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Hey, I'm Niklas! I like to write about anything that crosses my mind, most of which is related to computers.

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How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail

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A Chess-AI is something every programmer should build at least once and [Sebastian Lague’s](https://www.youtube.com/@SebastianLague) [competition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iScy18pVR58) was the perfect opportunity for me to do so. Constrained to 1024 tokens I wanted to implement an evaluation function similar to…