Betafish - An amalgamation of AlphaZero and Stockfish.
Play it here.
Read more about it on my blog.
Introduction
Betafish is a chess engine and AI move finder written in Javascript, based on the Negamax algorithm. It beats Stockfish Level 6 on Lichess, and I estimate its around 1800-2000 Elo, depending on the thinking time afforded.
- Chess Engines: A Zero to One - The article that jumpstarted my journey into chess programming.
- WukongJS - A JS chess engine, written by Maksim Korzh, who was patient enough to answer my questions, give me pointers and point me in the right direction in this journey.
- Bluefever Software's YouTube series - A 63-part series on chess programming, which was an absolute gold mine and served as inspiration for the bulk of the chess engine.
- Chess Programming Wiki - A great resource for chess programming.
- CM Chessboard - The library I used for the GUI.
