Comment by thom
7 years ago
Yeah, I totally agree that eval + search is the first step to learn, in terms of overall structure. And this includes lots of important concepts like quiescence search etc. I just think it's worth being honest: you either need really good eval or really fast search just to give _yourself_ a good game.
You are welcome to try to play my rust rewrite of this exact engine on lichess https://lichess.org/@/sunfish_rs
If you're not a top 5% player, it can absolutely give you a good game (especially on fast time controls)
That is cool! I've thought about making a rust version of Sunfish, and I didn't even know this existed!