## Description
_Bootchess_ is a playable chess program only 487 bytes in size. It is
designed to run from a floppy disk boot sector (512 bytes), not requiring any
operating system.
The game was created to beat the record of the smallest playable chess
program, held for over 30 years by 1K ZX Chess, created by David R. Horne,
which required 672 bytes to run the program on a ZX81.
The game features the chess board as text characters (small caps for black,
large ones for white) and can be controlled by entering the moves in chess
notation (“e7e5”). The program knows pawn single and double moves and queen
transfer, but lacks the king castling. Despite the size, even an computer
controlled opponent is included — although the capabilities of the AI are
limited.
Bootchess