Help needed for chess programming

[abhay]

Hi Folks,

I need some help from you all chesslovers. I am doing my final year
Btech project on developing a computer program that can play (standard)
chess successfully. As most of you are playing chess for a long time and I suppose that you have good knowledge of chess (and hopefully related to computer chess programming), can you please help and tell me about some useful resources on the internet related to 'chess programming' or any useful sites, articles or books related to chess programs, that can give me some ideas on what are the user needs and how to successfully write a chess program?

I also need some help for the interface part. Do you know anything about it? And can you suggest me where to look for some standard interfaces for playing chess? I look forward to a helpful response, and thanks for any help that you can provide.

Any help and suggestions you provide will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

best regards,
abhay
DA-IICT, Btech, 4th yr
INDIA

PS: You can mail your reply also at: abhay_kumar at da-iict.org
abhay.kumars at gmail.com

 

[sunnydiv]

wasnt there like a flash program which showed how a computer thinks chess moves, maybe that can help you

 

[medpal]

i think sourceforge will help you here is the link

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=chess+&imageField.x=32&imageField.y=11

 

[~HeadShot~]

Hey doc, good to see you here...

 

[abhay]

wasnt there like a flash program which showed how a computer thinks chess moves, maybe that can help you

Hey Guys,

I was expecting some serious suggestions, I am disappointed!

 

[anupamsinha]

Sometime back I saw a chess engine. It was probably name crafty. Search for it on google. Probably it is open source as well.

 

[bosky101]

Resources

• Amateur / Freeware Chess Engines which provide specific features such as interfaces or the knowledgebase ,so on. Also has links to tutorials ,links to www.cs.unimaas.nl/icga/games/chess/anatomy.htm+%22anatomy+of+a+chess+program%22&hl=en]Anatomy Of Chess Program[/url] articles on how chess programs work, computer chess methods,etc.
  
• Bibliography on Machine Learning in Strategic Game Playing - a list of publications on how computers can learn to play strategic games.
  
• Program was written in Turbo Pascal for MS-DOS Computers with 640K of RAM and VGA graphics.
  
• ANS Forth Chess
  
  
  
• Chess Captor - Utility to help you create chess diagrams.
• Misc software projects with source code

  Chenard http://custom.lab.unb.br/pub/chess/chenard/
  
  Crafty ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/
  
  Faile http://sourceforge.net/projects/faile/
  
  Gerbil Bruce Moreland's (Ferret's programmer) new free chess program
  
  GNUchess ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuchess/
  
  Dusan's Phalanx Page ftp page
  
  The Crazy Bishop A bit of a veteran by now, great program.

• Software for :

  Chess Playing ,Databases , PGN Readers
  
  ,Teaching ,Tournament Management ,Email Chess,Chess Diagram Utilities ,Screen Savers ,Desktop Themes

  and more here
  
• AI chess related links .
  
• Javascript Chess Simulatorhttp://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/javachess/
  
• Interesting Read at "On the Romance of Regicide: The Turk, Kasparov, and Deep Blue."
  
• A MEGA chess programming links repositary in alphabetical listing.

 

[Sam]

hmmm those results are worth a praise.....bosky.. u googled it or has the ready answer for everything..???

 

[bosky101]

mix of both . google ,has the answer for everything PLus i was an avid chess player myself when i was like ten,and still have the kasparov computer chess gamestation where it plays like him on a touch sensitive board(u vs the onboard computer ; ) )

 

[deejay]

I use winboard (Gui interface) with crafty engine.
good combo for amateurs like me.

it is opensource under GNU / GPL license. and you can d/l the source code and exhaustive documentation of most of the files.
and it is from here that i d/l most of the chess programs.

http://tim-mann.org/chess.html

unfortunately due to my low and capped internet connection i cannot d/l those huge TB's files.

more info about these projects here....

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/chess/

 

[abhay]

Finally some help has come my way!

Many thanks to bosky, deejay and all others who have tried to help me! :clap: Bosky, your links are awesome man! :hap2:

I am specifically in search of chess programs that are written in C/C++ and are simple to understand. Any idea guys?:huh: