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JavaScript is a dynamically typed programming language with a prototype-based object system. It is interesting because it runs in web browsers and has received more than its fair share of optimization effort. Modern JavaScript engines with JIT compilation can play chess well enough to be interesting.

=See also=
 * JavaScript Engines
 * Stockfish Evaluation Guide
 * Zobrist Hashing - Lack a True Integer Type

=Forum Posts=

2011 ...

 * Javascript port of Stockfish by David Whitten, CCC, October 24, 2011
 * Engine In Javascript by bluefever, OpenChess Forum, July 12, 2013
 * JSUCI 1.0 - connect javascript chess engines to UCI by Edmund Moshammer, CCC, March 28, 2014 » UCI

2015 ...

 * Stockfish in Lozza UIs by Colin Jenkins, CCC, January 07, 2015 » Lozza, Stockfish-js
 * Javascript/WebGL 3D board (MIT lic) by Colin Jenkins, CCC,
 * ChessGUI (current version) and JavaScript engines part I by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, August 23, 2017 » ChessGUI
 * JavaScript Pawn Bitboard (with 32 bit integers) by Tamás Kuzmics, CCC, September 17, 2017
 * tomitankChess - New JavaScript engine by Tamás Kuzmics, CCC, September 17, 2017 » tomitankChess
 * best board representation for variants (javascript) ? by Mahmoud Uthman, CCC, December 10, 2017 » Board Representation, Chess Variants
 * github pages by Colin Jenkins, CCC, March 07, 2019

=External Links=
 * JavaScript from Wikipedia
 * Node.js from Wikipedia
 * Programming A Javascript Chess Engine - YouTube Videos by BlueFeverSoft
 * Stockfish Evaluation Guide » Stockfish Evaluation Guide

Repos

 * GitHub - cosinekitty/flywheel: A chess engine for the web browser by Don Cross
 * GitHub - douglasbagnall/p4wn: a smallish turn-of-the-century javascript chess engine by Douglas Bagnall » p4wn
 * GitHub - ebemunk/chess-dataviz: chess visualization library written for d3.js by Buğra Fırat » Match Statistics, Portable Game Notation
 * GitHub - ebemunk/node-uci: UCI Protocol for node.js - talk to chess engines painlessly by Buğra Fırat » UCI
 * GitHub - exoticorn/stockfish-js: UCI chess engine compiled to Javascript » Stockfish-js
 * GitHub - imor/uci: A thin wrapper on a uci chess engine » UCI
 * GitHub - jtiscione/chessboard3js: WebGL chessboard library » 3D Graphics Board
 * GitHub - jhlywa/chess.js: A Javascript chess library for chess move generation/validation, piece placement/movement, and check/checkmate/draw detection
 * GitHub - nmrugg/stockfish.js: The Stockfish chess engine in Javascript » Stockfish-js
 * GitHub - oakmac/chessboardjs: JavaScript chessboard » 2D Graphics Board
 * GitHub - op12no2/lozza: A simple Javascript UCI chess engine by Colin Jenkins
 * Javascript Universal Chess Interface | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net by Edmund Moshammer » UCI

Online GUI

 * Play Lozza online
 * chessboard3.js by Jason Tiscione

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