DM me if you have C++ experience and are interested in collaborating on a chess engine.
I’ve already built a working engine (~2500 tactical strength, ~1800 positional), but with more contributors, we can make it even stronger!

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Something about chess engines:

Almost any engine, even one built by a hobbyist, will outperform humans in tactics. That’s because tactics are concrete and calculable. Engines search millions of positions per second, calculating exact sequences—captures, checks, and mates—using brute-force and clever pruning. The deeper they search, the stronger they get. It’s scalable and precise, and humans simply can’t keep up.

Positional understanding, on the other hand, is abstract. Concepts like pawn structure, space, or long-term weaknesses don’t lead to immediate consequences and can’t be brute-forced. Engines estimate these factors using trained evaluation functions or neural networks, but this process is less exact.

So: tactics are solved by logic, while positional play relies on intuition. That’s why engines, even modest ones, are tactically superior to humans—but still evolving in their positional depth.

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