maia-chess VS Stockfish

Compare maia-chess vs Stockfish and see what are their differences.

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maia-chess Stockfish
97 1
891 99
3.1% -
1.6 0.0
9 months ago almost 3 years ago
Python C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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maia-chess

Posts with mentions or reviews of maia-chess. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-06.

Stockfish

Posts with mentions or reviews of Stockfish. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-03.
  • What have we learned from the best chess engines? What rules have they confirmed, modified or rejected in the old chess theory?
    2 projects | /r/chess | 3 May 2021
    Well the main replies were like "if you can make it 100 elo better than you should be able to pass fishtest w/o any problem". Also I really like this part of the post: "(As a side note, another shogi engine developer (@nodchip on Twitter) is trying out his new shogi evaluation function within Stockfish. The new eval, called NNUE, brought many Elo gains and all the top engines now use it. It was Nodchip's fiddling with Stockfish that led the YaneuraOu developer to make this blog post in first place. https://github.com/nodchip/Stockfish )" and this is indeed what happened - NNUE was made to SF by nodchip. So idk. If you give up at stage of setting up test to fishtest you probably wouldn't be able to bring elo anyway because making it work is much more simple than developing NNUE.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing maia-chess and Stockfish you can also consider the following projects:

stockfish - Integrates the Stockfish chess engine with Python

lc0 - The rewritten engine, originally for tensorflow. Now all other backends have been ported here.

Winter - UCI Chess Engine

zahak - A UCI compatible chess AI in Go

Stockfish - A free and strong UCI chess engine

lila - ♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞

MongoDB - The MongoDB Database

Auto-Chess - A chess bot that automatically calculates the best moves and plays them for you

pgnToFen - Takes PGN as input and returns FEN

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neural_network_chess - Free Book about Deep-Learning approaches for Chess (like AlphaZero, Leela Chess Zero and Stockfish NNUE)