awesome-chess
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- 0x88
A square-centric method of representing the chess board used by some chess programs.
- 365Chess
The biggest online chess games database.
- Bitboard
A bitboard is a specialized bit array data structure commonly used in computer systems that play board games.
- CarlsenBot
Voice controlled chess robot.
- Chess Journal
A free resource for chess players to learn and master the game of chess.
- Chess prodigy
Site about Chess prodigy by Wikipedia.
National chess federations
Chess computers
- AlphaZero
AlphaZero is a computer program developed by artificial intelligence research company DeepMind to master the games of chess, shogi and go. Chessprogramming wiki on AlphaZero.
- Deep Blue
Chess-playing computer developed by IBM. It is known for being the first computer chess-playing system to win both a chess game and a chess match against a reigning world champion under regular time controls. (quick update 2023-2-4: 403 Forbidden)
Tournaments
- Altibox Norway Chess
One of the world's strongest chess tournament.
- Biel International Chess Festival
Homepage of the Biel International Chess Festival.
- EOBCC
European Online Blitz Chess Championship.
- FIDE Online Olympiad
FIDE Online Olympiad site.
- GCT
The Grand Chess Tour is a circuit of chess tournaments.
- Global Chess Festival
A prestigious chess event.
Projects
- AndroidChessClock
Simple chess clock for Android.
- angular-chess
Chess directive for AngularJS.
- angular-chessboard
Chessboard directive for AngularJS.
- Chess Alpha Zero
Chess reinforcement learning by AlphaGo Zero methods.
- Chess Encryption
Project about encrypting files into large sets of Chess games stored in PGN format.
- ChessLab
A desktop program for chess players and chess enthusiasts with 2D and 3D board views, PGN support, UCI integration and more. Runs on UNIX-like platforms.
Movies
- Bobby Fischer Against the World
A documentary feature film that explores the life of chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer.
- Magnus
Movie about Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess prodigy.
- Searching for Bobby Fischer
It is based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin.
- The Queen's Gambit
An American drama television miniseries based on Walter Tevis's 1983 novel of the same name.
Chess engines
- Caissa
A strong, UCI command-line chess engine, written from scratch in C++ in development since early 2021. Optimized for regular chess, FRC (Fischer Random Chess) and DFRC (Double Fischer Random Chess).
- Fritz
A German chess program originally developed for ChessBase by Frans Morsch based on his Quest program, ported to DOS, and then Windows by Mathias Feist.
- GNU Chess
A free software chess engine which plays a full game of chess against a human being or other computer program. The goal of GNU Chess is to serve as a basis for research. It has been used in numerous research contexts.
- Leela Chess Zero
A free, open-source, and neural network-based chess engine and distributed computing project.
- Stockfish Chess
Strong open source chess engine.
- Stockfish Chess Repo
UCI chess engine. Repo on GitHub.
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