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

Aristarch Offers downloads of the free gaming engine. http://www.zipproth.de/chess/

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

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

Chessopolis: Computer Chess 45 links to information on computer chess programming (bottom section of this web page) http://www.chessopolis.com/cchess.htm

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

Computer chess / GNU chess, chess programming GNUChess programming with GNU versions for Atari, Mac, Windows, Unix. Also contains other games that are using chess programming techniques. Java, C, C++ source code included for all games. http://users.telenet.be/artificialintelligence/chess/gnuchess.html

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

Computer Chess Programming Theory Great site for programmers, contains quality information on various programming topics. http://www.frayn.net/beowulf/theory.html

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. http://www.geocities.com/gekochess/

International Computer Games Association Promotes computer chess programming, holds competitions with "computer" players, and publishes a quarterly journal. http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/icga/

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

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

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

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