How to Write a JavaScript Chess Engine: How Chess Programs Work

by Fm Bill Jordan

There are a number of reasons why you may be interested in how a chess program is You do need to be an expert programmer to understand this book.The code is written as simply as possible.The code is designed to be simple even for intermediate and even novice programmers. If you are not a programmer, but am interested in chess, this book may be of interest. The book includes annotation of the source code for a complete chess engine the author has developed as a teaching tool.The complete source code is available at GitHub . The program can be edited with any text editor and run on a web page.You can alter the code and see if you can make it stronger. The program is a derivative of my program referred to in my earlier book How to Write a BitBoard Chess Engine . The engine is strong enough to beat most social players. The engine evaluates elements of a position The engine uses a standard alpha-beta minimax search And much more… My other books on computer chess are How to Write a Chess Program , The Joy of Chess Programming , How to Write a Bitboard chess Engine and Think Like a Computer .

117 pages, Paperback

Published October 12, 2020