The name is an homage to VICE which I used as a base for this project.
Weiss appears in most rating lists, and can be seen competing at TCEC and Chess.com.
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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. Uses Pyrrhic library.
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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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Sets the query mode to use (see dbcn docs):
- best - chooses randomly from the moves with scores close to the best. Stops if all moves' scores are below a threshold.
- all - chooses the move with the highest score (first in the returned list). Only stops if there are no moves with scores.
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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.