Sources for chess based master thesis

Hi guys,

Excuse me if it's wrong section.

I'm at my final year at Computer Science master studies.

I've chosen master thesis named: "Research on data prediction methods based on chess engines". The title doesn't have to be exactly like that. However I would like to ask you for data sources related to the informatical/mathematical background of how stockfish/alpha zero and other chess engines are processing the data.

All other ideas about what could I include in the thesis would be also greatly appreciated.

Book Game Changer by Matthew Sadler and Natasha Reagen

You couldn't find a more boring topic for that thesis.

@pointlesswindows
My thesis topic isn't yet settled that's why I'm opened to all ideas and things to write the thesis about.
However based on the way you wrote your message it doesn't seems like you want to help at all.

I don't feel like helping you much either. You say you're researching a master's thesis and yet you're coming on some online forum to ask for help? Do the research yourself, Grad Guy.

It is hard to tell what your thesis is going to be about from your description. Sounds like you don't have that nailed down.
Are you thinking of "prediction" along the lines of what the team that developed maia did?
See:
Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System
Reid McIlroy-Young, Siddhartha Sen, Jon Kleinberg, Ashton Anderson
arxiv.org/abs/2006.01855

#1

"...data sources related to the informatical/mathematical background of how stockfish/alpha zero and other chess engines are processing the data."

If you want to know how these engines work, then you must read the source code. Of course, you cannot for alphazero, because it was never published. You can read the papers on alphazero. Probably the best substitute code read would be Lc0; though that program no longer works in the way alphazero was programmed.

Current source code for stockfish and lc0 are on github.

The problem you will find with reading technical papers and webpages on these engines is that those will be out-of-date with how the programs currently work.

@Seken said in #4:

> However based on the way you wrote your message it doesn't seems like you want to help at all.

Maybe I should write the thesis for you?

@Seken
I don't know exactly what you want but I have seen some sources related to what I can understand from your point.
chess24.com/en/read/news/how-do-chess-engines-think
towardsdatascience.com/dissecting-stockfish-part-1-in-depth-look-at-a-chess-engine-7fddd1d83579
wegochess.com/how-do-chess-engines-evaluate-positions/
medium.com/@SereneBiologist/the-anatomy-of-a-chess-ai-2087d0d565
chrisbutner.github.io/ChessCoach/high-level-explanation.html
Maybe these can help you.