nice program : made into Python

[Roelof Berkepeis]

[ this is not a real Issue, i just want to thank you for this little program ]

because the code indeed is really simple, without any tricky bit-shift operations (which are often found in chess engine C-sources), i was able to convert this script into Python .. this way i'm able to adjust & expand the program, because i'm not familiar with C .. mainly your 6 video's are helpful.

i know Python gives rather slow programs compared to C, but for me all this is just for learning .. compiling a binary by pyinstaller (their latest versions works very well, on Linux at least) is a good way to create a somewhat faster version .. i'm now planning to learn ZIG (a new programming language, resembling and accompaning C) and convert my Python code into that.

do you know any other programmers who used your code to create an own engine ?

[ i'm on Xubutu 22.04 ]