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Predicts the best chess move with 27.5% accuracy by a single matrix multiplication

5 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2019-06-01 · latest 2020-12-24

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  1. …I'm personally running bits for sunfish https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish and fastchess https://github.com/thomasahle/fastchess There are way too many stockfish clones on there. I hope more hobby chess engine builders will join in.
    comment by thomasahle · 2020-12-24 · in Building My Own Chess Engine
  2. Logistic regression can learn some quite amazing things. I trained a linear function to play chess: https://github.com/thomasahle/fastchess and it manages to predict the next moves of top engine games with 27% accuracy. A benefit of…
    comment by thomasahle · 2020-06-25 · in Logistic regression from scratch
  3. I made similar chess engine using FastText: https://github.com/thomasahle/fastchess It is surprising to me that you can predict optimal/strong engine moves with 27% accuracy using a completely trivial linear model, that is by a single…
    comment by thomasahle · 2020-01-08 · in Training GPT-2 to Play Chess
  4. …similar, learning a chess representation, and move predictor with a simple linear fastText model: https://github.com/thomasahle/fastchess It turns out that you can get surprisingly good accuracy (27.5%) at predicting moves from the chess…
  5. There is an simple AI version with facebook fastText: https://github.com/thomasahle/fastchess