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by mrkgnao 3173 days ago
I looked a few things up after Michael's post, and it seems there are a lot of resources and codified idioms around writing chess engines in C. (E.g. tons of bit-twiddling hacks, many related to the fortuitous existence of 64-bit integers. [Not that you can't do those in Haskell.])