Wtf is happening, my people are acting as if their messiah has arrived

Ethiopian speed isn't speeding 🤭

This is just unbelievable💔

RIP

Seems familiar?😁

Senegal got robbed ngl

Pure robbery in daylight

Wtff how tf did he miss? Intentionally?

Ive officially started working on my own chess engine (Oxide) using rust

I began with pawn and knight move generation, and for now im keeping things simple and readable instead of jumping straight into heavy optimizations. The knights are generated using straightforward (file, rank) offsets... check all 8 possible jumps, make sure the target square is on the board, and allow the move if its empty or holds an enemy piece.

Its not bitboards yet, but its easy to reason about and hard to get wrong, which is exactly what I want at this stage. I’ve also finished pawn move generation, so the engine can already produce a decent chunk of legal moves.

Next up are sliding pieces (bishops, rooks, queens), which is where things start getting more interesting. Once thats done, I’ll probably revisit move gen and optimize.

Finally feels good to actually be building this instead of just thinking about it. ♟

#Oxide #ChessEngine #Rust

Knight moves are interesting because they ignore blockers and jump directly to their target squares
That makes their move set fixed and predictable, unlike sliding pieces.

I will add more contents under the comment section (like threads), inspired by @frectonz

We got to interview @chapidevtalks for Devtopia.

We talked about his experience freelancing and his professional work here in Ethiopia and abroad. We also had a big discussion on how he deploys his projects.

It is a great episode, check it out.

[Devtopia - E08 - Chapi]

Time to build frontend with Rust (Leptos). We will see how this goes :)

Its going to be excruciating

dang, people even use pure C to program UIs

https://youtu.be/SRgLA8X5N_4

Please anyone who has experience with leptos or any rust frontend framework help me with the dependency errors (it just is not working, ig there is some issue with crates.io)

we tried to create the computer in our image, and now the computer is slowly re-creating us in its image