The name is an homage to VICE which I used as a base for this project. Development is inspired by Ethereal and Stockfish.
Weiss appears in the CCRL, CEGT, and FastGM rating lists, and can be seen competing in TCEC.
Weiss is part of the OpenBench testing framework. You can help us out by letting your idle CPUs run test games!
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The size of the hash table in MB.
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The number of threads to use for searching.
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Path to syzygy tablebase files.
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Output the N best lines when searching. Leave at 1 for best performance.
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An option handled by your GUI. If true, Weiss will play Chess960.
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Allow Weiss to query and play moves suggested by noobpwnftw's online opening database.
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Limit the use of NoobBook to the first x moves of the game. Only relevant with NoobBook set to true.
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Allow Weiss to query online 7 piece Syzygy tablebases hosted by lichess.