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The Chess Programming Wiki is a repository of information about programming computers to play chess. Our goal is to provide a reference for every aspect of chess-programming, information about programmers, researcher and engines. You'll find different ways to implement LMR and bitboard stuff like best magics for most dense magic bitboard tables. For didactic purposes, the CPW-Engine has been developed by some wiki members. You can start browsing using the left-hand navigation bar. All of our content is arranged hierarchically, so you can see every page by following just those links. If you are looking for a specific page or catchword you can use the search box on top. You will notice updating progress almost daily.

CPW was founded by Mark Lefler on October 26, 2007 , first hosted on Wikispaces . Due to that site closure , it moved to its present new host at www.chessprogramming.org.

Hot Topics

Topics people search/discuss much

• Stockfish
• NNUE
• Leela Chess Zero
• Syzygy Bases

Basics

• Getting Started - if you are new to chess programming
• Board Representation
• Search
• Evaluation
• Opening Book
• Endgame Tablebases

Principal Topics

• Chess
• Programming
• Artificial Intelligence
• Knowledge
• Learning
• Testing
• Tuning
• User Interface
• Protocols

Lists

• Cartoons
• Computer Chess Forums
• Conferences
• Dictionary
• Engines including the CPW-Engine
  • Dedicated Chess Computers
  • Engine Releases
• Games, some other AI-Games, where computer chess may borrow some ideas
• Hardware
• History
• Organizations
• People
• Periodical
• Software
• Tournaments and Matches

Miscellaneous

• Acknowledgments
• Recommended Reading

Statistics

• Articles: 4,253
• Pages: 7,991
• Files: 2,963

Thanks

Thanks for visiting our site! We hope you like the work we have done.

Mark Lefler and the rest of the CPW team.