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Sunfish

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For people interested in making their own, I highly recommend reading through https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish/blob/master/sunfish.py https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish/blob/master/sunfish.py , a surprisingly readable and surprisingly strong chess engine in 111 lines of Python https://www.chessprogramming.org/ https://www.chessprogramming.org/ is also really interesting, see e.g.
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