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This is about general purpose programming topics with focus on computer chess - programming languages, algorithms, data and various optimization techniques and standards.

Contents

Programming Topics

Basics

Parallelism

Misc Programming

GUI Programming

Bug Hunting

Optimization

Avoiding Branches
Performance Measurement
Profiling

Standards

Position

EPD - Extended Position Description
FEN - Forsyth-Edwards Notation

Games

PGN - Portable Game Notation

Protocols

Selected Publications

Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, Stanley Gill (1951). The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer. Addison-Wesley, 1st edition, amazon.com; 2nd edition 1957, amazon.com ¹
Lazar A. Lyusternik, Aleksandr A. Abramov, Victor I. Shestakov, Mikhail R. Shura-Bura (1952). Programming for High-Speed Electronic Computers. (Программирование для электронных счетных машин)
Stanley Gill (1958). Parallel Programming. The Computer Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1
Christopher Strachey (1966). System Analysis and Programming. Scientific American, September 1966, re-published August 23, 2011
Edsger Dijkstra (1968). Go To Statement Considered Harmful. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11, No. 3, pdf ² ³
Ward Douglas Maurer (1968). Programming: An Introduction to Computer Languages and Techniques. Holden-Day
Donald E. Knuth (1968 ...). The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) ⁴

Volume 1 - Fundamental Algorithms (1968)

Volume 2 - Seminumerical Algorithms (1969)

Volume 3 - Sorting and Searching (1973)

Volume 4 - Combinatorial Algorithms in preparation (five fascicles have been published as of April 2009)

Volume 4A - Enumeration and Backtracking

Volume 4B - Graph and Network Algorithms

Volume 4C and possibly 4D - Optimization and Recursion

Volume 5 - Syntactic Algorithms, planned (as of August 2006, estimated in 2015).

Donald Knuth (1974). Structured Programming with go to Statements. ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 6, No. 4, pdf » goto
John Hughes (1984). Why Functional Programming Matters. Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Göteborg, pdf » Alpha-Beta
Steve McConnell (1993). Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction. Microsoft Press
Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike (1999). The Practice of Programming. Addison-Wesley
Marek Strejczek (2004). Some aspects of chess programming. Technical University of Łódź, Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Supervisor Maciej Szmit, zipped pdf, pdf

Forum Posts

Big new ideas in chess programming by John Smith, CCC, September 19, 2013
Photographing Chess Clock by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, October 10, 2016
The Next Big Thing in Computer Chess? by Srdja Matovic, CCC, April 12, 2023 >> Artificial Intelligence, Chess, Hardware

External Links

References

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Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator from Wikipedia ↩︎
Considered harmful from Wikipedia ↩︎
Coding Horror: I'd Consider That Harmful, Too by Jeff Atwood, October 25, 2007↩︎
The Art of Computer Programming from Wikipedia ↩︎
William Cook (2009). Fifty-Plus Years of Combinatorial Integer Programming. pdf ↩︎
Barbara Hecker's YouTube channel by Julien Marcel, CCC, July 09, 2013↩︎