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Re:Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written in Python by thom on Saturday June 01, 2019 @05:53PM (#20071927)
Yeah, I totally agree that eval + search is the first step to learn, in terms of overall structure. And this includes lots of important concepts like quiescence search etc. I just think it's worth being honest: you either need really good eval or really fast search just to give _yourself_ a good game.
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Re:Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written in Python by Recursing on Saturday June 01, 2019 @06:39PM (#20072150)
You are welcome to try to play my rust rewrite of this exact engine on lichess https://lichess.org/@/sunfish_rs

If you're not a top 5% player, it can absolutely give you a good game (especially on fast time controls)

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Re:Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written in Python by thomasahle on Saturday June 01, 2019 @06:47PM (#20072211)
That is cool! I've thought about making a rust version of Sunfish, and I didn't even know this existed!
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