ICS 180: Strategy and board game programming

Some World-Wide Web Links

Game Programming Methods

• A. N. Walker's computer chess lecture notes
• Computer Chess Programming. Along with descriptions of key programming techniques (board representation, search) also contains many pointers to related pages, primarily focusing on chess but including some other games.
• Machine Learning in Games
• Probability Cutting, game-independent technique for selectively pruning alpha-beta trees.
• Combinatorial game theory
• GamePlate Java game-programming library.

General Information on Computer Games

• Computer Chess Club programmers' bulletin board.
• Computer chess information and algorithms
• Stormy Chess Center and Computer Chess Association Netherlands.
• Computer Go mailing list
• Mick's Computer Go Page
• Computer Go, American Go Assn.

Individual Game Programs

• Chinook, current man-machine checkers champion.
• Cilkchess, chess program for parallel computers formerly known as Star-Socrates.
• Crafty. Chess system by Bob Hyatt, who also wrote Cray Blitz. Source code available.
• Dark Thought -- interesting description of the history of this chess program's development.
• Dan's double-dummy bridge evaluator.
• GIB bridge program.
• Deep Blue, IBM's chess system.
• Hannibal Othello system.
• Keyano Othello system.
• Tom Kerrigan's simple chess program.
• Logistello Othello system.
• The Turk web-based chess program.

Computer Game Tournaments and Matches

• 8th ICCA World Computer Chess Championships, Hong Kong, 1995
• 9th ICCA World Computer Chess Championships, Paderborn, 1999
• 14th World Micro-Computer Chess Championships, Jakarta, 1996
• 15th World Micro-Computer Chess Championships, Paris, 1997
• 6th Int. Paderborn Computer Chess Championship, 1998
• Dutch Open Computer Chess Ch., 1999
• AEGON Man-Machine chess tournament, The Hague, 1997
• Computer Chess Correspondence Cup
• Kasparov vs. Deep Blue 6-game match between chess program and human world champion
• Murakami vs. Logistello 6-game match between othello program and human world champion

Computer Game Researchers

• Alberta GAMES. The acronym stands for Game-playing, Analytical methods, Minimax search and Empirical Studies.
• International Computer Chess Association
• Maastricht Computer Games Group
• Parallel chess research at Caltech
• Verhelst's list of computer game research groups and people
• Martin Müller research in computer go and combinatorial game theory