Computer Chess Programming

This section lists a number of chess programs. I have only included programs for which sources are available.

• AliBaba (ftp://ftp.cs.rulimburg.nl/pub/software/breuker)
  Dennis Breuker’s testbed for experiments with heuristics in Alpha-Beta searching.


• Arasan (http://www.arasanchess.org/)
  Jon Dart’s Windows program written in C++, since version 6.0 also under Linux.


• Chenard (http://cosinekitty.com/chenard)
  Don Cross’s chess program written in C++. It runs under DOS and Windows 95/NT.


• Belofte (http://www.internetcontact.be/~macchess/dev-belofte.html)
  Still in development, for Linux, Mac, and Windows.


• Crafty (ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt, mirror: ftp://darkside.its-s.tudelft.nl/Crafty/)
  Robert Hyatt’s successor to Cray Blitz for Unix and DOS. Robert Hyatt is a frequent contributor to the rec.games.chess.computer news group. This program is a living illustration of the points he makes there. Crafty illustrates the use of bitboards, aspiration search, killer, history, null move heuristic, transposition table, and search extensions.
  There is a Crafty mailing list at JPUnix.com.
  To subscribe, send a mail message with body “subscribe” to
  [email protected].
  
  
  
  • Installing Crafty under Linux
  
  
  • Macintosh port of Crafty
  
  


• The Crazy Bishop (http://remi.coulom.free.fr/)
  Remi Coulom’s freeware chess program for DOS and Windows 95/NT. Only the C++ source for the basic chess library is available.


• EXchess (http://quasar.astro.brandeis.edu/BRAG/people/dch.html)
  Dan Homan’s chess program for DOS and Windows 95/NT written in C++.


• GNU chess (ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu)
  This program is written in C and is irregularly updated. The most recent version can always be found at FTP sites that carry GNU software. It is originally meant for Unix systems, but ports are available for
  
  
  
  • Amiga (ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/Amiga)
  
  
  • DOS (ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/DOS)
  
  
  • Macintosh (ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/Macintosh)
  
  
  • OS/2 (ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/OS2)
  
  
  • Windows (ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/Win3)
  
  


• Jose http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/)
  A chess database frontend written in Java.
  
• KC Chess (http://www.csbruce.com/~csbruce/chess/)
  Craig Bruce and Kevin Philips’s chess program written in Turbo Pascal for their undergraduate final project.


• KnightCap (http://samba.anu.edu.au/KnightCap/)
  Andrew Tridgell’s chess program written for the Fujitsu AP1000+ parallel computer (running AP/Linux). It will also run on most unixes.


• Notchess (ftp://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/maths/staff/anw/chess/Notchess)
  A demonstration program for a
  course in game theory.


• Pepito (http://www.winboardengines.de/pepito/)


• Phalanx (http://dusan.freeshell.org/phalanx/)


• SAN (ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/Unix)
  Steven Edward’s library plus program for handling Standard Algebraic Notation.


• Scid (http://scid.sourceforge.net/)
  A chess database for Unix X11 and Windows.


• SCP (ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/Unix)
  Stanbeck Chess Program.


• Sjeng (http://sjeng.org/indexold.html)
  Chess program for Linux, Mac, and Windows that also plays bughouse and crazyhouse.


• SSEChess (http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/slutzksn/chess.html)
  Sam Slutzky’s chess program for DOS, Windows 95, and Linux written in Pascal.


• TSCP (http://www.frii.com/~kerrigan/)
  Tom Kerrigan’s simple chess program.


• XBoard (http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html)
  A graphical user interface running under Unix X11 for various console based chess programs.
  


• ZZZZZZ (ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/Unix)
  Gijsbert Wiesenekker’s chess program written in C.

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