The Fascinating Programming of a Chess Engine

Building my chess computer was really fun and many of the concepts are so elegant. I built it on the side of my studies during the winter of 2020-21. You can check it out on my github in the "sophia" repo.

Github: https://github.com/bartekspitza
Sophia: https://github.com/bartekspitza/sophia
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Made with Motion Canvas, an incredible library by ‪@aarthificial‬!

Music:
Ballerina - Yehezkel Raz
Spiral - Yonatan Riklis
Shimmer - Adrien de la Salle

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:24 Board Representation
1:38 Evaluating Positions
3:31 Why Search Is Important
4:07 Minimax algorithm
5:44 Pruning the search tree
6:25 Outro