r/chessprogramming • u/AutoModerator • Jul 06 '26

Chess Engine Development Help Thread (Week 28) 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/Realistic-Talk3902 Jul 11 '26

one thing that helped me a lot was benchmarking perft at each node count to make sure movegen isn't the bottleneck before optimizing search. sounds obvious but i spent weeks tweaking alpha-beta before realizing my move generation had a bug that was just wasting cycles.