LeelaChessZero/lc0

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Open source neural network chess engine with GPU acceleration and broad hardware support.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2018-08-05 · latest 2026-01-27

Mentions per year 9 mentions · busiest year 2020 (3)

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Claude Code Ported LeelaChessZero CUDA Back End to ROCm: End of CUDA Moat
story by CalChris · 2026-01-27 · 0 comments
…of Cuda. I wrote a lot of that code including Winograd convolution routines. Leela Chess Zero ( https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0 ) has much more optimized Cuda backend targeting modern GPU architectures and it's written by much more…
comment by henrikf · 2025-06-08 · in Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level
…to seek out/avoid sharp lines. lc0 and nibbler are free, so feel free to try it out if curious. https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/pull/1791#issuecomment... https://lczero.org/blog/2023/07/the-lc0-v0.30.0-wdl-rescale/...
comment by rieska · 2024-12-12 · in Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history
…networks based on AlphaZero architecture. [1] https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish [2] https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0
comment by Ambix · 2021-04-09 · in CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
Aren't both Leela and Stockfish both freely available? https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0 https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish
comment by AzN1337c0d3r · 2020-12-15 · in Shallow Trees with Heavy Leaves
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Modern solvers: Problems well-defined are problems solved
story by _ZeD_ · 2020-04-18 · 0 comments
…of the mighty Deep Mind AlphaZero chess engine - linux installation instructions for lc0 are here: https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/blob/master/README.md
comment by scorecard · 2020-04-08 · in What's your favorite free game that runs on Linux, and teaches you something?
…that freedom. You can download the weights for LCZero right now though and try out your theory. https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/wiki/Getting-Started
comment by IanCal · 2018-12-29 · in How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games
…now because it's ended up contributing an awful lot of games to LeelaZero, the AlphaZero cone: https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/wiki/Run-Leela-Chess-Z...
comment by thom · 2018-08-05 · in Colaboratory, a free cloud based Jupyter notebook environment requires no setup