I’ve massively improved my organisation! I’m now properly utilising branches which is allowing me to work on multiple changes at the same time. Currently I am working on 2 branches. One is about improving my maintainability by adding comments so that other people can understand what I am doing and why. This also has the added benefit of me being able to make some small improvements and bug fixes as I am reading through all of my code. The second branch is about move ordering which is super important as it makes my alpha beta pruning more effective. Working on these changes on branches is useful because it not only keeps it organised and easy to see what each commit is for but also means that if I decide I don’t want the change anymore it is easy to remove as it isn’t mixed in with all the other changes. To help with this I’ve also created a Jira board which helps me keep my ideas organised. My branches are called SCRUM-NUMBER/NAME. The scrum number is given to me by Jira. As well as improving my organisation I also further improved my zobrist hashing by replacing using modulo on the hash to get the index of the transposition with using an and gate between my hash and the table size - 1 (which is just all 1s and a single 0 on the left most digit since the table size is a power of 2). I also stored my castle rights as a single 4 digit binary digit where each digit represents whether a certain rook has castling rights or not. My logic with this was since the point of bitboards is 12 integer is better than 64 integers, a single 4 digit integer is better than a dictionary of 4 values but I am not actually sure if this is true or not. On the maintainability branch so far I have added comments to all of main.py. On the move ordering branch I have improved my sorting from just sorting by most valuable capture and least valuable attacker which is only good for captures to also scoring promotions very highly. I also instantly push the previous best move to the front of the queue and score moves which cutoff branches in alpha beta pruning highly as well. Next I will try to add comments to one of my other files and improve my move ordering by not using lambda functions.