Does anybody know how do some basic chess AI? Or does anybody know where to get tuts for this? Keep in mind that i''m new to game programing in c++. Thanks.

If u r new to C++, then u should probably get a *lot* of experience before u begin with chess. Making chess is not as easy as it may seem to u. For ur information, there ARE quite a few tuts on making chess but dont jump to them now.

Regards.

Check out this page: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=18. There is a Chess Programming Series listed there about halfway down, it''s a great resource.

I agree that if you''re not solid in the basics of programming, and don''t understand the basic data structures, basic program flow (including recursion, which is very important), and feel very comfortable with C/C++, chess is probably not the place to start.

I''ve been programming chess software for years now, and I''m still finding subtle things I missed about the quirks of chess and the weird rules it has.

Even in a simple game playing program (tic-tac-toe, connect-4, etc.) you will probably have a hard enough time trying to understand a minmax search with simple evaluation. Try implementing minmax based AI for tic-tac-toe or connect-4, and after you''ve done that, try to improve the efficiency of the algorithm. First use alpha-beta instead of minmax, then try to get better move ordering, maybe implement a transposition table, and so on. There are tons of ways to improve the efficiency of a minmax search. The basic ideas that work for chess will work for other turn based board games, so if you can learn about how the algorithms work by writing a simpler game, you will have a much easier time writing a chess program.