Good luck! :)

@@SebastianLague How different is c# from c++? I already have some experience with the latter and I'm considering this as an opportunity to know more about c# (which I barely know).

@@danielcreatd872knowing c++ will make c# much easier to pick up

No matter how it results, you will emerge the winner. Best wishes!

@@danielcreatd872 C# is way easier. No pointers to begin with and a rather more intuitiv "standard library".

What language is this? sorry im kind of new in IDEs and direct code

Are there consequences, like bugs/broken logic, for speedhacking the project? Running 1000 games felt incredibly slow, even at ~1.5 seconds per game, I've set minDelay to zero, but still too slow, so I used CheatEngine to speedhack up to x100 of real time. There were no timeouts for ~600 games and scores kept same proportion, so I assume there are no side effects. Is there any sort of "maximum speed" switch in the project that I missed?

Oh man I totally would have spent days wondering what was going wrong if I didn't check the comments here

This is a good time to learn C#, I only know Java and a tiny bit of C++, my bot will most defently lose Edit: off to a good start, took me 30 minutes to figure out how to run the game, and I don't understand anything.

sounds fun 😮

LOL same

It encourages variable and function names to be readable. Not necessarily code. There are plenty of ridiculous tricks with side effects these you can use to save space.

Awesome, I hope you have fun with it!

Great, I’m happy to hear that! Good luck :)

yeah i had a feeling that somehow someone would port stockfish to c# and dominate everyone else

What’s a complexity weight class?

@@user-dh8oi2mk4f i would assume dividing it up so that only bots with similar complexity would compete. For example if your code used all 1024 thingamajigs it would not compete with a bot that only uses 512

Awesome, good luck!

adhd twins

But it already shows the token count?

@@user-dh8oi2mk4f Sure, most time went into very unnecessary optimisations :D

We are incredibly lucky to have Sebastian alive at our time!

@@peterszilvasi752 he is our savior XD

Does your vacation extend all the way to October 1st? That's the deadline

@@user-dh8oi2mk4f No but Id have to learn C# which I prefer not to.

@@PeonyNopesC# isn’t that hard to learn, and you’d only need the basics since you wouldn’t be working with super specific things in this competition. C# is basically Java but with a lot of extra features (most of which are unnecessary and IMHO poorly designed, such as the delegate system). System.Linq kind of Pythonizes C#, too, so it can be really fun to use.

@@JordanMetroidManiac It's not that I think C# is hard. It's that: a) I am stupid. b) All the C# dev tools have to be complicated and hard to use ;~;. c) If the syntax highlighting isn't just right I get overloaded and worst case physically sick. I have my own conventions for the languages I normally use to well, prevent that from happening, which does include violating syntax conventions sometimes and figuring that out for a language with so much "unnecessary syntax" sounds like a pain.

@@PeonyNopes Ah, okay. If you code at all, then you couldn’t be stupid 😂 You’re definitely smart enough to grasp the basics of C# because variable assignment, variable typing, loops, method signatures, object instantiation, and mathematical operations are all identical to Java in the syntax, and Java is known to be a high-level object-oriented language with standard syntax conventions. All the weird parts of C# were added later once C# already had all the features of Java. Microsoft initially designed C# to be equivalent to Java, but they still wanted it to be superior, in true capitalistic fashion.

If you don't want to, you don't have to, but there is lots of documentation for chess coding, which can help a lot. I'd recommend giving it a try anyway, and seeing how well you do :)

I haven't played in a few years, but gladiabots is awesome!

I actually had this game idea a long time ago. Like BattleBots, but as a video game, and you code how it behaves as well. Funny that there are now several games with this idea. Pretty sure there were none when I first thought about it.

Its a double edged sword though. Making a very good bot in a few, efficient lines is gonna be really hard