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Approximating a rating for too strong engines
Suppose we have an extremely strong engine that happens to win every game it participates in even against the most powerful engines and players.
If it continues to win every game, its rating (for ...
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How to avoid the same opening move in an engine built using Python chess
I created a chess engine using the Python chess library. It has an evaluation function (piece values, piece square values, and capture values) and minimax. Alpha-beta pruning is also implemented. At ...
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CNN autoencoder for feature extraction for a chess position
I'm currently building a chess engine in my free time while entering my second year of my master's studies in computer science. For a class we need to perform a litterature survey of a topic and ...
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Calculating the precise number of combinations of possible moves from a given position
I was surprised Bobby Fischer couldn't find a mate in 3 within 30 minutes in this problem by Pal Benko. This made me wonder-how many actual moves are possible with so few pieces left in only 3 moves?
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What is the highest mobility score of a board without a checkmate, stalemate, or draw?
I consider the mobility score of a board to be the number of legal moves one player could make less the number of legal moves the other player could make.
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