How to Write a Bitboard Chess Engine: How Chess Programs Work
How to Write a Bitboard Chess Engine: How Chess Programs Work
by FM Bill Jordan
English | 2022 | ASIN: B08BDZ2K8B | 200 Pages | PDF (conv) | 0.88 MB
by FM Bill Jordan
English | 2022 | ASIN: B08BDZ2K8B | 200 Pages | PDF (conv) | 0.88 MB
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 compiled using a freely downloadable compiler.
You can alter the code and see if you can make it stronger.