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

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

Chess Tree Search - http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/search.html
Chess Tree Search - More useful information regarding chess programming methods.

Chessopolis: Computer Chess - http://www.chessopolis.com/cchess.htm
45 links to information on computer chess programming (bottom section of this web page)

ChessPatterns - http://www.chesspatterns.com/
Categorized links to chess programming resources, SSDF (Swedish Chess Computer Association) rating list.

Computer chess / GNU chess, chess programming - http://users.telenet.be/artificialintelligence/chess/gnuchess.html
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.

Computer Chess Programming - http://chess.verhelst.org/
Page of chess programming links and documents. Also contains links to other turn-based game programming.

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

GameDev.net -- Chess Programming Part I: Getting Started - http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/chess1/
The first article in a six-part series about programming computers to play chess, and by extension other similar strategy games of perfect information.

Geko Chess Engine - http://www.geocities.com/gekochess/
Chess engine for Winboard and Windows. Delphi source code is available and also contains a link page with chess programming documents.

International Computer Games Association - http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/icga/
Promotes computer chess programming, holds competitions with "computer" players, and publishes a quarterly journal.

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.

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

Programming Topics - http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/topics.htm
A series of essays on computer chess topics written by Bruce Moreland.

Robert Hyatt's Home Page - http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/hyatt/pubs.html
High quality chess programming papers from the inventor of rotated bitboards and the author of Crafty, a popular open source chess engine.

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/index.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.

The Rebel Chess Program - http://members.home.nl/matador/chess.htm
Information about the Rebel chess program. Also contains 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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