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Grandmaster-level chess without search

Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search. Contribute to google-deepmind/searchless_chess development by creating an account on GitHub.

We annotate each board in the dataset with action-values provided by the powerful Stockfish 16 engine, leading to roughly 15 billion data points. Our largest model reaches a Lichess blitz Elo of 2895 against humans, and successfully solves a series of challenging chess puzzles, without any domain-specific tweaks or explicit search algorithms. To investigate the model's behavior (e.g., to compute the win percentage for all legal moves), start a notebook server and then open src/searchless_chess.ipynb in your browser:

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