@TotalTaxAmount – Hack Club Scrapbook

Thu, Aug 1

White no longer makes terrible moves on my chess bot, black however... GitHub: github.com/TotalTaxAmount/Iridium Web: www.totaltax.dev/projects/iridium (not up-to-date)

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Wed, Jul 31

Working on some more algorithm stuff, however every one I have tried seems to be having the same/similar issue. Might be with move generation again? I will investigate it tomorrow GitHub: github.com/TotalTaxAmount/Iridium Web: www.totaltax.dev/projects/iridium

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Tue, Jul 30

Working on nega scout, its picking some move, not the best though: GitHub: github.com/TotalTaxAmount/Iridium

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Mon, Jul 29

Started optimizing the movegen and got alphabeta searching almost working, GitHub: github.com/TotalTaxAmount/Iridium *(My screen recording program broke)

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Sun, Jul 28

Got the alpha beta pruning to work, although it might be playing the worst move... GitHub: github.com/TotalTaxAmount/Iridium

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Sun, Jul 28

Got all moves (besides en passent, castling, and promoting) to work + check detection. GitHub: github.com/TotalTaxAmount/Iridium

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Fri, Jul 26

Pawn moves are working in my chess engine, doesn't take in account of checks or en passent yet. GitHub: github.com/TotalTaxAmount/Iridium

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Fri, Jul 26

Working on a chess engine in rust, written from scratch without any chess crates. github.com/TotalTaxAmount/Iridium

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