What are some good resources for writing a chess engine?

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Published on 2009-01-30T06:56:46Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 19:28 UTC
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I'm interested in writing a chess engine (mostly as a learning exercise) and would be interested in any resources that people know of that could be of interest or use, anything really: Papers, Books, Theory, Tutorials, anything that could be useful.

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