Stockfish: Documentation for Engine?

[BKSpurgeon]

Hi folks

Wondering if there is any documentation that may aid in understanding the source code?

rgds

Ben

[iGeek098]

I didn't find official docs, however, chessprogramingwiki [1] has good overall chess engines explanations (techniques used here are well explained like hash maps etc), it was also recommended by the support at stockfish [2]

[3] here you can find a set of features and techniques used by stockfish and each of them is explained at the wiki, however, it's a generic way rather than focusing on stockfish's own implementation, but still will help you much (I hope)

[1] https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com
[2] http://support.stockfishchess.org/discussions/questions/1132-how-to-understand-stockfish-sources
[3] https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Stockfish

[BKSpurgeon]

chrs.

[franktopel]

Regarding links 1 and 3:

We are sorry, but the site you are looking for no longer exists

[vondele]

@franktopel
1 and 3 moved to https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page and https://www.chessprogramming.org/Stockfish

[franktopel]

Link 2 is also dead.

[BKSpurgeon]

@franktopel noted: you are right: half the links are dead.

the new links are noted on the main page.