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Re:I Made a Chess Library in Java by reitzensteinm on Thursday April 02, 2020 @10:09PM (#22765777)
You need to consider the goals of a project before giving advice.
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Re:I Made a Chess Library in Java by durbat on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:33AM (#22766758)
OP mentions chess AI and game analyzer. Those would benefit from an optimized data representation.
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Re:I Made a Chess Library in Java by reitzensteinm on Friday April 03, 2020 @04:52AM (#22767388)
But both can also be written optimizing for simplicity and clarity at the cost of performance.

Competing with the state of the art is not an implicit goal for every project.

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