SOFTWARE BOOK - CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT

Programming a chess computer is quite a task when you start from scratch.  The following book "Starting Out Programming Chess Computers, AEKAX: Software Design and Implementation of a Chess Computer" by Christopher Snell (myself) contains UML diagrams and code for building a simple chess computer.  The book contains the code for a chess computer called AEKAX.  Xakea is the word for chess in the Basque language, and Aekax is this named reversed.