Managing the board

• Another unmake move scheme
  
• Attacked squares
  
• Board representation choice
  
• Generating moves gradually
  
• Move generation
  
• New move representation
  
• Piece lists
  
• The 0x88 representation
  

Search techniques

• Alpha-Beta Search
  
• Aspiration Windows, Killer moves and Principal Variation Search
  
• Futile attempts with futility pruning
  
• Iterative Deepening
  
• Late move reduction (LMR)
  
• Null-moves
  
• Quiescent search and the horizon effect
  
• Trying out advanced killer moves and history heuristic
  

Evaluation

• Contempt factor
  
• Static exchange evaluation (SEE)
  

Hash tables

• The memory in the hash tables
  
• Transposition tables
  
• Zobrist keys
  

Other

• Communication Protocols
  
• FEN Notation
  
• Perft scores - validating the move generation
  
• Time management