secondchess
secondchess is a chess engine by Emilio Díaz, based on firstchess by Pham Hong Nguyen (by emdio)
nnue-pytorch
Stockfish NNUE (Chess evaluation) trainer in Pytorch (by official-stockfish)
| secondchess | nnue-pytorch | |
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| 2 | 14 | |
| 16 | 286 | |
| - | 4.5% | |
| 10.0 | 6.3 | |
| over 5 years ago | 13 days ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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secondchess
Posts with mentions or reviews of secondchess.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.
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Easy to read chess engine source code
Secondchess
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What's a simple engine to modify? (Preferably in Python)
In any case, you can try https://github.com/emdio/secondchess It's written in C, but (hopefully) quite easy to understand/modify.
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 secondchess and nnue-pytorch you can also consider the following projects:
Ethereal - Ethereal, a UCI Chess Engine by Andrew Grant
Ceres - Ceres - an MCTS chess engine for research and recreation