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A megabyte Pawn hash will get you a long way. It depends a bit on how large your entries are, of course; Pawn hash can be used for many otherwise hard to calculate infos about the Pawn structure other than the overall evaluation, such as what are (half-)open files, what is your most advanced passer...

Thank you for your suggestions. 2) And the risk of hash collisions should only be affected by speed and number of hash table entries, not number of piece types. At least if you do it right. Just have an array of random 64 bit numbers indexed by piece type and location on the board, so as you get mor...

Hello all! Recently I have been working on the AI for my unity game that is can be reduced to be a chess variant. I am completely new to the computer chess and well mostly new to the programming so I have some questions. 1) How people do "levels" in chess engines? As my engine is firstly a game AI, ...