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So did some research.... Fairy would help with search tree accuracy but it's not expressive enough to cover everything, you can't encode "no captures for 5 mov

by vigrant 7mo ago

So did some research.... Fairy would help with search tree accuracy but it's not expressive enough to cover everything, you can't encode "no captures for 5 moves" in an INI config. I'd still need the JS filtering layer for dynamic constraints, so you would end up in the same place with those cases.

vunderba 7mo ago
Ah yeah that'll get complicated quickly. :( It'd be nice if stockfish or its variants exposed the "ply searcher" with some kind of a callback so you could quickly kill a ply based on your custom constraints. When I was doing some research into rolling my own chess engine about 5 years ago I stumbled across this: https://github.com/josefjadrny/js-chess-engine https://github.com/josefjadrny/js-chess-engine But you'd have to modify its minimax search and now we're getting pretty deep down the rabbit hole. Either way, good luck!