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Chess-System-Tal-NNUE-2

Chess-System-Tal-NNUE-2 is a UCI chess engine written in C++ by Chris Whittington and Ed Schröder.

Features

UCI-compatible chess engine
Specifically designed to play in style of the legendary Tal
Public executable, private source code
Elo 2914 Blitz rating on Nightmare.nl server
June Blitz 2023 authors tourney, 1st=
Previous Blitz tourney 2nd=
Previous Blitz tourney outright 1st
Top five ranking (probably) among currently publicly available chess engines

Requirements

AVX2 (at least) compatible PC
if your PC is AVX512 compatible, use the avx512 executable
if your PC is AVX2 compatible, use the avx2 executable
User Interface (UI) software such as CuteChess, Banksia, or Arena
NB Arena has a bug which causes it to misidentify our engine. You need to tell Arena UI that CSTal is a UCI engine.
There are two version of CSTal (check the executable naming)
one is optimised for Elo (strength)
the other for Tal-like play (EAS) - see Stephan Pohl website for fuller details
we made an EAS ranking chart for available engines in our strength pool using the Pohl EAS tool
you can find the sacrifice game PGNs in the release folder

Binaries >> https://github.com/ChrisWhittington/Che ... 00-v21.zip
Source >> https://github.com/ChrisWhittington/Che ... -e1162.zip
Source >> https://github.com/ChrisWhittington/Che ... 162.tar.gz