Where to play with Lc0

To set up Leela Chess Zero, follow the following steps:

1. Setup a chess GUI

Leela Chess Zero, like most other chess programs, implements UCI protocol and requires a chess GUI. Popular GUIs are:

This section contains instructions to add Lc0 in various chess GUIs.

Since 2018, people inside and outside of LCZero team produced hundreds of thousand of neural networks.

What defines a network

To have a trained network, you need to think about three aspects:

For most of the use cases, default configuration of Lc0 is good for use. If you have NVidia RTX GPU, you may want to change the default network to one of the larger ones.

If you are having issues with Lc0, here are some common problems and their solutions.