Chess AI

Chess AI involves 3 discreet steps -

Minimax - opponent at best play

Alpha Beta pruning - Truncation of the B tree at a certain depth

Monte Carlo - Assigning numbers to evaluate choices

While the languages used is mostly C++ eg. Komodo the technique is the same

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