Using Haskell to debug a C chess engine (opens in new tab)

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125 pointsmrkgnao8y ago5 comments

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nandemo8y ago· 2 in thread

Personally, I think an engine written in Haskell would be more interesting. Given how ridiculously strong some engines are when running on commodity hardware, a little performance hit wouldn't be the end of the world.

MichaelBurge8y ago

I probably won't do an article on it, but I did have a couple-years old Shogi engine in Haskell:

Implementation: https://bitbucket.org/MichaelBurge/shogi/src/f2370832b328ae1...

Tests: https://bitbucket.org/MichaelBurge/shogi/src/f2370832b328ae1...

The code & style are pretty similar between the Haskell and the C. I found the C easier to write: The C engine was written and debugged within about 3 days, while the Haskell Shogi engine has a couple weeks of commits.

thomasvarney7238y ago

Why do you think the C was easier to write?

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icantrank8y ago

do it with checkers

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