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Papers

Engine:

• Programming a Computer for Playing Chess, Claude E.. Shannon, 1949

eXpanability:

• ChessCoach
• Automated Chess Commentator Powered by Neural Chess Engine
• Bridging the Gap between Expert and Language Models: Concept-guided Chess Commentary Generation and Evaluation

Useful websites

General

• Lichess.org - Free and Open Source chess platform

Analysis:

• OpeningTree.com
• Chesstree.net
• ChessCompass.com
• DecodeChess.com

Courses:

• ChessFactor.com
• Building Habits (full version)

Videos

• The story of Lichess, Dominik Töpfer

Tutorials

Complete implementations:

• A Chess Engine in Go by CaroKanns
• Programming an Advanced Java Chess Engine by Logic Crazy
• Bitboard CHESS ENGINE in C by Code Monkey King
• Programming A Chess Engine in C by Bluefever Software
• Code a Chess Game with Stockfish API – JavaScript Tutorial by RobertsTech139
• Making a Chess Engine in Zig by John Murray

General:

• The Fascinating Programming of a Chess Engine by Bartek Spitza
• Algorithms Explained – minimax and alpha-beta pruning by Sebastian Lague
• Worlds Fastest Bitboard Chess Movegenerator by D. Infuehr

Programming references

• Chess Programming Wiki - repository of information about chess programming
• brucemo.com - Series of essays on computer chess topics
• tscpchess
• Neural Networks For Chess - Free Book about Deep-Learning approaches for Chess