Balrog - An AI Chess Engine
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Game playing is one of the most important areas in AI. Chess is a very popular two-player strategy board game. In the context of AI, chess falls under the category of adversarial games where the opponent tries to reduce your chance of winning as much as possible. Being a classic example of a two-player zero sum game (sum of the utilities of agent and opponent is zero), the game of chess provides a natural platform for testing new advances in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
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