Resources - kirillbobyrev/pabi GitHub Wiki

Here is a list of useful resources to draw the ideas from. Also, see a list of chess-related repositories on GitHub.

Web pages

• Chess Programming Wiki
• Bruce Moreland articles
• Robert Hyatt articles

Papers

• Pruning Game Tree by Rollouts
• Thinking Fast and Slow with Deep Learning and Tree Search
• Watch the Unobserved: A Simple Approach to Parallelizing Monte Carlo Tree Search
• Temporal difference learning and TD-Gammon
• TD-Gammon, a self-teaching backgammon program, achieves master-level play
• A Rollout-Based Search Algorithm Unifying MCTS and Alpha-Beta
• A Survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods
• Learning to Search with MCTSnets
• Batch Monte Carlo Tree Search
• Monte Carlo Tree Search: A Review of Recent Modifications and Applications
• On Effective Parallelization of Monte Carlo Tree Search
• The Second Type of Uncertainty in Monte Carlo Tree Search
• Dual Monte Carlo Tree Search
• Player of Games

Engines with papers and code

Popular and influential ones

• Stockfish
  • Stockfish Evaluation Guide
• Leela Chess 0 (lc0) (as an Open Source version of Alpha Go Zero)
  • Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search (The Alpha Go Paper)
  • Alpha Go Zero Cheat Sheet
  • Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge (The Alpha Go Paper)
  • MuZero
• Ceres
  • Blog post on major search ideas
• Crazy Ara
  • Improving AlphaZero Using Monte-Carlo Graph Search
  • Learning to play the Chess Variant Crazyhouse above World Champion Level with Deep Neural Networks and Human Data
  • Assessing Popular Chess Variants Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning for Crazyhouse
• Ethereal
  • Tuning
• Slow Chess
  • Strength
  • Implementation
  • Automatic Tuning & Learning for Slow Chess Blitz Classic
• Pleco

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• shakmaty is not a chess engine but an implantation of most important routines in Rust. A good reference to compare my imlpementations to.
• Walleye is a medium-strength chess engine in Rust with a good implementation.
• Very fast move generator in Rust

Go Engines

• KataGo
  • Accelerating Self-Play Learning in Go

Testing environments

These environments can be used to estimate Pabi performance (ELO) and see it play agains other engines.

• The Chess.com Computer Chess Championship (CCCC)
  • Information about CCCC
• TCEC

Training games

• CCRL
• lc0 self-play games training data, e.g. this one on GDrive: taken from Stockfish commit from lc0 blog post

Misc

• Chess Engine in C video series on YouTube
• https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/pull/963
• Simple AlphaZero Tutorial
• https://github.com/asdfjkl/neural_network_chess
• https://github.com/maxpumperla/deep_learning_and_the_game_of_go
• On the Road to Perfection? Evaluating Leela Chess Zero Against Endgame Tablebases