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Wilfred Hughes

Jan 9, 2019 at 00:17

Fabulous article demonstrating how to write a chess AI, including several interactive demos! https://medium.freecodecamp.org/simple-chess-ai-step-by-step-1d55a9266977 It also shows the importance of a big ecosystem. There are already JS libraries for computing legal moves and showing a chess UI, so you can focus on the AI!

A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI

By Lauri Hartikka Let’s explore some basic concepts that will help us create a simple chess AI: move-generation board evaluation minimax and alpha beta pruning. At each step, we’ll improve our algorithm with one of these time-tested chess-programmi...