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What I really would like to see explained: how chess for the Atari 2600 worked.
by marcodiego 4y ago
What I really would like to see explained: how chess for the Atari 2600 worked.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoMore or less like Stockfish of today, most likely, except much more constrained: No parallel search. Much less reliance on lookup tables due to memory constraints. Simpler evaluation function. But fundamentally the architecture of engines in those days was more or less the same: alphabeta(or some variation of it), with quiescence search and a static evaluation function, likely using piece-square tables. Lookup these things on chess programming wiki for a more detailed exposition.