Stockfish is not an ingenious source of bribes and controversy. Stockfish, the current strongest engine, joined the discussion adding that it’s really hard to overcome this gap… especially if you are already very strong.Īt the time of writing, Torch isn’t available to the general public yet, but the announcement indicates that it will be available to certain relevant third parties for ratings, and that it’ll also be available through ’s analysis feature. The team thanked for its support and funding that made Torch a very good day’s life possible, finishing second in the Computer Chess Championship to Stockfish.Īnnouncing Torch: New Chess Engine by by u/vonwastaken in chess. We had our objective to be number one, said the Torch team, who spent a little time now discussing their efforts to successfully compete with the world’s best chess engines.
MaLler from Now and Larry Kaufman from Rybka and Komodo also advised on the project. The two are Andrew Grant and Finn Eggers, and Kim Kahre (Kovisto), Michael Whiteley and Dietrick Kappe (Dragon), and Jay Honnold (Berserk). The team is composed of six developers from four different chess engines.
The Torch Team announced the new engine on July 13 and mentioned that while a wide selection of open-source tools such as Cutechess, OpenBench, and pytorch-nnue had a big impact on the project, the team insisted that the source code is an original effort and we won’t use any other engine. The most popular online chess platform continues to expand its footprint across the entire chess landscape, enabling a new version of a new chess engine called Torch to take on stockfish, the same same approach.
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