Chess Links and Resources

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The following is a list of useful internet resources for chess and chess programming materials.
Information from many of them was used to make the program.
Back to main page.

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Official rules of Chess
http://www.uschess.org/beginners/letsplay.html

Chess openings database (the one used in the program)
http://www.homestead.com/Observer/Openings.html

Algebraic Chess Notation (used for the opening database)
http://www.chessandbeyond.com/the_club/notation.htm

GNU chess [a much better chess playing program than mine :) ]
http://chess.delorie.com/

Tree searches in chess
http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/search.html

Alpha-beta pruning
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~sueng/533/AlphaBetaPruning.html

Futility pruning
http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/node26.html

Chess piece graphics (the ones used in the program)
http://www.chessvariants.com/graphics.dir/alfaerie/index.html

Computer Chess Programming links
http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/programming.html
http://chess.verhelst.org/
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/chess1/

Kasparov vs. X3D Chess (the most recent man vs. machine chess match)
http://www.x3dchess.com/

CS 472/473 for the fall of 2003 (the class I did the project for)
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs472/2003fa/

Also special thanks to all the people that played against the program, and to Nate Ward for designing the front webpage.