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BMCP, (Bare Minimum Chess Program)
a kind of chess playing engine by Maksim Korzh, written in C. BMCP is subject of a YouTube video tutorial from March 2019 . The open source program is published on GitHub , and provides an own user interface, but accepts illegal moves, while attempts to enter legal moves such as castling and en passant were not recognized as such, yielding in illegal moves made with the king and pawn. BMCP(JS) is a JavaScript port of BMCP .

See also

• BBC
• BMCP(JS)
• Micro-Max
• Vice

Forum Posts

• A tribute to chess programming community by Maksim Korzh, CCC, March 11, 2019
• Bare minimum chess program in javascript by Maksim Korzh, CCC, June 08, 2019

External Links

GitHub

• GitHub - maksimKorzh/bmcp: bare minimum chess program

YouTube

1. Part 1 - design and implementation overview
2. Part 2 - board representation & piece encoding » 0x88, Piece Coding
3. Part 3 - move generator » Move Generation
4. Part 4 - search & evaluation » Search, Evaluation
5. Part 5 - interaction with the user » User Interface
6. Part 6 - Code Monkey King plays against his own program

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