Chess
Links
http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html
Tim Mann is the author of Winboard (a free graphical interface to allow
computer programs to play against each other), also information on: GNU
Chess, XBoard, WinBoard, Crafty, Internet Chess Servers, Zippy, Chess
Web Sites, Chess FTP Sites, and more.
http://www.playwitharena.com/
Arena is another free graphical interface for computer chess programs.
Arena supports the winboard and UCI protocols and has a lot of extra
features.
http://www.wbec-ridderkerk.nl/
This is probably the most famous tournament for chess engines.
http://www.freechess.org/
FICS is a Free Internet Chess Server.
http://www.chesscube.com/
Another Free Internet Chess Server with a Java interface. Not
so many opponents, but at least they're all human!
http://gameknot.com/
For those who only have a few minutes per day to play online chess.
http://www.chessville.com/
Chessville has a lot of chess related stuff. You can also subscribe to
their newsletter.
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html
The week in chess is a chess news site.
http://www.limunltd.com/crafty/
The famous free chess program, Crafty. The source code is also available for download.
http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/hyatt/pubs.html
Technical papers by the creator of Crafty, Robert Hyatt.
http://members.home.nl/matador/chess840.htm
The author of the commercial program, REBEL explains some of the
programming techniques used in REBEL - very interesting!
http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/
The home page of DarkThought. Some interesting topics on how
DarkThought plays chess.
http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/index.htm
The home page of Bruce Moreland (author of Gerbil) Contains information
on computer chess programming on the Programming topics page.
http://www.frayn.net/beowulf/
Home page
of the Beowulf Computer Chess Engine. Contains information on chess
programming theory.
http://www.chessmazeinternational.com/
ChessmazeInternational specializes in selling high quality classic and
artistic
chess sets, chess pieces, chess boards, backgammon sets, and other
games such as dominos and checkers
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