Programmers have to say that the most compact chess program ever written. The code of BootChess consists of only 487 bytes, where the previous record holder, still 672 bytes needed to make a working chess program.
In 1983 by David Horne 1K ZX Chess was released. This schaaksoftware used on a Sinclair ZX81-homecomputer 672 bytes of ram and was, for decades, the record holder as the most compact schaaksoftware ever written. But the record has now killed: programmers of the group Red Sector Inc., active in the demoscene, have BootChess written, named their chess computer which the code is 487 bytes counts.
The code of BootChess is written in assembler. BootChess is a multiplatform game, can boot from a bootsector and shows the user an extremely barren chessboard. The player must, by means of typed commands the pawns on the board to oppose it. Some developers BootChess have tried out propose, however, that the schaaksoftware still a number of errors which it is not a fully and correctly functioning schaaksoftware called should be.
