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• Computers: Programming: Games  (213)

The Anatomy of Chess Programs - - An introduction to how computers play chess.

Aristarch - - Offers downloads of the free gaming engine.

The Beowulf Chess Engine Homepage - - 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.

Chess Tree Search - - Chess Tree Search - More useful information regarding chess programming methods.

Chessopolis: Computer Chess - - 45 links to information on computer chess programming (bottom section of this web page.

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

14.3 Computer Chess - - A chapter from a book on programming chess, emphasizing parallel processing.

Computer chess / GNU chess, chess programming - - 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 - - Page of chess programming links and documents. Also contains links to other turn-based game programming.

Computer Chess Programming Theory - - Great site for programmers, contains quality information on various programming topics.

GameDev.net -- Chess Programming Part I: Getting Started - - 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 - - Chess engine per winboard and windows. Delphi source code is availible and also contains a link page with chess programming documents.

International Computer Games Association - - Promotes computer chess programming, holds competitions with "computer" players, and publishes a quarterly journal.

Introduction to Chess Programming - - Short and brief introduction to Chess programming, providing basic methods of how computers play chess.

Programming Topics - - A series of essays on computer chess topics written by Bruce Moreland.

Robert Hyatt's Home Page - - High quality chess programming papers from the inventor of rotated bitboards and the author of Crafty, a popular open source chess engine.

TalkChess.com - - Popular message board discussing anything and everything relating to Computer Chess Programming. Registration required.

Tim Mann's Chess Pages - - Tim Mann's chess pages, author of XBoard and WinBoard user interfaces.