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Chess Engine: Ceres


Ceres ("Chess Engine for Research") is: a state-of-the-art UCI-compliant chess engine employing the AlphaZero-style Monte Carlo Tree Search and deep neural networks a flexible, modular and efficient software library with an exposed API to facilitate research in computer chess a set of integrated tools for chess research (e.g for position analysis, suite testing, tournament manager).

The Ceres MCTS engine is a novel implementation written in C# for the Microsoft .NET 5 framework. This system comprises about 50,000 lines of source in 400 source code files, developed as a way to try to make something good come of COVID confinement. The underlying neural networks (and backend code to execute them) and backend code are currently mostly borrowed from the LeelaChessZero project via a "plug-in" architecture.

How to install 

Ceres download


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  1. Can't really get Ceres to work, any tips?

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    1. For instructions, see "How to install" by Stefan Pohl. Link is on page. Greetings

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    2. Link is not broken but something is wrong. "This website is inactive and therefore cannot be accessed. Please contact the operator of this website."

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