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Recommended readings and viewings about computer chess programming.

Online Resources

• A Beginner's Guide to Chess Programming by Adam Oellermann
• Adam's Computer Chess Pages by Adam Hair
• Arasan Programmer's Guide by Jon Dart » Arasan
• ChessBin.com by Adam Berent
• Chess Programming by Russell Newman and Chris Moreton » Rival
• Chess Programming Part I: Getting Started by François-Dominic Laramée, gamedev.net, May 2000
• Chess Programming - Home by Thomas Petzke
• Computer Chess from the Parallel Computing Works ebook
• Computer Chess by Harm Geert Muller
• Computer Chess News by Alexander Schmidt
• Computer Chess Programming by Steve Maughan
• Computer Chess Programming Theory by Colin Frayn
• Computer Chess Sites by Paul Verhelst
• Computer-Chess Wiki by Ron Murawski
• G13GAM -- Game Theory -- computer chess notes by Andy Walker
• Games Playing with Computers by Alex Bell, hosted by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
• mACE Chess by Thomas Petzke iCE, mACE
• Mediocre Chess by Jonatan Pettersson » Mediocre
• Online technical papers by Robert Hyatt
• Programmer Corner by Ed Schroder (old) » Rebel
• Programmer corner by Ed Schroder
• Programming Topics by Bruce Moreland
• Strategy Game Programming by Martin Fierz
• Winglet, Writing a Chess Program in 99 Steps by Stef Luijten, Wayback Machine » Winglet

Viewings

• Chess Engine In C - YouTube Videos by BlueFeverSoft » Vice, C
• Programming A Javascript Chess Engine - YouTube Videos by BlueFeverSoft » JavaScript
• Simple Chess Engine in Java - Video Series by Jonathan Warkentin (Java)
• Advanced Chess Engine in Java - Video Series by Jonathan Warkentin (Java)

Papers

• Tony Marsland (1992). Computer Chess and Search. Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (2nd ed.) (ed. S.C. Shapiro) pp. 224-241. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY. ISBN 0-471-50305-3. pdf
• Marek Strejczek (2004). Some aspects of chess programming. Technical University of Łódź, Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Supervisor Maciej Szmit, zipped pdf, pdf

Booklists

• Booklist by Tom Likens
• Chess Psychology Booklist
• Computer Chess Books by Louis Kessler
• Computer Chess books reviews by Valentin Albillo

Books

• All the Right Moves, A VLSI Architecture for Chess. Carl Ebeling. MIT Press. 1986. 145 pages.
• Beautiful Mates: Applying Principles of beauty to Computer Chess Heuristics. Ben P. Walls. Dissertation.com. 1997. 115 pages.
• Behind Deep Blue. Feng-Hsiung Hsu. Princeton University Press. 2002. 300 pages.
• Chess and Computers. David Levy. Computer Science Press. 1976. 145 pages.
• Chess and Machine Intuition. George Atkinson. Intellect. 1998. 175 pages. Google books
• Chess Skill in Man and Machine. Edited by Peter W. Frey. Springer-Verlag. 1977. 217 pages.
• Computer Chess. Monroe Newborn. ACM Monograph Series. 1975. 200 pages.
• Computers, Chess, and Cognition. Edited by Tony Marsland and Jonathan Schaeffer. Springer-Verlag. 1990. 323 pages.
• Computers, Chess and Long Range Planning. Mikhail Botvinnik. The English Universities Press. 1970. 89 pages.
• Computer Chess Compendium by David Levy
• How Computers Play Chess by David Levy and Monty Newborn. Computer Science Press. 1990. 246 pages.
• Memory versus Search in Games, Dennis Breuker's Ph.D thesis
• New Architectures in Computer Chess, Fritz Reul's Ph.D. Thesis, June 2009, pdf
• Scalable Search in Computer Chess, Ernst A. Heinz. 1999. 268 pages
• The Machine Plays Chess? Alex G. Bell. Pergamon Press. 1978. 114 pages.
• The Chess Computer Handbook. David Levy. Batsford. 1984. 128 pages.

See also

• Papers lists all CPW pages referring papers and publications
• ICGA Journal
• Periodical
• Videos

Postings

• Excellent Computer-Chess Overview Paper Found! by Ernst A. Heinz, rgcc, March 6, 1997
• Computer Chess Books by Brian McKinley, CCC, August 07, 1998

References

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