Developer(s) Oscar Toledo Gutiérrez | Type Chess engine | |
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Website www.nanochess.org/chess3.html | ||
Toledo Nanochess is a chess engine developed by Mexican Oscar Toledo Gutiérrez, a five-time winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC). In accordance with IOCCC rules, it is 1255 characters long. The author claims that it is the world's smallest chess program written in C.
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The source code for Toledo Nanochess and other engines is available. Because Toledo Nanochess is based on Toledo's winning entry from the 18th IOCCC (Best Game), it is heavily obfuscated. On February 2, 2014, the author published the book Toledo Nanochess: The commented source code, which contains the fully commented source code.
As of February 7, 2010, it appears to be one of only two chess engines written in less than 2 kilobytes of C that are able to play full legal chess moves, along with Micro-Max by Dutch physicist H.G. Muller. In 2014 the 1 kilobyte barrier has been broken by Super Micro Chess[1] - a derivative of Micro-Max - totaling 760 characters (spaces and newlines included).