M1 Apple Silicon for Chess?

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Re: M1 Apple Silicon for Chess?

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AlexChess wrote: Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:54 pm Hi acepoint,

Some other open source strong chess engines to compile for Silicon M1:

Toga III 0.3: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50193195
Night Nurse: https://www.patreon.com/posts/night-nurse-0-4b-46830152
Dark Horse: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dark-horse-0-3-47913036
Fire 8.1: https://chesslogik.wixsite.com/fire/download

I'll try to compile them, too :)

Regards, AlexChess
I will give a try for these as well for 64bit arm linux. Sorry no Mac yet
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Re: M1 Apple Silicon for Chess?

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Thank you Josh! :)
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Re: M1 Apple Silicon for Chess?

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I've been following the Cerebellum library a while now, even wrote some python code to work on creating training data to try feeding and making my own neural net with it.

Interesting project.
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jshriver wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:17 pm I've been following the Cerebellum library a while now, even wrote some python code to work on creating training data to try feeding and making my own neural net with it.

Interesting project.
Yes, on my engine tournaments I'm using it as common polyglot opening library for all engines without their own opening library supporting this protocol. For the others not supporting .bin (only on Arena Windows) I instead use the very old but reliable HS-Book.abk by Harry Schnapp
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Re: M1 Apple Silicon for Chess?

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jshriver wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 6:56 pm
AlexChess wrote: Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:54 pm Hi acepoint,

Some other open source strong chess engines to compile for Silicon M1:

Toga III 0.3: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50193195
Night Nurse: https://www.patreon.com/posts/night-nurse-0-4b-46830152
Dark Horse: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dark-horse-0-3-47913036
Fire 8.1: https://chesslogik.wixsite.com/fire/download

I'll try to compile them, too :)

Regards, AlexChess
I will give a try for these as well for 64bit arm linux. Sorry no Mac yet
Only Fire is source code (I already thought so when reading the links), the others are a binary and known nets. For Fire and Brainfish I have to adjust the makefile, this will last a day or two due to lack of time.

Ciao

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Re: M1 Apple Silicon for Chess?

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MikeB vs Aliens :)

All top engines not availables on Silicon M1 and Linux ARM64 + latest Cfish

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Blitz 3 minutes + 3 seconds 6-MAN Tablebases + Cerebellum & HS 20 moves book openings - Windows 10 ARM64 CPUs
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Re: M1 Apple Silicon for Chess?

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acepoint_de wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 11:49 pm
jshriver wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 6:56 pm
AlexChess wrote: Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:54 pm Hi acepoint,

Some other open source strong chess engines to compile for Silicon M1:

Toga III 0.3: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50193195
Night Nurse: https://www.patreon.com/posts/night-nurse-0-4b-46830152
Dark Horse: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dark-horse-0-3-47913036
Fire 8.1: https://chesslogik.wixsite.com/fire/download

I'll try to compile them, too :)

Regards, AlexChess
I will give a try for these as well for 64bit arm linux. Sorry no Mac yet
Only Fire is source code (I already thought so when reading the links), the others are a binary and known nets. For Fire and Brainfish I have to adjust the makefile, this will last a day or two due to lack of time.

Ciao

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OK, thank you!
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Re: M1 Apple Silicon for Chess?

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Another strong open source challenger (and challenge to compile for Silicon M1) for Acepoint
LCfish NNUE
https://github.com/borg323/lc0/releases/tag/lcfish
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Re: M1 Apple Silicon for Chess?

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Sorry, it seems that LcFish is only an April 1 joke.
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Re: M1 Apple Silicon for Chess?

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https://acepoint.de/tools-for-pgn-files/

pgn-extract and scoutfish for extracting information out of or manipulating very large pgn files.

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