Programming

The Anatomy of Chess Programs
An introduction to how computers play chess.
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/ICCA/anatomy.html

Aristarch
Offers downloads of the free gaming engine.
http://www.zipproth.de/chess/

The Beowulf Chess Engine Homepage
Beowulf Chess Engine was used in the world-record holding ChessBrain project. The instructive source code for the engine is open and free to download.
http://www.frayn.net/beowulf/index.html

Chess Tree Search
Chess Tree Search - More useful information regarding chess programming methods.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/search.html

Chessopolis: Computer Chess
45 links to information on computer chess programming (bottom section of this web page)
http://www.chessopolis.com/cchess.htm

ChessPatterns
Categorized links to chess programming resources, SSDF (Swedish Chess Computer Association) rating list.
http://www.chesspatterns.com/

14.3 Computer Chess
A chapter from a book on programming chess, emphasizing parallel processing.
http://www.npac.syr.edu/copywrite/pcw/node341.html

Computer chess / GNU chess, chess programming
GNUChess programming with GNU versions for Atari, Mac, Windows, Unix. Also contains other games that are using chess programming techniques. Java, C, C++ source code included for all games.
http://users.telenet.be/artificialintelligence/chess/gnuchess.html

Computer Chess Programming
Page of chess programming links and documents. Also contains links to other turn-based game programming.
http://chess.verhelst.org/

Computer Chess Programming Theory
Great site for programmers, contains quality information on various programming topics.
http://www.frayn.net/beowulf/theory.html

GameDev.net -- Chess Programming Part I: Getting Started
The first article in a six-part series about programming computers to play chess, and by extension other similar strategy games of perfect information.
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/chess1/

Geko Chess Engine
Chess engine for Winboard and Windows. Delphi source code is available and also includes a link page with chess programming documents.
http://www.geocities.com/gekochess/

International Computer Games Association
Promotes computer chess programming, holds competitions with "computer" players, and publishes a quarterly journal.
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/icga/

Introduction to Chess Programming
Short and brief introduction to Chess programming, providing basic methods of how computers play chess.
http://www.aihorizon.com/essays/chessai/intro_print.htm

OnJava.com Article on BitBoards
Article about bitboards implemented in Java.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/02/02/bitsets.html

The Rebel Chess Program
Information about the Rebel chess program. Also includes a section on chess programming and theory.
http://members.home.nl/matador/chess.htm

Robert Hyatt's Home Page
High quality chess programming papers from the inventor of rotated bitboards and the author of Crafty, a popular open source chess engine.
http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/hyatt/pubs.html

TalkChess
Popular message board discussing anything and everything relating to Computer Chess Programming. Registration required.
http://www.talkchess.com

Tim Mann's Chess Pages
Tim Mann's chess pages, author of XBoard and WinBoard user interfaces.
http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html