A list of computer chess books. ADV77 M.R.B. Clarke (editor) Advances in Computer Chess Edinburgh University Press, 1977 ISBN 0-85224-292-1 ADV86 D.F. Beal (editor) Advances in Computer Chess 4 Pergamon Press, 1986 ISBN 0-08-029763-3 ADV89 D.F. Beal (editor) Advances in Computer Chess 5 Elsevier Science Publishing, 1989 ISBN 0-444-87159-4 […]
Chess Program Sources
This section lists a number of chess programs. I have only included programs for which sources are available. AliBaba (ftp://ftp.cs.rulimburg.nl/pub/software/breuker) Dennis Breuker’s testbed for experiments with heuristics in Alpha-Beta searching. Arasan (http://www.arasanchess.org/) Jon Dart’s Windows program written in C++, since version 6.0 also under Linux. Chenard (http://www.intersrv.com/~dcross/chenard.html) Don Cross’s chess program written […]
Portable Game Notation
Standard: Portable Game Notation Specification and Implementation Guide Revised: 1994.03.12 Authors: Interested readers of the Internet newsgroup rec.games.chess Coordinator: Steven J. Edwards (send comments to sje@world.std.com) 0: Preface From the Tower of Babel story: If now, while they are one people, all speaking the same language, they have started to do this, nothing will later […]
Forsyth-Edwards Notation
Section 16.1 from Portable Game Notation. FEN is “Forsyth-Edwards Notation”; it is a standard for describing chess positions using the ASCII character set. A single FEN record uses one text line of variable length composed of six data fields. The first four fields of the FEN specification are the same as the first four fields of […]
