Chess Engine Journey Ch. 0: Let's build a Chess AI!
So at the end of last year, I started getting more interested in chess. I began playing online, studying puzzles, watching videos, and generally getting engaged in the chess space. Because of this, my recommendations on YouTube started to feature quite a lot of chess related content. That’s how I stumbled upon a video by Sebastian Lague, in which he tries to make a “Chess AI” to play against. I thought that it looked like a fun thing to try, and since I was looking for a coding side-project for a while now, I decided to give it a shot....