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First of all I am not a professional programmer, but a student with a programming hobby so I am sorry if my question is stupid.

I want to write a chess engine to be used on the web and had already started writing it in JavaScript. After searching around I however found out that JavaScript is not ideal for this task. I have already written the user interface in JavaScript and would prefer if I could keep it while rewriting the game logic in python. Is this possible?

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JavaScript is no less ideal for this task than Python. – Fengyang Wang Sep 11 at 0:42
    
@FengyangWang The problem with JavaScript is that I want to use a bitboard, which requires 64-bit integers. JavaScript only has "53-bit" floating point numbers. – Lasse Møldrup Sep 11 at 1:47
    
It is possible to make very effective chess AI without bit boards. I won a tournament without them. – CandiedOrange Sep 11 at 1:50
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Python does not have built-in 64-bit integers either (int will not be as fast as native 64-bit ints, even in Python 2, because of overflow checks); if your goal is performance, you will not get it with either language. To use 64-bit integers in JavaScript, it is typical to use a library which offers them. – Fengyang Wang Sep 11 at 1:51
    
Additionally, bitboards do not actually need full support of 64-bit integers; it suffices to pass around a pair of 32-bit integers containing the high and low bits. – Fengyang Wang Sep 11 at 1:52
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As you can see in the comments python will not resolve all your problems. But you can you use third-party libraries.

Also you can you some web-frameworks to make web-site with Java-script UI but Python logic.

Flask will be a good boilerplate for you.

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