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William (Bill) Jordan,
an Australian chess player, FIDE Master, in 1974 Australian Junior Champion, in 1997 Australian Postal champion ¹, chess coach and writer, as well as software developer with focus on chess and Checkers programs and utilities.

Computer Chess

As computer chess programmer Bill, Jordan is author of various chess tools and the WinBoard compliant chess engines Bills Bare Bones Chess ² aka Basic-Chess, and Awesome ³. His program Chess Memory was inspired by Adriaan de Groot's cognitive experiments. One has to memorize positions from a series displayed for 10 seconds each to receive a percent score ⁴ . More recently, Bill Jordan published the didactic open source chess programs Bitboard-Chess and JavaScript-Chess on GitHub ⁵, along with his books and e-Books explaining the programs.

Selected Publications

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2018 ...

• Bill Jordan (2018). Think Like a Computer. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). Optimise Your Chess Thinking. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). Play Fast, Positionally and Accurately: Choosing a Move. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). How to Write a Chess Program. amazon » Basic-Chess
• Bill Jordan (2019). The Joy of Chess Programming: How Chess Engines Work. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). Play Like a World Champion: Wilhelm Steinitz. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). Play Like a World Champion: Emanuel Lasker. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). Play Like a World Champion: Boris Spassky. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). Play Like a World Champion: Garry Kasparov. amazon

2020 ...

• Bill Jordan (2020). Calculation versus Intuition: Stockfish versus Leela. amazon » TCEC, Stockfish, Leela Chess Zero
• Bill Jordan (2020). How to Write a Bitboard Chess Engine. amazon » Bitboard-Chess
• Bill Jordan (2020). How to Write a JavaScript Chess Engine. amazon » JavaScript-Chess
• Bill Jordan (2021). Advanced Chess Programming: How Strong Chess Engines Work. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2021). How to Write a Checkers Program. amazon

Postings

• My Passion for Programming by Bill Jordan, Who are you to think that you could change the world?, July 30, 2011
• Bill Jordan flukes a win over Houdini by Bill Jordan, Chess Chat, October 12, 2013 (Wayback Machine) » Houdini
• source code for a basic chess engine by Bill Jordan, Bill Jordan Chess, May 4, 2019 » Bills Bare Bones Chess aka Basic-Chess

External Links

• billjordanchess · GitHub
• Bill Jordan Chess
• Blogger: Bill Jordan
• Chess Software by Bill Jordan (Wayback Machine)
• Chess Dos Programs(2-November-2002) by Bill Jordan (Wayback Machine)
• Jordan, William FIDE Chess Profile
• Bill Jordan | South Australian Chess Association
• William Jordan chess games - 365Chess.com
• The chess games of William Jordan from chessgames.com
• Bill Jordan chess YouTube channel

References