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 2020-2021. You can check it out on my github in the “sophia” repo.
Github: github.com/bartekspitza
Sebastian Lague’s Minimax/Alphabeta video: https://youtu.be/l-hh51ncgDI?si=fiZ0GOO9k_lQWCPh
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
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