The July 2003 version of Rebel 12 will fit on a 1.44 if you take out the
manual. It is THE most powerful Dos program there is. I still have it and
will send it to you if you wish.

"Bob Newell" wrote in message
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Seriously - could anyone recommend what they feel is the best small
chess playing program that runs under good old MS-DOS? By "small" I
mean that the program and all necessary files can be contained in a zip
archive of roughly 1 MB.


Why? I want to build a bootable floppy that is for chess and chess alone.
Something that can be carried around and used anywhere. (I've done a
number of these for various applications.)

Any suggestions much appreciated.

Chuck says...

I want to build a bootable floppy that is for chess and chess alone.
Something that can be carried around and used anywhere. (I've done a
number of these for various applications.)

You *could* build a bootable Linux floppy that is for chess and
chess alone...

My first good attempt succeeded in getting both Fritz 3 and Sargon V on a
bootable DOS floppy. I'm fine-tuning it but it works amazingly well and
provides a lot of chess playing power in a very small package.

I'm looking at other bootable combinations as well. Again many thanks
to the respondents, both public and private.