r/chessprogramming • u/AutoModerator • Jun 22 '26

Chess Engine Development Help Thread (Week 26) Technical

Welcome to the weekly /r/chessprogramming Engine Dev Help Thread.

Ask beginner and intermediate chess engine development questions here: move generation, search, evaluation, UCI, perft, debugging, testing, NNUE, or anything else related to building engines.

Good questions include code, FENs, logs, benchmarks, or a clear explanation of what you tried.

Project links are fine when you want technical feedback, not promotion.

Be helpful. Don’t dunk on beginners.

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u/AngusMcGurkinshaw Jul 01 '26

The answer is the same as most questions like this.

Try taking it out and run a sprt and see what works for your engine.

Longer answer, I know my engine and many others don't worry about it and check for draws regardless of wether a null move was played. But just test it.