neural_network_chess
Free Book about Deep-Learning approaches for Chess (like AlphaZero, Leela Chess Zero and Stockfish NNUE) (by asdfjkl)
nnue-pytorch
Stockfish NNUE (Chess evaluation) trainer in Pytorch (by official-stockfish)
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| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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neural_network_chess
Posts with mentions or reviews of neural_network_chess.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-13.
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A question about training chess engines
Basically, MCTS is used in combination with reinforcement learning. This ensures that we get better evaluations for non terminal positions in training games. You might want to have a look at my free book @ https://github.com/asdfjkl/neural_network_chess
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Why does the compiler *partially* vectorize my code?
So consider instead keeping a running score of the position, rather than recalculating it in full every time. One of the main tricks behind Stockfish NNUE, the current top chess engine, is a clever way of not needing to fully recalculate the full neural net every time, but to do a delta update for each move for a substantial part of the network. I forget the main paper about that, but you can read about it in https://github.com/asdfjkl/neural_network_chess.
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Resources for learning and implementing a NNUE for a chess engine?
My book https://github.com/asdfjkl/neural_network_chess covers some of these topics...
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[D] Machine Learning - WAYR (What Are You Reading) - Week 122
Neural Networks For Chess
- [R] Neural Networks For Chess
- Neural Networks For Chess
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Book about AlphaZero, Stockfish NNUE and neural networks in chess
Shameless self-plug: I wrote a book about neural networks in chess and you can get a free PDF here https://github.com/asdfjkl/neural_network_chess (no ads, no fremium)
- Neural Networks for Chess
nnue-pytorch
Posts with mentions or reviews of nnue-pytorch.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-22.
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Are Super-GMs far more cautious in opening choice than they were even ten years ago?
There's extremely detailed information on how Stockfish's neural network evaluation works, but none of this will tell you the why of why the engines' assessment changed: https://github.com/glinscott/nnue-pytorch/blob/master/docs/nnue.md
- Why are people using bitboards for chess input?
- Resources for learning and implementing a NNUE for a chess engine?
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I am the first author of Stockfish. Ask me anything.
If you want a readable explanation of all the details, this document is phenomenal.
- What's a simple engine to modify? (Preferably in Python)
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"RL Fine-Tuning: Scalable Online Planning via Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning", Fickinger et al 2021 {FB}
Getting SOTA in chess would be earth-shattering, especially since Stockfish has now adopted very light-weight NNs (called NNUE) and has doubled down on alpha-beta search, regaining the upper hand against A0 style programs.
- Where would an absolute beginner to neural networks start when trying to learn how to build a NNUE evaluation function?
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Stockfish 14 Released
Stockfish NNUE is deep network. You can find out more about it's architecture and internal working here:
https://github.com/glinscott/nnue-pytorch/blob/master/docs/n...
It's pretty interesting read.
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Official release version of Stockfish 14
[0] https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/60dae5363beab81350aca077 [1] https://nextchessmove.com/dev-builds [2] https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2021/stockfish-13/ [3] https://lczero.org/blog/2021/06/the-importance-of-open-data/ [4] https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/commit/e8d64af1 [5] https://github.com/glinscott/nnue-pytorch/ [6] https://stockfishchess.org/get-involved/
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How do Neural Networks work?
https://github.com/glinscott/nnue-pytorch/blob/master/docs/nnue.md There is some info there.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing neural_network_chess and nnue-pytorch you can also consider the following projects:
alpha-zero-boosted - A "build to learn" Alpha Zero implementation using Gradient Boosted Decision Trees (LightGBM)
Ceres - Ceres - an MCTS chess engine for research and recreation
python-chess - A chess library for Python, with move generation and validation, PGN parsing and writing, Polyglot opening book reading, Gaviota tablebase probing, Syzygy tablebase probing, and UCI/XBoard engine communication
Stockfish - A free and strong UCI chess engine
maia-chess - Maia is a human-like neural network chess engine trained on millions of human games.
KataGo - GTP engine and self-play learning in Go
lichess-bot - A bridge between Lichess API and chess engines
irwin - irwin - the protector of lichess from all chess players villainous
boardlaw - Scaling scaling laws with board games.
Koivisto - UCI Chess engine
chess - Program for playing chess in the console against AI or human opponents
fishtest - The Stockfish testing framework
neural_network_chess vs alpha-zero-boosted
nnue-pytorch vs Ceres
neural_network_chess vs python-chess
nnue-pytorch vs Stockfish
neural_network_chess vs maia-chess
nnue-pytorch vs KataGo
neural_network_chess vs lichess-bot
nnue-pytorch vs irwin
neural_network_chess vs boardlaw
nnue-pytorch vs Koivisto
neural_network_chess vs chess
nnue-pytorch vs fishtest