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Bills Bare Bones Chess aka Basic-Chess,
a WinBoard compliant, didactic open source chess program by Bill Jordan, designed to show how a chess engine might work ¹, written in C++. With some modifications, Bills Bare Bones Chess was later released as Basic-Chess on GitHub ², licensed under the GPL version 3, along with an e-Book explaining the program ³. Bills Bare Bones Chess utilizes a one-dimensional 8x8 board, and applies alpha-beta search with transposition table, check extensions, capture search and history heuristic inside the iterative deepening loop. The simple evaluation relies on material, piece-square tables and pawn structure scores.

See also

• Awesome
• Bitboard-Chess
• JavaScript-Chess

Publications

• Bill Jordan (2019). How to Write a Chess Program. amazon

Blog Posts

• source code for a basic chess engine by Bill Jordan, Bill Jordan Chess, May 4, 2019
  • main.cpp
  • search.cpp
  • hash.cpp
  • eval.cpp
  • update.cpp
  • gen.cpp
  • init.cpp
  • attack.cpp
  • globals.h

External Links

Chess Engine

• GitHub - billjordanchess/Basic-Chess: A simple chess program for teaching purposes
• Bills Bare Bones Chess (Wayback Machine)
• Awesome Chess Program, Chess Tuition (2016) (Wayback Machine)

Misc

• bare bones - Wiktionary
• bare-bones - Wiktionary
• barebone - Wiktionary
• Bare Bones from Wikipedia
• Barebone computer from Wikipedia
• bare - Wiktionary
• bone - Wiktionary
• Bone from Wikipedia
• Madeleine Peyroux - Bare Bones (2009), YouTube Video

Watch on YouTube

References