not sure if this will help or not, but if you download the freeware engine crafty, you can read all the .c and .h files that make it tick. Crafty is a strong engine though and I found the code hard to read. here is a link to a thread with some other useful info:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/yet-another-on-line-chess-program
hope that helps,
JustinJ
Hello All,
For a small while I've been thinking of writing a small chess engine. Nothing fancy or strong just a very basic engine that I can play against. I've already written a little interface so it can talk xBoard thus I can test it against other engines to see the power of my engine. The issue being, I only know two engines. Deep Blue and GNU Chess.
My question would be, does anyone know a few weak engines that I can put against mine and does anyone have papers or something about development strategies.
I've already been using GNU Chess Sources for the references.
But I don't want to use it to much.
Cheers,
Robin