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Recommended readings and viewings about computer chess programming.

Online Resources

• A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI by Lauri Hartikka, freeCodeCamp
• Adam's Computer Chess Pages by Adam Hair
• Arasan Programmer's Guide by Jon Dart » Arasan ¹
• Chess Programming by Russell Newman and Chris Moreton » Rival
• Chess Programming Part I: Getting Started by François-Dominic Laramée, gamedev.net, May 2000
• Chess Programming Part II: Data Structures by François-Dominic Laramée, gamedev.net, June 2000
• Chess Programming Part III: Move Generation by François-Dominic Laramée, gamedev.net, July 2000
• Chess Programming Part IV: Basic Search by François-Dominic Laramée, gamedev.net, Ausgust 2000
• Chess Programming Part V: Advanced Search by François-Dominic Laramée, gamedev.net, September 2000
• Chess Programming Part VI: Evaluation Functions by François-Dominic Laramée, gamedev.net, October 2000
• Chess Programming - Home by Thomas Petzke
• Computer Chess from the Parallel Computing Works ebook
• Computer Chess by Harm Geert Muller
• Computer Chess Programming by Steve Maughan
• Computer Chess Programming Theory by Colin Frayn
• Computer-Chess Wiki by Ron Murawski
• G13GAM -- Game Theory -- computer chess notes by Andy Walker (Wayback Machine)
• Games Playing with Computers by Alex Bell, hosted by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
• mACE Chess by Thomas Petzke » iCE, mACE
• Mediocre Chess by Jonatan Pettersson » Mediocre
• Online technical papers by Robert Hyatt
• Paul Verhelst's chess programming pages (Wayback Machine) » Paul Verhelst
• Programmer Corner by Ed Schroder (Wayback Machine) » Rebel ²
• Programmer corner by Ed Schroder
• Programming Topics by Bruce Moreland
• Strategy Game Programming by Martin Fierz
• Winglet, Writing a Chess Program in 99 Steps by Stef Luijten, (Wayback Machine) » Winglet

Viewings

• A Chess Engine in Go - YouTube Videos by CaroKanns » GoBit, Go (Programming Language)
• Advanced Chess Engine in Java - Video Series by Jonathan Warkentin » Java
• Chess Engine in C - YouTube Videos by BlueFeverSoft » Vice, C
• Chess Programming - Video Series by Maksim Korzh » BBC, C
• How Modern Chess Programs Work by Tord Romstad, May 2017, Vimeo Video
• Programming A Javascript Chess Engine - YouTube Videos by BlueFeverSoft » JavaScript
• Simple Chess Engine in Java - Video Series by Jonathan Warkentin »Java

Papers

• Tony Marsland (1992). Computer Chess and Search. Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (2nd ed.) (ed. S.C. Shapiro) pp. 224-241. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY. ISBN 0-471-50305-3. pdf ^{3 4}
• Marek Strejczek (2004). Some aspects of chess programming. M.Sc. thesis, Technical University of Łódź, Supervisor Maciej Szmit

Booklists

• Chess Psychology Booklist
• Computer Chess Books by Louis Kessler
• Computer Chess books reviews by Valentin Albillo (Wayback Machine)

Books

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1970 ...

• Mikhail Botvinnik (1970). Computers, Chess and Long Range Planning. The English Universities Press, 89 pages
• Monroe Newborn (1975). Computer Chess. ACM Monograph Series, 200 pages
• David Levy (1976). Chess and Computers. Computer Science Press, 145 pages
• Peter W. Frey (1977). Chess Skill in Man and Machine. Springer, 217 pages
• Alex G. Bell (1978). The Machine Plays Chess? Pergamon Press, 114 pages

1980 ...

• David Levy (1984). The Chess Computer Handbook. Batsford, 128 pages
• Carl Ebeling (1986). All the Right Moves, A VLSI Architecture for Chess. MIT Press, 145 pages
• David Levy (1988). Computer Chess Compendium. Batsford, 440 pages

1990 ...

• Tony Marsland, Jonathan Schaeffer (1990). Computers, Chess, and Cognition. Springer, 323 pages
• David Levy, Monty Newborn (1990). How Computers Play Chess. Computer Science Press, 246 pages
• Ben P. Walls (1997). Beautiful Mates: Applying Principles of Beauty to Computer Chess Heuristics. Dissertation.com, 115 pages
• George Atkinson (1998). Chess and Machine Intuition. Intellect, 175 pages
• Dennis Breuker (1998). Memory versus Search in Games. Ph.D thesis
• Ernst A. Heinz (1999). Scalable Search in Computer Chess. Morgan Kaufmann, Vieweg, 270 pages

2000 ...

• Feng-hsiung Hsu (2002). Behind Deep Blue. Princeton University Press, 300 pages
• Fritz Reul (2009). New Architectures in Computer Chess. Ph.D. thesis

2010 ...

• Monty Newborn (2011). Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere. Springer, 287 pages

See also

• ICGA Journal
• Periodical

Postings

Forum Posts

• Computer chess books by Bruce Moreland, rgcc, February 05, 1997
• Excellent Computer-Chess Overview Paper Found! by Ernst A. Heinz, rgcc, March 6, 1997
• Computer Chess Books by Brian McKinley, CCC, August 07, 1998

References