Crazyhouse-AI: CrazyAra

Dear lichess.org community,

my team and I created an AI called CrazyAra for the chess variant Crazyhouse as our semester university project.
The neural network is mainly based on the techniques described in Alpha-Go/Alpha-Zero paper, with the main exception that it was only trained supervised on a single GPU by now.
CrazyAra learned the game of Crazyhouse, by processing all games you've played from January 2016 to June 2018 (database.lichess.org/).
We've selected all games including Bullet-Games with a minimum elo >= 2000 for both players, resulting in 56,9537 training games total.
A paper about the implementation details will be made available soon.

You can challenge the bot in blitz-time control format in the Crazyhouse variant.
@CrazyAra

The bot will be online from September 7, 20:00 hrs to September 9, 11:30 hrs (Central European Time) for now.

We're excited to see how CrazyAra will perform against it's supervisors.

Greetings and good luck in your games,

Your CrazyAra-Team

Wow! I still haven't figured out a way to make a learning bot -- it puzzles me. Great job! Good luck!

Congratulations - I've been working on this for a while too but never got the material to run it.

ftlearning.wordpress.com/2018/08/13/64-a-crazyhouse-learning-project/

Hmm, it's not accepting challenges.

Declined 5+8, accepted 5+0.
It'd be nice if other time control than blitz can be played as well.

CrazyAra is back online. Sorry for anyone who tried to play CrazyAra in the past 3 hours. The uptime will be delayed to
September 9, 14:30 hrs.
I could also enable rapid games if people are interested. Here's are strawpolll about it:
www.strawpoll.me/16418695
However I would need to add a configuration for longer and shorter time controls. In some of the games the time management might be bad first.

-> Update: The rapid game time format is also enabled now.

@BOT KYsokochAge17: Nice blog post! If my two fellow students agree to open-source our current project it, we could collaborate.

@IQ_QI Thanks! I'm very willing to discuss and talk about my experiences and failures :) hope to help out

Hello everyone,
we thank all participants who played lichess.org/@/CrazyAra/all.
They have been some interesting matches, including matches with top level players!
We're quite content with the first results of CrazyAra, but still think there's plenty room of improvement.
Due to the high demand, we'll open-source our project and continue working on it.
github.com/queensgambit/crazyara
We also plan to write a blog-post about CrazyAra Version 0.1.
For now you can take a look at our today's presentation slides:
docs.google.com/presentation/d/1m-Pf9qiNGnbj6AWb0w-sz1WrkjPxyv6ILjC-L3xfZUI/edit#slide=id.g3d50b6f234_0_69

Cheers,
Your CrazyAra-Team