nnue-pytorch
Stockfish NNUE (Chess evaluation) trainer in Pytorch (by official-stockfish)
fishtest
The Stockfish testing framework (by official-stockfish)
| nnue-pytorch | fishtest | |
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| 14 | 23 | |
| 283 | 255 | |
| 3.5% | 1.2% | |
| 6.3 | 9.1 | |
| about 1 month ago | 6 days ago | |
| C++ | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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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.
fishtest
Posts with mentions or reviews of fishtest.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.
- Discussion on whether a buffer overflow bug involving illegal positions in Stockfish (#1 ranked chess engine) could lead to remote code execution on the user's machine
- Getting Projects to Attach on old BOINC Versions
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Interested in creating, playing and testing your own chess engine?
you can have a look at openbench maybe, https://github.com/AndyGrant/OpenBench . It is currently a testing framework for chess engines (only invited ones) or fishtest. https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests Stockfish testing framework. Both of these test if change A beats the master version using statistics. Both look at the git repository and download it and create/compile the engine, that might be another solution for you.
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Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
[4]: https://github.com/glinscott/fishtest/wiki/Regression-Tests#...
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~20TBs on Striped Hard Drives / RAID0: What kind of hardware to support this setup?
FishTest has thousands of computers running 24/7 https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests. Nerds at gcp,aws,universities burn thousands of GPU hours on lc0-client just to watch their GPUs warm up. They aren't just attaching 20tb of endgames to an old macbook.
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Does (human + computer) combo beat computer?
if removing any rng from stockfish would gain elo it would be merged. If you think it gains elo feel free to submit a test to https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests , but it doesn't so what your saying makes no sense.
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What are some chess960 positions that are winning for white
Where did you get these numbers from? https://github.com/glinscott/fishtest/wiki/Regression-Tests shows an elo difference of 351.3 elo points. This is further exaggerated by the fact that sf9 lacks nnue and is particularly weak at the starting position and consequently 960 starting positions.
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Stockfish 15 is now available
In https://github.com/glinscott/fishtest/wiki/Regression-Tests you can see 8moves_v3.pgn opening book (09/11/2013 - current) with a link:
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What makes SF15 better than 14? I mean, what do they do/program to improve performance?
You can see the various code changes in https://github.com/glinscott/fishtest/wiki/Regression-Tests . Both the actual change and the elo change from the code change.
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Stockfish 15 is ready!
Current progression test is still in progress but you can see all of the previous ones here: https://github.com/glinscott/fishtest/wiki/Regression-Tests
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nnue-pytorch and fishtest you can also consider the following projects:
Ceres - Ceres - an MCTS chess engine for research and recreation
Stockfish - A free and strong UCI chess engine
fishnet - Distributed Stockfish analysis for lichess.org
KataGo - GTP engine and self-play learning in Go
FatTitz - A chess engine based on cfish.
irwin - irwin - the protector of lichess from all chess players villainous
maia-chess - Maia is a human-like neural network chess engine trained on millions of human games.
Koivisto - UCI Chess engine
chessx - Sources of the official ChessX version.
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