I’m working on my little chess engine in C#, and I want to make my search function run in the background. (so that the UI is still interactable) I checked some other stackoverflow solutions talking about the async and await keywords (also about Task.Run()). But I’m at the beginner level. I could not understand what was going on, and I could not make it work for my code.

Here’s my sample code:

public static Move GetMove()
{
    // This function is called every frame if it is the engine's turn
    // Your solution goes here
}

engine.StartSearch() function starts a search, and it will probably take some time to finish. You can grab the result(Move) by calling engine.GetMove() after a search.

How can I make a background task for the search, and how do I make it wait for the result?

I have tried using async and await keywords but I don’t understand how it works..