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This page is for people who want to join the internet computer-chess community. The following is certainly not a complete list of links, but if you traverse a few you will find a lot of people who can help you, and a lot more links. Computer Chess Club (CCC), This is a message board dedicated to discussion of computer-chess issues. In order to read and write messages, you need to sign up, which costs nothing. The owner of the forum is Steve Schwartz, who owns a company called ICD, which sells computer-chess software and other chess-related items. If you sign up, Steve might spam you now and then, which is a small price to pay. CSS-Forum, hosted by Computer Scach und Spiele, a German computer-chess magazine closely aligned with the computer-chess giant Chessbase. This one is mostly in German. If you can't read German, AltaVista provides Babel Fish, an excellent web-translator, which you can use to get a basic idea of what is going on. The Winboard-Forum, hosted by Parsimony. This is based in Germany, but it is mostly in English for some unknown reason. This has lots of useful information about amateur chess engines. Thomas Mayer's Newsticker. This is an excellent site where you can download many amateur chess engines. To use them you will need to download Winboard. We have an international computer chess association. It is called the ICCA, which stands for "International Computer Chess Association", of course. I include a link to it because if you are serious about writing your own computer chess engine, you may wish to join this organization. You get a quarterly academic journal, and the association organizes a yearly world championship. If you want some competition for your chess engine, I recommend the ICC, which will supply you with hundreds of chess players to play against, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
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