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The first article in a six-part series about programming computers to play chess, and by extension other similar strategy games of perfect information.
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GameDev.net Chess Programming Part I: Getting Started  This is the first article in a six-part series about programming computers to play chess, and by extension other similar strategy games of perfect information. Chess has been described as the Drosophila Melanogaster of artificial intelligence, in the sense that...
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/chess1/

A chapter from a book on programming chess, emphasizing parallel processing.
http://www.npac.syr.edu/copywrite/pcw/node341.html

45 links to information on computer chess programming (bottom section of this web page)
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Computer Chess Chess Engines (Winboard Chess Programming Info [Chessopolis Chess Links]  You will find commercial programs on the Software page. WBEC-Ridderkerk Maintains a list of Winboard-compatible engines with download links. Aldebaran Amyan Arasan Armageddon Averno BabyChess BACE (Source only you must compile) Beowulf Chess engine project with a goal of producing...
http://www.chessopolis.com/cchess.htm

Page of chess programming links and documents. Also contains links to other turn-based game programming.
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Computer Chess Programming  The book presents new results of computer-chess research in the areas of selective forward pruning, the efficient application of game-theoretical knowledge, and the behavior of the search at increasing depths. It shows how to make sophisticated game-tree searchers more scalable...
http://chess.verhelst.org/

Great site for programmers, has information on everything you need to understand a chess computers brain.
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Chess Programming Theory  Programming theory page has been moved In 5 seconds, you will be automatically redirected to the new site http www.frayn.net/beowulf/theory.html If you are not automatically redirected after 5 seconds, just click the link above....
http://www.chessbrain.net/beowulf/theory.html

Chess Tree Search - More useful information regarding chess programming methods.
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 The page you are looking for is not here. Try: http chess.verhelst.org/search.html If you are not redirected automatically within a few seconds then please click on the link above....
http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/search.html

Short and brief introduction to Chess programming, providing basic methods of how computers play chess.
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AI Horizon: Introduction to Chess Programming and AI  Ever since the old days of punch-card computers, people have been fascinated with chess-playing programs, and no wonder. If they can create a computer that can outsmart humans in this obviously strategic, thinking-based game, then it would be a major...
http://www.aihorizon.com/essays/chessai/intro_print.htm

Offers downloads of the free gaming engine.
http://www.zipproth.com/chess/

GNUChess programming with GNU versions for Atari, Mac, Windows, Unix. Also contains other games that are using chess programming techniques. Java, C, C++ source code included for all games.
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GNUChess  This page is pure computer chess (GNU Chess and alike Go back to the Artificial Intelligence page for the rest of computer chess programming and more general topics. Further down on this page you will find other chess programs. Please...
http://users.telenet.be/artifici...intelligence/chess/gnuchess.html

Promotes computer chess programming, holds competitions with "computer" players, and publishes a quarterly journal.
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ICGA: ICGA Home Page  Call for papers is now out Fotos and pictures from the 10th Computer Olympiade in Taipei, Taiwan held from 3-9 September are now avialable ICGA Home Page Welcome to the ICGA website: A welcome from the President. This site, representing...
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/icga/

Reference material, programming techniques, endgame databases, and computer game research for chess programming.
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Computer Chess Programming Blog Archive Chess Tree Search  Tree search is one of the central algorithms of any game playing program. The term is based on looking at all possible game positions as a tree, with the legal game moves forming the branches of this tree. The leaves...
http://chess.verhelst.org/1997/03/10/search/

Chess engine per winboard and windows. Delphi source code is availible and also contains a link page with chess programming documents.
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GEKO CHESS ENGINE freeware program  Delphi source visitors from Jan 2003 Thanks to Slobodan Stojanovic for accurate debug and David Dahlem for logo. Clicca qui per iscriverti al g_6 Description Geko is a chess engine for winboard, GekoChess 3D is a chess engine for Windows...
http://www.geocities.com/gekochess/

Categorized links to chess programming resources, SSDF (Swedish Chess Computer Association) rating list.
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It is all about Computer Chess  View the games or final standings Year Host Winner Programmers Country 2005 Reykjavik, Iceland Zappa Anthony Cozzie USA 2004 Ramat-Gan, Israel Junior Ban Bushinsky Israel 2003 Graz, Austria Shredder Meyer-Kahlen Germany 2002 Maastricht, Belgium Junior Ban Bushinsky Israel 1999 Paderborn,...
http://www.chesspatterns.com/

Popular message board discussing anything and everything relating to Computer Chess Programming. Registration required.
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Chess Message Boards  Click here to sign up for our free message boards Forgot your Username and/or Password? Click here! The Computer-Chess Club Discussion of anything and everything relating to chess playing software and machines. Click on the links below to read the...
http://www.talkchess.com

A series of essays on computer chess topics written by Bruce Moreland.
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Programming Topics  This page will contain links to a series of essays on computer chess topics, as I have time to write them. The topics are oriented toward those who want to write their own chess program, or understand how chess programs...
http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/topics.htm

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

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.
http://www.frayn.net/beowulf/index.html

Great site for programmers, contains quality information on various programming topics.
http://www.frayn.net/beowulf/theory.html