Larry's memoirs and musings

Larry Krakauer of the MIT AI Lab. Articles here on various ITS-related topics, but I started by reading just the chess articles and then ended up reading the whole thing...

to ai chess its machack mit ... on 05 May 2018

chessprogramming - home

Exactly what it says on the tin. Lots of useful historical information here; I came looking for details about MacHack.

to ai chess games its retrocomputing ... on 05 May 2018

Chess Computer UK

From the earliest ones to the present. It's nice to see that people are now making replacement CPU boards for the older systems so you can use a more modern chess engine...

to chess electronics games retrocomputing ... on 22 April 2018

ChessBase is 25 – everything 25% off in our shop | Chess News

A story about Garry Kasparov and the birth of chess databases. If you've ever wanted a picture of Kasparov playing Hopper on a BBC B, this is the place to go.

to acorn atari bbc chess epson retrocomputing ... on 07 June 2015

chessprogramming - home

A wiki for chess programmers.

to chess games programming wiki ... on 07 June 2015

Toledo Atomchess Game

A better bootblock chess implementation.

to bootblock chess cute-code games software ... on 22 March 2015

Kenneth W. Regan's Chess Page

Mostly about detecting cheating in chess through extremely crafty statistical methods. Fascinating stuff -- although you probably need to know more about chess than I do to really appreciate it.

to cheating chess competition games statistics ... on 24 August 2014

bolknote/SedChess

As the name suggests.

to chess cute-code games sed software ... on 29 November 2013

PIC Blitz

"PIC Blitz is a tiny, low-power, ultra-low-cost device that plays lightning chess. It is based on a PIC16F628A microcontroller, which has just 3.5 kbytes of flash and 224 bytes of RAM."

to chess cute-code games microcontroller pic ... on 12 November 2013

Full ZX-81 Chess in 1K

The (relatively) famous 1K chess for the ZX81.

to 1k chess retrocomputing z80 zx81 ... on 20 July 2013