The contest ran from 1996 to 2000. If search engines aren't finding it for you, you may have to examine the archive, note the ISO download.
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Thank you all so much! Hopefully those hints will help me. I sure miss those good ol' days...everything was new and exciting...
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Clutching at straws a bit here, could you possibly be thinking of TheDamian's obfuscated perl entry "SelfGOL", which plays (the other) Conway's "Game of Life" on itself? You can see it here for example.
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Thanks for posting. No, it was definitely the game of Go as the source code itself was used to draw a checked playing board with the two pieces placed diagonally in the middle and ready for the first move. If you printed out the code it would print a Go board with four pieces on it. And it actually ran and played a good game of Go! I had all of these cool things on old hard drives that all failed and this one stuck in my head is all, it is probably lost to history now...sad.
It *might* have been an entry to the obfuscated Perl contest that was part of the winners due to its code size, thus would only be in the printed magazine.
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