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petermcneeleylast Saturday at 8:34 PM1 replyview on HN

It is very humbling to write your own chess engine.


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thomasmglast Saturday at 9:19 PM

Yes. I did the exact same thing a few weeks ago (in Java, but the idea is to port it to my own programming language). I wrote a terminal UI. Lots of small challenges. Many things to learn, like minimax, bitboards, immutable vs mutable.