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 202021. You can check it out on my github in the sophia repo. Github: Sophia: Sebastian Lague s Alphabeta video: 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