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Bill Jordan [1] William (Bill) Jordan,

an Australian chess player, FIDE Master, in 1974 Australian Junior Champion, in 1997 Australian Postal champion [2], chess coach and writer, as well as software developer with focus on chess and Checkers programs and utilities.

Computer Chess#

As computer chess programmer Bill, Jordan is author of various chess tools and the WinBoard compliant chess engines Bills Bare Bones Chess [3] aka Basic-Chess, and Awesome [4]. His program Chess Memory was inspired by Adriaan de Groot’s cognitive experiments. One has to memorize positions from a series displayed for 10 seconds each to receive a percent score [5] . More recently, Bill Jordan published the didactic open source chess programs Bitboard-Chess and JavaScript-Chess on GitHub [6], along with his books and e-Books explaining the programs.

Selected Publications#

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2018 …#

• Bill Jordan (2018). Think Like a Computer. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). Optimise Your Chess Thinking. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). Play Fast, Positionally and Accurately: Choosing a Move. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). How to Write a Chess Program. amazon » Basic-Chess
• Bill Jordan (2019). The Joy of Chess Programming: How Chess Engines Work. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). Play Like a World Champion: Wilhelm Steinitz. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). Play Like a World Champion: Emanuel Lasker. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). Play Like a World Champion: Boris Spassky. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2019). Play Like a World Champion: Garry Kasparov. amazon

2020 …#

• Bill Jordan (2020). Calculation versus Intuition: Stockfish versus Leela. amazon » TCEC, Stockfish, Leela Chess Zero
• Bill Jordan (2020). How to Write a Bitboard Chess Engine. amazon » Bitboard-Chess
• Bill Jordan (2020). How to Write a JavaScript Chess Engine. amazon » JavaScript-Chess
• Bill Jordan (2021). Advanced Chess Programming: How Strong Chess Engines Work. amazon
• Bill Jordan (2021). How to Write a Checkers Program. amazon

Postings#

• My Passion for Programming by Bill Jordan, Who are you to think that you could change the world?, July 30, 2011
• Bill Jordan flukes a win over Houdini by Bill Jordan, Chess Chat, October 12, 2013 ( Wayback Machine) » Houdini
• source code for a basic chess engine by Bill Jordan, Bill Jordan Chess, May 4, 2019 » Bills Bare Bones Chess aka Basic-Chess

External Links#

• billjordanchess · GitHub
• Bill Jordan Chess
• Blogger: Bill Jordan
• Chess Software by Bill Jordan ( Wayback Machine)
• Chess Dos Programs(2-November-2002) by Bill Jordan ( Wayback Machine)
• Jordan, William FIDE Chess Profile
• Bill Jordan | South Australian Chess Association
• William Jordan chess games - 365Chess.com
• The chess games of William Jordan from chessgames.com
• Bill Jordan chess YouTube channel

References#

1. ↑ Bill Jordan chess YouTube channel
2. ↑ Bill Jordan | South Australian Chess Association
3. ↑ Bills Bare Bones Chess ( Wayback Machine)
4. ↑ Awesome Chess Program, Chess Tuition (2016) ( Wayback Machine)
5. ↑ Chess Memory ( Wayback Machine)
6. ↑ billjordanchess · GitHub
7. ↑ FM Bill Jordan’s eBooks @ Amazon Author Central

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