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[[FILE:Ara chloroptera -Brookfield Zoo-8.jpg|border|right|thumb| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-and-green_macaw Ara chloropterus] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-and-green_macaw Red-and-green macaw] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookfield_Zoo Brookfield Zoo], [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ara_chloroptera_-Brookfield_Zoo-8.jpg Photo] by [https://www.flickr.com/photos/22321795@N04 Nimesh M], July 05, 2008, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''CrazyAra''',(ClassicAra, MultiAra)<br/>an a family of [[UCI]] compatible [[Chess#Variants|chess variant]] [[:Category:Open Source|open source]] engine engines licensed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL v3.0]].
CrazyAra started as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_term#Synonyms semester] project by [[Johannes Czech]], [[Moritz Willig]] and [[Alena Beyer]] for the course ''Deep Learning: Methods and Architectures'' at the [[Darmstadt University of Technology|TU Darmstadt]] in summer 2018, headed by [[Kristian Kersting]] and [[Johannes Fürnkranz]].
The project was inspired by the [[Deep Learning|deep learning]] and [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search|MCTS]] techniques described in [[DeepMind|DeepMind's]] [[AlphaZero]] papers
=ClassicAra=
'''ClassicAra''' is a version of CrazyAra to play classical chess as well as [[Chess960]]. ClassicAra had its tournament debut as [[TCEC Season 21]] in Spring 2021, not yet improved by [[Reinforcement Learning|reinforcement learning]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=77020&start=58 Re: ClassicAra Chess Engine..World Record Download!!] by [[Johannes Czech]], [[CCC]], May 20, 2021</ref>.
=MultiAra=
'''MultiAra''', released in August 2021, is a version of the Ara project which supports all [[Chess#Variants|chess variants]] available on [[Lichess]] <ref>[https://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=78027 CrazyAra, ClassicAra, MultiAra 0.9.5 release] by [[Johannes Czech]], August 26, 2021</ref>.
=See also=
* [[Johannes Czech]], [[Patrick Korus]], [[Kristian Kersting]] ('''2021'''). ''[https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICAPS/article/view/15952 Improving AlphaZero Using Monte-Carlo Graph Search]''. [https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICAPS/issue/view/380 Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling], Vol. 31, [https://www.ml.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/papers/czech2021icaps_mcgs.pdf pdf]
* [[Maximilian Langer]] ('''2021'''). ''Evaluation of Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Xiangqi''. B.Sc. thesis, [[Darmstadt University of Technology|TU Darmstadt]], [https://ml-research.github.io/papers/langer2021xiangqi.pdf pdf] » [[Chinese Chess|Xiangqi]]
* [[Maximilian Alexander Gehrke]] ('''2021'''). ''Assessing Popular Chess Variants Using Deep Reinforcement Learning''. Master thesis, [[Darmstadt University of Technology|TU Darmstadt]], [https://ml-research.github.io/papers/gehrke2021assessing.pdf pdf]
=Forum Posts=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=77020 ClassicAra Chess Engine..World Record Download!!] by supersharp77, [[CCC]], April 06, 2021
: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=77020&start=58 Re: ClassicAra Chess Engine..World Record Download!!] by [[Johannes Czech]], [[CCC]], May 20, 2021
: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=77020&start=70 Re: ClassicAra Chess Engine..World Record Download!!] by [[Johannes Czech]], [[CCC]], May 25, 2021 <ref>[https://tcec-chess.com/#div=l4&game=127&season=21 Drofa 3.0.0 vs ClassicAra 0.9.2.post1 - TCEC Season 21 - League 4]</ref>
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=77670 Has CrazyAra really improved because of MTGS ?] by George Pichard, [[CCC]], July 08, 2021
* [https://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=78027 CrazyAra, ClassicAra, MultiAra 0.9.5 release] by [[Johannes Czech]], August 26, 2021
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara_(bird) Ara (bird) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara Ara from Wikipedia]
* [[:Category:Weather Report|Weather Report]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdland_(song) Birdland], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Special_(TV_series) The Midnight Special], April 1977, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: lineup: [[:Category:Joe Zawinul|Joe Zawinul]], [[:Category:Wayne Shorter|Wayne Shorter]], [[:Category:Jaco Pastorius|Jaco Pastorius]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Acu%C3%B1a Alex Acuña], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manolo_Badrena Manolo Badrena]
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=References=
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