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People perhaps won't remember the long history of computer chess at least how it played out in the 90s There was a succession of interesting engines (I think T
by alex1138 16d ago
People perhaps won't remember the long history of computer chess at least how it played out in the 90s
There was a succession of interesting engines (I think The King used to win a number of computer tournaments, this is the one Chessmaster used, that wonderful audio-visual program, like Encarta but chess related) and then the big three of Fritz (match against Kramnik), Junior (match against Kasparov) and Shredder. And also HIARCS and later, Rybka (and Crafty, as well, touted as the open source chess engine)
Stockfish has been top dog (fish?) for a while now but there was a notable exception when AlphaZero (which later became Leela? I'm not sure) beat it, but these days of course Stockfish is far and away the best engine (I guess. I don't know how far behind Leela is)
And, yes, human vs computer chess has stopped being interesting for a while. There were some centaur chess (human and computer; humans using computers to analyze) competitions in the 2000s and some interesting things but nowadays of course your phone can handedly beat Magnus Carlsen and others without problems, reliably
- kadoban 16d ago> AlphaZero (which later became Leela? I'm not sure) Pretty much. DeepMind never released their code or models, just the main ideas of their techniques and training. Leela, which came out of the go-ai world, implemented the paper(s) and became the de-facto version everyone used for a while until other projects improved over it on both go (mainly katago) and chess (mainly stockfish).
- tsoj 16d agoThe next closest is probably Torch currently
- canucker2016 16d agofrom the TCEC Season 29 Premier Division tournament, Stockfish was first, Reckless v0.9.0 was second, LCZero 0.33 was third, PlentyChess (won tiebreaker) tied with Torch for fourth. see https://tcec-chess.com/#div=p&game=1&season=29 https://tcec-chess.com/#div=p&game=1&season=29 click on the Standings tab to see the results.
- strenholme 16d agoAlpha Zero Chess never made their code or models public. Leela is based on the same ideas as Alpha Zero Chess, but its model and code are public and uses crowd sourcing to generate and refine the model. Stockfish uses a combination of classic Alpha-Beta pruning along with a type of AI called NNUE to evaluate positions.