The source is not intended to be readable. The glory is in the 1433 characters total (or 133 lines, if you prefer that metric). Everyone knows that it is artifi

The source is not intended to be readable. The glory is in the 1433 characters total (or 133 lines, if you prefer that metric). Everyone knows that it is artificial, but it does not matter. The spirit is similar to the 10K Javascript contest (see http://10k.aneventapart.com/ http://10k.aneventapart.com/ ) If you want to try to understand the chess code, the author provides an expanded version with comments that is more readable: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/maximax.txt http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/maximax.txt In order to read the code, it is helpful to understand the basic algorithm (recursive negamax search). Here is a good explanation of minimax, negamax and alphabeta: http://www.hamedahmadi.com/gametree/ http://www.hamedahmadi.com/gametree/