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Hi,

I will like to see if is possible to get updated stockfish, the last version of the chess engine is stockfish-12.

This is a very important step in the improvement of the chess programs this time it comes with a novelty, a new enhancement in artificial intelligence!!.

September 2, 2020: Stockfish 12 released.

Thank you very much.

How would that work? I see 5 different versions on the Download page of the site. Do you want just the x64 version (slow but steady)? Even Debian Sid (Experimental) only has version 11.1-1.

Jerry3904 wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 3:49 pm How would that work? I see 5 different versions on the Download page of the site. Do you want just the x64 version (slow but steady)? Even Debian Sid (Experimental) only has version 11.1-1.

Hopefully, I would be able to build 32-bit and 64-bit deb packages from source for our repo using the debian folder for 11 as a template. Sometimes that works, but sometimes I have to wait for the experts in Debian to do it so I can copy them.

K

I don't know about Debian but it is already updated in Arch, i was runnig it when in Endeavouros ...

This is the web site:

https://stockfishchess.org/

I get a build error when it can't find nn-82215d0fd0df.nnue in the source--apparently it tries to download it during the build, and Debian won't allow that in pbuilder. I think I can just add it to the source and call it a ds1 version or something. nnue files are used by neural networking, so I wonder if the Arch version includes it--the docs seem to show it gets compiled into the binary if present.

Thanks Stevo !


Your efforts are appreciated by me.

Stockfish is probably the most powerful chess engine, and this new one incorporates AI like AlphaGo and Leela Chess Zero.

The addition of the neural net evaluation has added about 100 points to the rating, already >3500.

Not much chance for a human, and when MX can unleash 10 CPU cores onto Stockfish, it will be awesome.

Stevo, the only thing I can assure you is that in stockfih-12 everything is included, in my words = you just have to update it for Debian, in Arch it is already working.

keos wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:40 pm Stevo, the only thing I can assure you is that in stockfih-12 everything is included, in my words = you just have to update it for Debian, in Arch it is already working.

Building this new release from source involves a lot more behind the curtain than "you just have to update it for Debian".

That's right, correct, there are things involved in the purely computerized matter that I do not master, I just tried to say it "in my own words".
Perhaps the best thing I can tell you is that in version 12 the NNUE is included, that's all I can tell you.