Tom Kerrigan's Simple Chess Program
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Tom Kerrigan's Simple Chess Program (TSCP) is a chess program by Tom Kerrigan. Its main goal is to demonstrate how a chess
program works. The source code
is available and heavily commented to make learning simple. TSCP was originally released to the Internet
in 1997.
Other popular chess engines for learning through source code inspection are Crafty
by Robert Hyatt
and Fruit by Fabian Letouzey.
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
program works. The source code
Source code
In computer science, source code is text written using the format and syntax of the programming language that it is being written in. Such a language is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source...
is available and heavily commented to make learning simple. TSCP was originally released to the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
in 1997.
Other popular chess engines for learning through source code inspection are Crafty
Crafty
Crafty is a chess program written by UAB professor Dr. Robert Hyatt. It is directly derived from Cray Blitz, winner of the 1983 and 1986 World Computer Chess Championships....
by Robert Hyatt
Robert Hyatt
Dr. Robert Hyatt is an Associate Professor of Computer science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences . He is the author of the computer chess program Crafty and the co-author of Cray Blitz, a two-time winner of the World Computer Chess...
and Fruit by Fabian Letouzey.