Tom Kerrigan's Simple Chess Program

Developer(s)	Tom Kerrigan
Stable release	1.81 / May 9, 2007
Written in	C
Operating system	POSIX, Windows, Macintosh
Type	Chess engine

Tom Kerrigan's Simple Chess Program (TSCP) is a chess program by Tom Kerrigan. Its main goal is to demonstrate how a chess program works. The source code is available and heavily commented to make learning simple. TSCP was originally released to the Internet in 1997.

Other popular chess engines for learning through source code inspection are Crafty by Robert Hyatt and Fruit by Fabien Letouzey.

Currently

In 2010, the application was released as an iPad / iPhone application called tChess.

Read more:

• List of chess engines
• TSCP Download Page