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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.
CPW was founded by Mark Lefler on October 26, 2007 [1], first hosted on Wikispaces [2]. Due to that site closure [3], it moved to its present new host at www.chessprogramming.org.
Up-To-Date Best Practices
Over time the Zeitgeist of the computer chess community moved on from usenet to bulletin boards to meanwhile chat groups like Discord channels. Computer chess programming is actively discussed in several Discord channels:
- Discord Channels by Srdja Matovic on CCC, October 11, 2023
- Discord Channels by Srdja Matovic on Eta Chess blog, February 21, 2024
Hot Topics
Topics people search/discuss much
Basics
- Getting Started - if you are new to chess programming
- Board Representation
- Search
- Evaluation
- Opening Book
- Endgame Tablebases
Principal Topics
Lists
- Cartoons
- Computer Chess Forums
- Conferences
- Dictionary
- Engines including the CPW-Engine
- Games, some other AI-Games, where computer chess may borrow some ideas
- Hardware
- History
- Organizations
- People
- Periodical
- Software
- Tournaments and Matches
Miscellaneous
Statistics
- Articles: 4,267
- Pages: 8,021
- Files: 2,968
Thanks
Thanks for visiting our site! We hope you like the work we have done.
Mark Lefler and the rest of the CPW team.
References
- ↑ Re: community test result web page? by Mark Lefler, CCC, October 26, 2007
- ↑ Wikispaces Chessprogramming - home (Wayback Machine, February 16, 2018)
- ↑ Chess Programming Wiki by Jon Dart, CCC, February 12, 2018