| Computer Chess Links |
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| Watch live computer chess See the best engines duke it out at TCEC or Chess.com Watch Leela Chess Zero (and other Lc0 flavors) get tested on Twitch or YouTube at @edosani, @potato_chess, @brinansee, Mark Young, and sometimes @westportchess |
| Free chess engines - Here are some of the strongest asmFish, BrainFish, CorChess, Ethereal, Fire, Fizbo, Komodo 9, Laser, Raubfisch, ShashChess, Stockfish, Stockfish DEV (development) versions, ThothFish, Xiphos, and many more at Computer-Chess.org. We also have some computer chess engines to download here. |
| Free AI chess engines Leela Chess Zero (Lc0) - an AI engine Download the latest release here ("blas" for CPU-only; "cuda" for NVIDIA GPUs; or "OpenCL" for other GPUs). Here is an installation guide. You need to download a neural network. Here is a list of the strongest AI neural networks for LeelaChessZero. We have several of the strongest Lc0 neural nets (a.k.a. weights files) backed up on our site here. |
| Chess engine rankings and ratings lists Computer Chess Ratings List (CCRL), Chess Engine Grand Testing (CEGT), and IPManChess |
| Opening books for engine testing Stefan Pohl has good opening books. Here are some of the chess engine opening books we like. |
| Endgame tablebase (EGTBs) downloads Sesse.net, Shredder Chess, or Syzygy-Tables.info |
| Free computer chess GUIs Arena chess GUI, Banksia chess GUI, "ChessGUI", Cute Chess GUI, Lucas Chess, Nibbler - the chess GUI made specifically for Lc0, SCID, and Zentropy. We have backups of those programs and more chess GUIs here. |
Free computer chess utilities Bayesian Elo calculator, Ordo ratings calculator, and PGN Scanner 0.92. We have backups of those programs and more chess utilities here. |
| Tactical test suites How good is your engine at solving tactical or endgame problems? Use a test suite to find out. We have the Arasan Chess test suite, the Eigenmann test suite, the AH Tactics suite and AH Endgame test suite, and others for download here. |
| Chess forums TalkChess.com, Lc0 Discord, Stockfish Discord |
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