I started this project from scratch. If it wasn't for these internet resources, hotbabe chess wouldn't have been possible.

The following are links that allowed me to figure out everthing about computer chess programming.

• http://www.freewarefiles.com

• http://www.freewareweb.com

• http://www.nonags.com

• http://www.TheFreeSite.com
  One of the largest site of its kind on the Web, (with over one million visitors a month).

• http://www.chessville.com
  Lots of chess links

• http://www.eiffel.com
  Eiffel Software. The company that makes awsome development tools for Hotbabe Chess.

• http://www.eiffel-nice.org
  NICE. The non-profit organization for the standardization of the Eiffel language

• http://www.eiffel-nice.org/eiffelstruggle/2003
  The Eiffel Struggle 2003 home page. Hotbabe Chess was my entry.

• http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_eiffel.html
  Excellent resources for all things Eiffel related.

• http://www.netlib.org/utk/lsi/pcwLSI/text/node341.html
  Misc. chess programming information.

• http://www.chessbrain.net/beowulf/theory.html
  Chess programming theory

• http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~davoudo/tutorials.html
  Chess Programming Tutorials (by Chessopolis)

• http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/search.html
  Chess Tree Search. All kinds of information on different tree searching algorithms.

• http://www.seanet.com/%7Ebrucemo/topics/topics.htm
  Essays on computer chess topics. Excellent descriptions and diagrams.

• http://www.chessopolis.com/cchess.htm
  Chess engines, chess interfaces, chess file formats, freeware/shareware

• http://www.cs.montana.edu/~noriko/500/cs_500.htm
  Excellent chess programming introduction

• http://www.digichess.gr/articles/minmax.html
  The logic behind MinMax algorithm!

• http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/hyatt/hyatt.html
  Robert Hyatt's home page

• http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/anw/G13GT1/alphabet.html
  Alpha-beta pruning alrogithm explained

• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/chess1/page2.asp
  Extremely detailed tutorial for chess programming (in java).

• http://home.comcast.net/~tckerrigan
  Tom Kerrigan's Home Page. TSCP (Tom's Simple Chess Program). This will give you a great idea about how chess programs work.

• http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/transparency.html
  How to draw transparent bitmaps using the windows GDI interface.

• http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html
  Xboard and Winboard information

• rec.games.chess.computer
  Newgroup about chess programming. Great newgroup to ask questions.