Using Deep Learning to train a Deep Search Chess Algorithm

and understanding how neural networks can be used to indirectly solve problems

Victor Sim
Towards Data Science
6 min readOct 26, 2020

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Photo by Hassan Pasha on Unsplash

In most chess engines, a searching algorithm along with a heuristic function gives the chess AI the main insight into the best moves to play. The bulk of the programming and most of the “brains” behind this is the heuristic function.

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