Computer Chess Programming

This is my personal collection of (pointers to) information about computer chess programming. I intend to add more information in the future.

• Reference Material
  
  
  
  • Computer Chess Books
  
  
  • Computer Chess Journals
  
  
  • Computer Chess Publications
  
  


• Programming Techniques
  
  
  
  • Chess Board Representations
  
  
  • Chess Tree Search
  
  
  • Chess Program Sources
  
  


• Endgame databases, see A guide to Endgames Tablebase.
  
  
  
  • Ken Thompson (ken@entrisphere.com) has distributed three volumes on CD ROM with a number of 5 piece endgame databases. They seem no longer to be available. There are some commercial distributions of the same CD ROMs, but I have no pointers at the moment.
  
  
  • Steven Edwards is creating a series of endgame databases. They are available from ftp://darkside.its-s.tudelft.nl/Crafty/TB/.
  
  
  • Malinov’s endgame tablebases are available from http://www.chesslib.no/Nalimov.htm
  
  


• Computer Game Research
  
  • Computer Game Research Groups and People
  
  

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