Computer Chess Programming
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The Joy of Chess Programming
Author: F. M. Bill Jordan
language: en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date: 2019-11-11
The Joy of Chess Programming This is a memoir of my experiences with creating my own chess engine. It begins with first experiences with computer chess from books, magazines, movies and dedicated chess computers. It progresses to when I had enough knowledge to write an amateur engine and was able to compete in computer chess tournaments. Eventually my engine was strong enough to reach about 2400 ELO strength. It is able to find Bobby Fischer's ...Be6 in the famous Game of the Century in a fraction of a second. It gives insights into how chess engines work and how they select a move. There are numerous tips on how we human players can learn from how computers play. There are a number of reasons why you may be interested in how a chess program is written. If so, you may be interested in my bookHow to Write a Chess Program. I have another book on computer chess called Think Like a Computer which includes a number of games with engines playing engines at a shallow depth. This illustrates how engines evaluate positions.
The Joy of Computer Chess
Teaches Chess Players the Principles of Chess Programming & How the Computer "Decides" which Move to Make. Teaches How to Write Their Own Chess Programs
How to Write a JavaScript Chess Engine
There are a number of reasons why you may be interested in how a chess program is written: You are learning programming and interested in learning something different. You are a programmer who is interesting in developing their programming experience. You are a chess enthusiast and would like to improve your chess by learning how chess programs work. You are interested in developing a chess program and playing against it. You are interested in developing a chess program and having it play other engines. You do need to be an expert programmer to understand this book.The code is written as simply as possible.The code is designed to be simple even for intermediate and even novice programmers. If you are not a programmer, but am interested in chess, this book may be of interest. The book includes annotation of the source code for a complete chess engine the author has developed as a teaching tool.The complete source code is available at GitHub. The program can be edited with any text editor and run on a web page.You can alter the code and see if you can make it stronger. The program is a derivative of my program referred to in my earlier book How to Write a BitBoard Chess Engine. The engine is strong enough to beat most social players. Features of the engine include: It can play a human or itself. It has the ability to load positions. It is reasonably fast. It displays the best line of play for both sides. Detects checkmate. Detects draws by repetition, 50 move rule, stalemate or reduction of material. EvaluationThe engine evaluates elements of a position including: Material. Piece position. King safety. Pawn structure. Passed pawns etc SearchThe engine uses a standard alpha-beta minimax search including: Cut offs. Move ordering. History moves, Hash tables. Extensions. Reductions. Capture search. And much more... My other books on computer chess are How to Write a Chess Program, The Joy of Chess Programming, How to Write a Bitboard chess Engine and Think Like a Computer.