The code was a mess, and the program was slow af, but it was an amazing learning experience.

  • @k_o_t
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    22 years ago

    heh, that’s an… untraditional approach to chess algorithms :)

    i’m very curious what the elo score for such an algorithm would be? have you tried to pair it against another bot to measure the score?

    • @gun
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      2 years ago

      It’s actually not. Minimax has been used lots of times for chess AI in the past. There are probably better techniques that are used these days though.

      Edit: when you search chess ai on YouTube, the top three videos are tutorials that use minimax, each with over a million views