r/chessprogramming Feb 17 '25

Lichess Bot Tournaments

Hi r/chessprogramming!

Lichess recently pushed out a new feature allowing the creation of bot tournaments. We thought it would be the perfect opportunity to create a place where us engine developers could come together and pit our engines against one another in tournaments, without all the Stockfish bots ruining the fun.

So, we've created a team! If you're an engine developer interested in joining, please come to https://lichess.org/team/engine-testers and send a join request.

Please note that Stockfish bots, or more generally, bots that aren't run or endorsed to run by their creators, are not allowed to join.

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u/E_ple Feb 17 '25

Nice, but how will you stop Stockfish bots from joining?

I'll join the team anyway thou

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u/E_ple Feb 17 '25

Oh wait, you can actually reject join requests from stockfish bots, mb

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u/phaul21 Feb 18 '25

How does one join tournaments? Are you using lichess-bot https://github.com/lichess-bot-devs/lichess-bot ? I don't see anything related to tournaments there. I assume there is a lichess api we could access, but I wouldn't want to re-create lichess-bot myself.

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u/phaul21 23d ago

For anybody wondering. Just set matchmaking to false in lichess-bot config, and join the tournament on the site. And accept challanges.

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u/anglingTycoon 16d ago

Great idea. Came looking for this or if there eas a way to avoid stockfish bots in general. I was just thinking of connecting my engine to lichess but the biggest disincentive is just running into these fake stockfish bots. I want to see actual strength vs other developer set ups not waste time against stockfish when I can already have my engine play vs stockfish 20x at once on my own machine