Erlang Chess Readme File

Author: François Cardinaux

Overview of the current folder:

• The current folder is dedicated to the erlang chess project
• It contains all files that are necessary to this project
• There is no symlink of any sort to external resources

The subfolders (updated on 2011.06.26):

• beams: the beam files
• erl: Erlang part of the project
• test: Erlang unit tests
• test_data: any kind of test data

Credits

For the algorithm:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/494721/what-are-some-good-resources-for-writing-a-chess-engine
• Jonatan Pettersson's blog:
• http://mediocrechess.blogspot.com/
• http://mediocrechess.blogspot.com/2006/12/guide-move-generation.html
• http://mediocrechess.blogspot.com/2006/12/0x88-representation.html
• http://mediocrechess.blogspot.com/2006/12/guide-attacked-squares.html

For debugging and tests:

• Roce: http://www.rocechess.ch/rocee.html
• Perft suite: http://hem.passagen.se/maragor/perftsuite.epd, which can be found inside Roce
• http://mediocrechess.blogspot.com/2007/01/guide-perft-scores.html
• http://www.albert.nu/programs/sharper/perft.asp
• https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Perft+Results

License

This software is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.

Conventions

Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN) is used to describe a particular board position:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth%E2%80%93Edwards_Notation

How to run unit tests

$ cd ~/path/to/chessfold
$ make fortest
$ make testall