It is common to hear about gigantic chess programs running on giant supercomputers. But what is happening at the opposite end of the spectrum? What is the tiniest program someone can write that is able to chess? Turns out that it only takes a couple thousand characters to do it:

Toledo Nanochess

Even more amazing is a JavaScript version that is not much bigger. It is available for your enjoyment on this page (you are white):

Toledo Javascript Chess

Even better, he gives you the code (the JavaScript version is available in the page source as well).

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