Chess engine, pt. 1: Getting started 2025-03-06 This post is part of a series about building a chess-playing engine. Introduction (0) | Next part (2) → In this part of the series, I go over all the information you need to write a basic chess engine, one that plays random moves. Such an engine is the hello world of chess; once you get it to run, adding more features is simple. If you follow along…