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chess-engine/python
KeshavAnandCode 9e2fe0cae6 feat: add project structure and basic NNUE model
- Create python directory with data/, model/ subdirectories
- Implement LinearEval(61072->1) model
- Add config, constants, feature_extractor
- Add tests with 4 passing test cases
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Chess NNUE Distillation

Train a single linear layer on Stockfish's NNUE features.

Quick Start

cd python
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121
pip install numpy python-chess tqdm matplotlib h5py joblib pytest
python train_full.py

Architecture

  • Input: 61,072 features (352 HalfKAv2_hm + 60,720 FullThreats)
  • Output: 1 scalar (centipawns)
  • Optimizer: Adam (lr=1e-3, wd=1e-4)