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Pages with information on programming techniques for software that plays chess, analyzes chess, etc.

Resources in This Category

• Chess Programming Wiki

  http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/
  The Chess Programming Wiki is a repository of information about programming computers to play chess.

• Chessbin.com

  http://www.chessbin.com/
  Blog that follows the creation of a free chess engine, game downloads, and a C# chess engine starter kit.

• Chessopolis: Computer Chess

  http://www.chessopolis.com/computer-chess/
  Links to programming tutorials and freeware chess engines.

• ChessWar

  http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar/
  Computer chess engine tournament called Open War.

• Gray Matter Chess Engine

  http://code.google.com/p/gray-matter/
  Gray Matter is a pedagogical chess engine, written in C++, using an MTD(f) move search and rotated BitBoards, and running under XBoard and WinBoard.

• Introduction to Chess Programming

  http://www.aihorizon.com/essays/chessai/intro_print.htm
  Short and brief introduction to Chess programming, providing basic methods of how computers play chess.

• Mediocre Chess

  http://mediocrechess.blogspot.com/
  Computer Chess blog that documents a creation of an open source Java Chess engine.

• OnJava.com Article on BitBoards

  http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/02/02/bitsets.html
  Article about bitboards implemented in Java.

• TalkChess

  http://www.talkchess.com/
  Popular message board discussing anything and everything relating to Computer Chess Programming. Registration required.

• The Anatomy of Chess Programs

  http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/ICCA/anatomy.html
  An introduction to how computers play chess.

• The Beowulf Chess Engine Homepage

  http://www.frayn.net/beowulf/
  Beowulf Chess Engine was used in the world-record holding ChessBrain project. The instructive source code for the engine is open and free to download.

• The Rebel Chess Program

  http://members.home.nl/matador/chess.htm
  Information about the Rebel chess program. Also includes a section on chess programming and theory.

• Tim Mann's Chess Pages

  http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html
  Tim Mann's chess pages, author of XBoard and WinBoard user interfaces.

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