Hello everyone, i am new to this forum and i love it. I have always been fascinated with chess and programming. I wanted to write a chess engine myself and have been trying to gain knowledge on the basic concepts. Sure i have found so many wonderful sites.
But for a beginner like me, it would be great to have chess authors here explain basic concepts like move generator, Evaluation basics, search tree, minimax etc. I mean all the basic concepts for just a basic engine to work right.
I don't find any sites explaining the concepts in detail so that beginners like me can understand them in spite of my low IQ and a lot of passion
I feel this will help chess enthusiasts like me a lot and in turn the chess community. We can probably have a sticky column for beginner's concepts or in a seperate forum subdivision.
mjlef wrote:The wiki also has links to pubic source chess programs so you can see how others have done things.
It does not seem to have a link to micro-Max, which is the simplest public source program, with the most elaborate explanations on its algorithms! (34 webpages of explanation on ~100 lines of code!)
mjlef wrote:The wiki also has links to pubic source chess programs so you can see how others have done things.
It does not seem to have a link to micro-Max, which is the simplest public source program, with the most elaborate explanations on its algorithms! (34 webpages of explanation on ~100 lines of code!)
You are right, and I will fix that tonight! Thanks for reminding me.
mjlef wrote:The wiki also has links to pubic source chess programs so you can see how others have done things.
It does not seem to have a link to micro-Max, which is the simplest public source program, with the most elaborate explanations on its algorithms! (34 webpages of explanation on ~100 lines of code!)
micro-Max definitely has super documentation pages (thanks, hgm!). But being micro makes it very difficult to read and work through it's logic in the actual code. For a teaching tool, I think we could benefit from "medium-Max", a micro-Max with real variable names, normal formatting, and loops that have standard logic instead of being super-compact.
I've been looking at micro-Max, trying to understand the qualities that make it as good as it is, for as simple as it is, but it is a real challenge to unravel the actual code in its compact state.
mjlef wrote:The wiki also has links to pubic source chess programs so you can see how others have done things.
It does not seem to have a link to micro-Max, which is the simplest public source program, with the most elaborate explanations on its algorithms! (34 webpages of explanation on ~100 lines of code!)
micro-Max definitely has super documentation pages (thanks, hgm!). But being micro makes it very difficult to read and work through it's logic in the actual code. For a teaching tool, I think we could benefit from "medium-Max", a micro-Max with real variable names, normal formatting, and loops that have standard logic instead of being super-compact.
I've been looking at micro-Max, trying to understand the qualities that make it as good as it is, for as simple as it is, but it is a real challenge to unravel the actual code in its compact state.
