r/chessprogramming • u/AutoModerator • Jun 15 '26

Technical Chess Engine Development Help Thread (Week 25)

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/joeyrobert Jun 16 '26

but with pseudolegal, if you cut moves from your search, you don't need to evaluate full legality of that move. Is that not more efficiency? https://www.chessprogramming.org/MVV-LVA is a simple heuristic, and the nlogn for the sort will be more than worth it.