Programming A Chess Engine in C Part 1 - Resources and Community

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First video in a series programming a chess engine in C

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[aaronalfer]

The best source of information about chess programming I've found on YouTube so far. Thank you!

[szg]

I'll be using this to make my Chess engine! I also will try to use my tensor cores and Cuda cores and 32 threads to make it learn from the games against me. I'm glad I found this Playlist. Now I have more kick to finally make it.

[FelixNielsen]

I've only first started watching, but let me just say, from the bottom of my heart. Thanks! I've been looking for something like this for a long time, and I hope it live up to my expectations.

[pleasedontlookforme]

Can I just say thank you so much. I kind of arbitrarily decided I was going to create a simple chess engine for my A Level computer science project but i don't have much experience in chess engine programming and so I was really lost on where to start for a while till i found your video series.

[limexer]

You are awesome. Your videos are awesome, and you definitely need (and deserve) more subscribers.

[Luke-utky]

Even after 7 years, this playlist is still awesome

[israelolvera]

Still replying after 9 years keep up the hard work:)

[RRAAPillai]

Love your work! Your explanations are so clear, logical and interesting. You make a wonderful teacher! Thank you for being so generous with your time and effort!

[DonUber]

I just want to say: Thank you so much!

[burakkocak]

The best video i found so far, thank you very much for your effort.

[InternetProgrammer]

Just Subscribed! Thanks for the hard work.

[ashwanirathee]

thank you so much for existing, brother.

[chrish]

Excellent series. I'm an amateur programmer and writing my first chess engine in vb.net taking an object oriented approach. This series has really helped me understand the mechanics of a chess engine. Thanks 

[giovanev]

OMG! i'm looking for this so long. AMAZING!!!

[AfterthoughtTV]

Hey man, no idea if you still read these but I've just found this series and can't wait to get started. I've build a chess engine in Python using a lot of similar ideas here but Python is just too slow. I really wanted to make an engine that could actually compete against decent players and it seems here is a great place to start. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[emiliodiaz]

Nice list of resources. With your permission I'd like to add a couple of engines more, also written in C, one bellow TSCP and one above TSCP (in complexity):
-firstchess: by Pham Hong Nguyen. Actually it's not a fully chess engines (it lacks some rules as castle, en passant, etc), but it's really well written, short, and heavily commented
-sungorus: by Pablo Vázquez. Maybe an intermediate between TSCP and Stockfish. A really nice piece of code, but IMHO it's a pity its lack of comments

[xRicardo]

Thank you very much for these video tutorials!

[dbhutSheiCheleti]

Thank you very much, first of all. When are you going to upload part 8 and so on?

[omnivorist]

This is great. I have watched all the parts and have written a chess engine partly inspired by your work. I am using the Arena front end but I am a little unclear how to set up a contest with another engine. Though my engine plays on Arena I suspect it doesn't fully conform to what is required to allow others to use it. I would really appreciate some help, if only in the form of a pointer to a good chess programming site/forum.

[markuswi]

one describer more,
thx for sharing your knowledge