I am back but what is ....

[CRoberson]

After a series of health issues over the last 3 years, I am back.
Since I am out of date:
o What is the preferred GUI/interface for engine testing?
o What is the preferred opening books for engine testing or is it a set of starting positions?
o What about eval tuning? I am aware of and understand all the NN theory and practice.

[smatovic]

Welcome back Mr. Roberson:

o What is the preferred GUI/interface for engine testing?

Cutechess-cli
https://www.chessprogramming.org/Cutechess-cli

nice one, built in SPRT:
https://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewto ... =7&t=76370

o What is the preferred opening books for engine testing or is it a set of starting positions?

Idk for sure. IIRC SF started to use unbalanced UHO books?
https://github.com/official-stockfish/books

o What about eval tuning? I am aware of and understand all the NN theory and practice.

I like "Neural Networks for Chess" by Dominik Klein:
https://github.com/asdfjkl/neural_network_chess
https://github.com/asdfjkl/neural_netwo ... s/releases

Question might be:

- generate own datasets for training NNs or to use SF/Lc0 data sets?
https://github.com/glinscott/nnue-pytor ... g-datasets

- come up with own NN arch/trainer or use SF nnue-pytorch?
https://github.com/glinscott/nnue-pytorch


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Srdja