Creating a Chess Algorithm using Deep Learning and Monte Carlo Methods

Getting the best of both worlds

Victor Sim
Towards Data Science
5 min readNov 19, 2020

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Photo by Tyler Lastovich on Unsplash

Over the past few weeks I have tried two distinct approaches to create a chess algorithm that can play with great strategic depth without looking too far ahead and blundering.

The first method I used was to convert chess moves and chess boards into one-hot encoding…

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