I happened to come across a ranking list that I had never seen before, which is called ICCRL (https://www.iccrl.org/rankings). And on the rank, I noticed an engine called Gillespie is #2, stronger than Torch and is only 1 elo behind Stockfish 17.1. Checking its official website([link no longer active]), The author [name removed] wrote Gillespie employs a Mixture of Experts (MoE) NNUE architecture with five specialized neural networks, each trained on billions of positions from specific game phases,(seems like Cerberus on SPCC)which interests me a lot. Can anyone get this chess engine from the author and send it to me please?
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The Real #2 Chess Engine
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Re: The Real #2 Chess Engine
I imagine the list is fake, because I have not provided Torch to any such list.Mark Tang wrote: ↑Wed Feb 18, 2026 3:27 am I happened to come across a ranking list that I had never seen before, which is called ICCRL (https://www.iccrl.org/rankings). And on the rank, I noticed an engine called Gillespie is #2, stronger than Torch and is only 1 elo behind Stockfish 17.1. Checking its official website([link no longer active]), The author [name removes] wrote Gillespie employs a Mixture of Experts (MoE) NNUE architecture with five specialized neural networks, each trained on billions of positions from specific game phases,(seems like Cerberus on SPCC)which interests me a lot. Can anyone get this chess engine from the author and send it to me please?
So it probably only exists to promote "Gillespie". Which itself sounds like its not an actual original work, just running 5 engines at once, and at that point you're basically just running Stockfish with extra steps.
A shame though, the site has a nice layout to it.