Introduction

Checklist

Alpha-Beta Pruning

BCH Hashing

BitBoards

Bit Operations

de Bruijn Sequence

Divide

ELO Rating

Evaluation

Evaluation Hash Table

FEN (Forsyth-Edwards Notation)

Game Phases

Hash Functions

Huffman

Iterative Deepening

LSB (Least Significant Bit)

Magic BitBoards

Material Hash Table

MSB (Most Significant Bit)

Minimax Algorithm

Move Generation

Move History

Move Ordering

Null Move Pruning

Opening Book

Pawn Hash Table

Perft

Portable Game Notation

Ponder

Rating

Razoring

PRNG (Pseudo Random Number Generator)

Search

Time Controls

Transposition Table

Winboard

Zobrist Hashing

Game -> Engine -> Timer -> Board -> Pieces
  |        |        |        |        |
  |        v        |        |        v
  |     User input  |        |      Define the pieces 
  |     MinMax      |        |      What moves a piece can make
  |       AI        |        |      Value of a piece
  |       UCI       v        |
  v            Time Controls |
User input        Threads    |
                             v
                        The board grid
                        Determine available moves
                        Move chess pieces
                        Remove chess pieces
                        Promote pieces
                        Value of board

Game

• Runs overall game.

Engine

• Takes user input.
• UCI.
• MinMax.
• AI.

Timer

• Time controls.

Board

• The board grid.
• Determine available moves.
• Move chess pieces.
• Remove chess pieces.
• Promote pieces.

Pieces

• The actual pieces.
• The piece movements.

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page

http://computer-chess.org/doku.php

https://rdrr.io/cran/bigchess/f/