Web Directory

» Chess Programming Wiki
   The Chess Programming Wiki is a repository of information about programming computers to play chess.
   http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/

» Chess Tree Search
   Chess Tree Search - More useful information regarding chess programming methods.
   http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/search.html

» ChessPatterns
   Categorized links to chess programming resources, SSDF (Swedish Chess Computer Association) rating list.
   http://www.chesspatterns.com/

» Chessbin.com
   Blog that follows the creation of a free chess engine, game downloads, and a C# chess engine starter kit.
   http://www.chessbin.com

» Chessopolis: Computer Chess
   Links to programming tutorials and freeware chess engines.
   http://www.chessopolis.com/cchess.htm

» Computer Chess Programming
   Page of chess programming links and documents. Also contains links to other turn-based game programming.
   http://chess.verhelst.org/

» GameDev.net -- Chess Programming Part I: Getting Started
   The first article in a six-part series about programming computers to play chess, and by extension other similar strategy games of perfect information.
   http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/chess1/

» Geko Chess Engine
   Chess engine for Winboard and Windows. Delphi source code is available and also includes a link page with chess programming documents.
   https://sites.google.com/site/gekochess/

» Gray Matter Chess Engine
   Gray Matter is a pedagogical chess engine, written in C++, using an MTD(f) move search and rotated BitBoards, and running under XBoard and WinBoard.
   http://code.google.com/p/gray-matter/

» Introduction to Chess Programming
   Short and brief introduction to Chess programming, providing basic methods of how computers play chess.
   http://www.aihorizon.com/essays/chessai/intro_print.htm

» Linux and chess
   A site dedicated to working and programming chess related software on linux and chess enthusiasts that use linux and computer chess related software. It will provide help and information on configuring and running chess software and computer chess tournam
   http://www.linuxchess.org

» Mediocre Chess
   Computer Chess blog that documents a creation of an open source Java Chess engine.
   http://mediocrechess.blogspot.com/

» OnJava.com Article on BitBoards
   Article about bitboards implemented in Java.
   http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/02/02/bitsets.html

» Robert Hyatt's Home Page
   High quality chess programming papers from the inventor of rotated bitboards and the author of Crafty, a popular open source chess engine.
   http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/hyatt/pubs.html

» TalkChess
   Popular message board discussing anything and everything relating to Computer Chess Programming. Registration required.
   http://www.talkchess.com

» The Anatomy of Chess Programs
   An introduction to how computers play chess.
   http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/ICCA/anatomy.html

» The Beowulf Chess Engine Homepage
   Beowulf Chess Engine was used in the world-record holding ChessBrain project. The instructive source code for the engine is open and free to download.
   http://www.frayn.net/beowulf/index.html

» The Rebel Chess Program
   Information about the Rebel chess program. Also includes a section on chess programming and theory.
   http://members.home.nl/matador/chess.htm

» Tim Mann's Chess Pages
   Tim Mann's chess pages, author of XBoard and WinBoard user interfaces.
   http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html

» Toledo Nanochess
   A collection of tiny chess programs ingeniously written in C and Javascript.
   http://nanochess.110mb.com

» WBEC-Ridderkerk
   Computer chess engine competition, news and download page.
   http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/