Piece by Piece: Building a Strong Chess Engine

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Damir
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Piece by Piece: Building a Strong Chess Engine

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A manual how to build a strong Chess Engine, by .Sander Vrzina

https://www.cs.vu.nl/~wanf/theses/vrzina-bscthesis.pdf
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Re: Piece by Piece: Building a Strong Chess Engine

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'Strong' apparently meaning 2400 Elo CCRL...
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Re: Piece by Piece: Building a Strong Chess Engine

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hgm wrote: Sun Nov 16, 2025 9:29 pm'Strong' apparently meaning 2400 Elo CCRL...
Quite good for a bachelor thesis with typically maybe 300 hours of work. Not just for the coding, but also reading the referenced literature, at least superficially, and writing the thesis document itself. And probably not the most experienced programmer yet.
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