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…
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…
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…
Update – July 20, 2023 I’ve written two more blog posts on the topic of Colloquial Tamil. The first is an update to this post with a few additional learning resources I’ve found as well as published Anki decks. The second is a guide on how to read and pronounce Read more…