Links

Sections:

Talks
Interviews
Tiny chess programs in C
Other tiny chess programs
18th IOCCC
19th IOCCC
20th IOCCC
Computer chess related

Here I've collected links of all around the world, including the first complete list of tiny chess programs, hard to find information about the IOCCC, links related to chess, and some mentions of my programs, magazine reports and interviews.

Talks

In Nov/16/2018 I gave a talk part 1, part 2, at the ESIME about the developing of simple yet fun games. (Spanish)
In Aug/31/2018 I gave a talk about how to program an Intellivision game in one hour (in Spanish) at the Engineering Faculty of the UNAM.
In Nov/15/2017 I gave a talk at the ESIME (Superior School of Engineering, Mechanics and Electricity) about the structure of videogames. (Spanish)
In Sep/07/2017 I gave a talk at the Engineering Faculty of UNAM at Mexico City, related to the development of games for classic consoles (Spanish)
In Mar/18/2017 I gave a talk at the Centro de Cultura Digital at Mexico City, related to the Development of games for classic consoles (Spanish)
In Dec/05/2015 I gave a talk at the 48th MSX Users' Meeting at Barcelona, Spain, related to the development of my Mecha 9 game "From Nemesis to Mecha 9: A 30 years adventure" (Spanish)

Interviews

I've been interviewed by Rodrigo Diaz Concha about the development of games for Intellivision. (Spanish audio)
I've been interviewed by Homebrew Legends.
I've been interviewed by Mario Carballo @afk_mcz for the podcast Detras del Pixel episode 13: nanochess (Spanish audio).
Interview by Tim Duarte for 2600connection.com.
Intellivisionaries podcast 25 talks about my game Space Raid and includes an interview with me.
An interview about Princess Quest in 22 pages appears in Côte Gamers vol. 2.
In Dec/12/2015 I gave a talk in the Score VG 96 web radio with my brother for a talk about my MSX games, hosted by Artemio Urbina and friends (Spanish).
I was interviewed because of Toledo Atomchess for the article "The bitter rivalry behind the world's smallest chess program" by Chris Stokel-Walker.
In Mar/29/2015 the Atomix magazine published an interview «Oscar Toledo: la magia de crear para la vieja escuela» (Spanish) made by @netoman.
In Nov/01/2014 the podcast Del bit a la orquesta published an interview where I spoke of Princess Quest y Mecha-8 (Spanish).
In Feb/13/2014 Deus Ex Machina published an interview «Óscar Toledo: Desarrollador retroindie» (Spanish) authored by @retromaquinitas.
In Nov/10/2013 I've been mentioned in Oldschool is beautiful, episode 11 (French) because of my retro games.
In Feb/18/2013 I've appeared some seconds in a TV/Radio interview because of my developments at Familia Toledo organization. Emitted through Mexico TeleFormula in cable TV channel 121.
The Siliconchess forum made me an interview about Toledo Nanochess (in Spanish.)
I've appeared in Mexican TV channel 22, in "La Oveja Electrica" Aug/18/2010 program (video with audio in Spanish) in a two minutes' capsule, demonstrating a computer developed by Familia Toledo organization, you can see PCB design, desktop publishing, Internet browser and operating system, all these software have my contribution :)
My sister appeared in "La Oveja Electrica" Sep/01/2010 program (video with audio in Spanish) in a two minutes' capsule, demonstrating a metal detector sold by Familia Toledo organization.
Reforma newspaper, "Winning was not in his program", Nov/29/2005. (in Spanish) (now not available online)

Tiny chess programs in C

Toledo Nanochess, from Mexico, by Óscar Toledo G.
Micromax, from the Netherlands, by H.G. Muller.
Chess from California, USA, by Vern Paxson, comments and Makefile, from the 9th IOCCC, needs preprocessing with SED. Here is a cleaned version by Pavel Semjanov commented in Russian. Limited but amazing in several ways.
Chess, from the Netherlands, by Dennis Gruijs.

Other tiny chess programs

Tiny Chess in Javascript in 1 KB, from Mexico, by Óscar Toledo G.
Toledo Javascript Chess in 2.2 KB, from Mexico, by Óscar Toledo G.
Toledo Java Chess in 3.8 KB, from Mexico, by Óscar Toledo G.
Toledo Atomchess in 481 bytes of x86 code, from México, by Óscar Toledo G.
Javascript Chess, from New Zealand, by Douglas Bagnall, versions from 4 KB to 6 KB.
Microchess, from Canada, written by Peter Jennings in 1976, only 1 KB of 6502 machine code!. Playable online.
ZX-81 Chess, from United Kingdom, written by David Horne in 1983, only 1 KB of Z80 machine code!. Playable online (requires Java).
Hungry Dragon, written by MTV Europe in 2002, 1512 bytes of Befunge'93.
Bootchess, written by Red Sector, 487 bytes of x86 code, makes illegal moves.

Note that some of these small chess programs doesn't check for illegal moves, or doesn't allow castling or en passant.

18th IOCCC

Winners list of the 18th IOCCC.
Source code of all winners of the 18th IOCCC.

19th IOCCC

Winners list of the 19th IOCCC.
EDAMAME award entry by Michael Birken, with complete documentation.

20th IOCCC

Winners list of the 20th IOCCC.

Computer chess related

ChessWar/OpenWar by Olivier Deville, tournaments between hundreds of chess engines, with score lists and games available in PGN format.
Chess programs encyclopaedia, lists all known chess programs, including standalone programs and WinBoard/UCI engines.
Leo Dijksman's WBEC Ridderkerk, continuous news about new chess engines and updates.
The Chess Programming Wiki, useful information and resources for chess programmers.
Pedro Castro's collection of Hispanic Chess Engines (Spanish).
Talkchess, a good place to talk about everything related to chess engines, tournaments and chess programming.

Last modified: Apr/23/2021