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January 2021

A Brief Guide to Stockfish NNUE

In my last two posts, I gave brief overviews to two of the more established paradigms for chess engines, represented by Stockfish and AlphaZero. In this post, I will go over the latest engine on the block – Stockfish NNUE. NNUE was integrated into the main Stockfish branch in late Read more…

By Saumik, 2 yearsJanuary 24, 2021 ago

A Brief Guide to Neural Network Chess Engines

Last week, I wrote an article explaining the basics on traditional chess engines. Today, I will go over the new generation of chess engines, using neural networks instead of brute force evaluation. History For decades, neural networks were thought to be inferior to traditional brute-force engines because training a strong Read more…

By Saumik, 2 yearsJanuary 17, 2021 ago

A Brief Guide to Traditional Chess Engines

Over the next few posts, I’ll be writing a series on how chess engines work. This isn’t intended to be an authoritative, in-depth guide on engines, but just a quick summary on the different types of chess engines, and how they compare against each other. History of Chess Engines Chess Read more…

By Saumik, 2 yearsJanuary 10, 2021 ago

Learning Colloquial Tamil

With the first semester of my PhD finally complete, I now have a few weeks of winter break before my classes start again at the end of January. To fill up my time, I’ve decided to try and pick up Tamil. In this post, I’ll go over some of the Read more…

By Saumik, 2 yearsJanuary 3, 2021 ago
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