I have released my strong python engine which uses NNUE!

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Full name: Jonathan Rosenthal

Re: I have released my strong python engine which uses NNUE!

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dimdano wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 12:46 am
alvinypeng wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 9:05 pm
Always awesome to see new python chess engines! I'd love to test out the validity of this claim at some point.
JacquesRW wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 1:30 am Antares (https://github.com/Alex2262/Antares), another python engine, is about 225 elo stronger than numbfish in my (very brief) test at 1min+0.5s, in CCRL terms it places numbfish around 1800-2000 elo.
Great! Didn't know such engines existed! That's why I said the word "probably" :lol: My aim was not to create the strongest python engine because this would add a lot more lines of code and ruin my python programming motive. I wanted to create a NNUE evaluation without adding many more lines in the existing engine of Sunfish. Surely you must have included some advanced chess tricks into your engines so I guess it is normal yours can beat mine! :)
It's a strong claim to make, and in my opinion its a bit insulting to claim your sub-2k Elo program is "probably" the best python engine.

I am curious though, is it the weakest engine relying on an SF net as a crutch?
-Jonathan