Where the chess engine strength is coming from?
Hey what's up guys, Code Monkey King's here.
I'm getting asked this annoying question regarding chess engines' playing strength sources all of the time and this video is intended to answer this burning question ones and forever, well at least conceptually.
In this video I'm breaking down how the vast majority of the modern alpha-beta chess engines work to give an idea regarding the skeleton that gains the muscles until it becomes a real beast.
I'm sorry for expressing my own opinion regarding the playing strength here and there. It was really hard to avoid doing that because the playing strength is something I'm least interested in in chess programming.
Contents:
00:00 Intro
01:42 My page in CPW (Chess Programming Wiki)
03:38 The biggest issue in today's chess programming world
09:45 Breaking down the parts modern chess engine consists of
14:29 Two major reasons to use bitboards
31:33 Highlighting the core parts of alpha-beta search
38:34 Introducing some basic terminology related to alpha-beta search
42:31 A few words on how important the move ordering is in alpha-beta search
50:14 The core gist of my work)))
51:21 A brief overview of my engine WukongJS
56:05 A brief overview of Demolito by Lucasart
01:01:01 A quick look at Wukong's alpha-beta routine
01:13:06 A quick look at Demolito's alpha-beta routine
01:19:10 A quick look at Stockfish's alpha-beta routine
01:27:50 So where the engine's strength come from?
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