What are some good resources for writing a chess engine?

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I'm interested in writing a chess engine (mostly as a learning exercise) and would be interested in any resources that people know of that could be of interest or use, anything really: Papers, Books, Theory, Tutorials, anything that could be useful.

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From my archives:

This is a useful chess programming wiki.
This is a simple introduction to chess programming.
This is a (free) book on chess algorithms.
This contains several easy step-by-step YouTube tutorial series' ranging from beginner to advanced level.
This is a more advanced introduction.
This is Adam Berent's interesting computer chess blog.
This is a good analysis of MTD(f), an interesting search algorithm.
This is a good guide to validation of move generation.
This is lots of good information on the Rebel chess engine.
This is lots of good information on the Dark Thought chess engine.
Good information and source code for the Monsoon chess engine.
These are more notes on chess programming.
A reasonable introduction to rotated bitboards.
A reasonable introduction to magic bitboards.
A reasonable introduction to late move reductions.
A look at null-move pruning.
A collection of position sets for testing purposes.
Here is an old report from 2 students who wrote a chess program.
A bunch of miscellaneous chess programming links.
Finally, here is Wikipedia's take on computer chess.

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