Leela Chess Zero

Leela Chess Zero
Original author(s) Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Gary Linscott
Developer(s) Gary Linscott, Alexander Lyashuk, others
Initial release 9 January 2018 (2018-01-09)
Stable release
v0.18.1 / 2 October 2018 (2018-10-02)
Repository
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Type Chess engine
License GPL-3.0
Website lczero.org

Leela Chess Zero is a free and open-source chess engine and distributed computing project. Development has been spearheaded by programmer Gary Linscott, who is also a developer for the Stockfish chess engine. Leela Chess Zero was adapted from the Leela Zero Go engine,[1] which in turn was based on Google's AlphaGo Zero project,[2] also to verify the methods in the AlphaZero paper as applied to the game of chess.

Like Leela Zero and AlphaGo Zero, Leela Chess Zero only knows the basic rules and nothing more.[1] Leela Chess Zero is trained by a distributed computing network coordinated at the Leela Chess Zero website. As of August 2018, it had trained itself by playing over 23 million games of chess against itself.[1]

History

The Leela Chess Zero project was first announced on TalkChess.com on January 9, 2018.[1][3] Within the first few months of training, Leela Chess Zero had already reached the Grandmaster level, surpassing the strength of early releases of Rybka, Stockfish, and Komodo, despite using an MCTS search that checks several orders of magnitude fewer positions.

Competition results

In April 2018, Leela Chess Zero became the first neural network engine to enter the Top Chess Engine Championship, during season 12 in the lowest division, 4.[4] Leela did not perform well: in 28 games, it won one, drew two, and lost the remainder; its sole victory came from a position in which its opponent, Scorpio 2.82, crashed.[5] In July 2018, Leela competed in the 2018 World Computer Chess Championship where it placed seventh out of eight competitors.[6] Leela entered season 13 of the Top Chess Engine Championship at division 4 (the lowest division). It finished first in that division with a record of 14 wins, 12 draws, and 2 losses.[7] Leela advanced to division 3 where it tied for 2nd place with Arasan, but did not advance. (In the event of ties, direct encounters between the tied engines decide promotion.) Its record in division 3 was 7 wins, 18 draws, and 3 losses.[7]

Leela Chess Zero 17.11089 participated in the 2018 Chess.com Computer Chess Championship (CCCC).[8] In round 1, it placed fifth out of 24 entrants. The top eight engines advanced to round 2, where Leela placed fourth.[9][10] Leela then won the 30 game match against Komodo to determine 3rd place in the tournament.[11][12]

Notable games

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Silver, Albert (26 April 2018). "Leela Chess Zero: AlphaZero for the PC". Chess News. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "leela-zero". GitHub. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Announcing lczero". TalkChess.com. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "Breaking: Leela Chess Zero enters TCEC Season 12". Chessdom. 18 April 2018.
  5. ↑ See the season 12 archives at http://tcec.chessdom.com/archive.php
  6. ↑ "World Computer Chess Championship 2018". ICGA. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  7. 1 2 See the season 13 archives at http://tcec.chessdom.com/archive.php
  8. ↑ "Chess.com Computer Chess Championship".
  9. ↑ "CCCC stage 2 ended. Leela 4th with a good performance! Stockfish undefeated!". LCZero Blog. 26 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  10. ↑ Cilento, Pete (26 September 2018). "Stockfish, Houdini Battle For Computer Chess Championship; Komodo vs Lc0 For 3rd". Chess.com. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  11. ↑ "Leela wins the match series against Komodo and wins a Pawn odds game against Stockfish!". LCZero Blog. 3 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  12. ↑ Cilento, Pete (4 October 2018). "Stockfish Wins Computer Chess Championship Rapid; Lc0 Finishes 3rd". Chess.com. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
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