Top Chess Engine Championship

Post by kthejoker2 » Sat, Feb 05, 2022, 12:12 AM UTC

retzkek wrote: post #34

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #26

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Are there niche versions of this? There's like communities that try to write code that can run on old hardware and in certain space requirements, etc. From a coding perspective - I think it could get really interesting to see people try to make super small engines. I've seen a couple and am blown away that a pretty small program w/o an ML model can destroy me in Chess. It'd be cool to see how good super simple progra…

I'd also like to see something of a chess Turing test, and while very hard to quantify a competition for the most human-like low- or mid-level chess engine. On Chess.com there's a plethora of bots of different ratings, but outside a few gimmicks (e.g. "Nelson" always gets his queen out early) they're all the same, only differing in how frequently they blunder in-between perfect moves.

Post by YeGoblynQueenne » Mon, Feb 07, 2022, 12:06 AM UTC

CydeWeys wrote: post #42

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #39

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DeepMind has limited resources? I'll remember that and smile next time I'm running my experiments on the same machine as another two PhD students.

The limited resources I'm referring to is people. It's a relatively small organization, and focusing people on Chess comes at an opportunity cost of not focusing on something else. Just because your situation is even more limited doesn't mean that they don't also have limitations. That's just gatekeeping.