Tag: Refactor

I removed 350 lines of code from MadChess and increased its playing strength by 12 Elo. I’m happy with the ratio. The bulk of changes since my last blog post involve replacing redundant, color-specific code with color-agnostic code, mostly in the Eval class. I replaced code such as this… … with code that’s generalized for multiple pieces and colors. The above is just one example of refactored code. There are many others in PR 22 that adds 2,641 lines of code and removes 3,336 lines of code (net -695 lines of code). This refactoring took a lot of time. I… Continue Reading