Name the best chess engine

@Twenty-FirstCentury
in case you haven't already, take a look at tcec.chessdom.com/
and there the recent articles, e.g. about TCEC 15 or its superfinal between stockfish and leela.

Leela and stockfish are comparably strong with leela very recently performing ever so slightly better than stockfish.
At least it is widely agreed to play more positional, more "human", than stockfish.

In case your pc has a strong gpu, e.g. 1070 ti, 1080, similar, or better, and you are willing to spend some time to set it up, leela might be your best bet. In case you don't have a good gpu you can experiment with the most recent komodo or houdini versions (you need to buy them), but they are really not better than stockfish, just different. So in that case your best bet probably is to go with the latest stockfish version and decent cpu.

If you just want an engine that is similarly strong as stockfish but comes up with some different moves you can take a look at the asmfish project.

@Bill_Likes_Chess TPU is a tensor processor, it is good for neural networks

So Stockfish is the best!

Thank you @s1mpl3x

@Quantum you are also correct:)

alphazero is better than stockfish but not released to the public. Therefore it is not an official chess engine so stockfish is better. Its like some guy randomly beating magnus but it is not an official game

yeah

Not to be pedantic, but AlphaZero is likely the best engine in the world (given the best hardware). It's simply not available to the general public. The argument that Stockfish is better because AlphaZero isn't publically available is like saying that my new fancy Intel machine is the fastest computer in the world because supercomputers aren't available at Best Buy. I understand that the original poster was asking about engines that are available for his bot - but the discussion seemed extend beyond that context. That said, I appreciate the input by those questioning the god-status of AlphaZero.

@s1mpl3x Thanks for the link. Very interesting! Are you aware of anyone using multi-GPU systems typically used for graphics rendering or cryptocurrency mining to run Leela or similar AI software for chess?

@sfumatosauce You dont need multi-GPU if you have PNY Tesla V100 Graphics Booster