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Setting up Fairy Stockfish on lichess

Fabian Fichter edited this page Mar 12, 2021 · 12 revisions

To set up a lichess bot with Fairy-Stockfish, it is recommended to use the lichess bot client https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot. Follow the instructions in its readme to set up your bot account and your bot client.

Configuration

Variants

Fairy-Stockfish supports all lichess variants, so make sure to enable/uncommend all variants in the config.yml.

NNUE

If you want to use NNUE networks to improve the strength of your Fairy-Stockfish bot, make sure to define the EvalFile option in the uci_options section according to https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki/Settings#evalfile.