I Ran a Chess Programming Tournament, Here's How it Went!
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День томуLet's have a look at the creative code behind some of the bots, watch their games, and find out who will ultimately emerge victorious.
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The code for all the entries, as well PGN files for all the games played in the tournament can be found over here:
github.com/SebLague/Tiny-Ches...
Play against a selection of the bots from beginner to grandmaster level. How many can you defeat?
sebastian.itch.io/tiny-chess-...
Take a look at some videos that competitors made about their entries:
GameTechExplained (rank 78): • Can THIS win Sebastian...
MilkMindV1 (rank 108): • Making an Amazing Ches...
Music credits
Bad Apple Remix: • Bad Apple!! 8bit remix...
github.com/SebLague/Misc-Proj...
TCEC 4K Info:
If you're interesting in taking part in the 4K tournament I mentioned, I recommend joining the TCEC discord linked on chessdom.org/ and enquiring about it there.
You can also read more about the event here: wiki.chessdom.org/TCEC_4k_Rules
Chapters
0:00:00 Challenge Overview
0:01:09 Some Exploits and Disqualifications
0:02:58 Beginning the Tournament
0:03:58 [Bot] Turochamp (Faithful)
0:06:28 [Bot] WhateverBot
0:08:18 [Game] Turochamp (Faithful) vs WhateverBot
0:09:35 [Game] Pawntress vs WhateverBot
0:10:30 [Bot] applemethod-orz
0:11:42 [Bot] Igris
0:13:19 [Game] applemethod-orz vs Igris
0:14:32 Token Plot
0:15:06 [Bot] BadAppleBot
0:17:30 [Bot] 200 Tokens Monstrosity
0:20:18 [Bot] Baby Squid
0:21:38 [Game] 200 Tokens Monstrosity vs Baby Squid
0:23:19 Tiebreak System
0:23:39 [Bot] TinyHugeBot
0:25:45 [Game] TinyHugeBot vs 200 Tokens Monstrosity
0:26:26 [Bot] Electric Shockwave Gambit
0:28:11 [Bot] SimpleMCTS
0:30:23 [Game] SimpleMCTS vs Electric Shockwave Gambit
0:31:30 [Game] Phoenix Chess vs SimpleMCTS
0:32:28 [Bot] ILVM
0:33:45 [Bot] Les Moutons
0:34:40 [Game] Les Moutons vs ILVM
0:35:51 [Bot] NNBot
0:38:09 [Bot] Game Tech Explained
0:38:41 [Game] NNBot vs Game Tech Explained
0:39:27 [Bot] King Gambot IV
0:41:21 [Game] King Gambot IV vs ILVM
0:41:51 [Game] King Gambot IV vs NNBot
0:42:22 Swiss Results
0:43:32 [Knockout Game] Board 1, Round of 64
0:44:27 [Knockout Game] Board 2, Round of 64
0:46:02 [Knockout Game] Board 9, Round of 64
0:47:43 [Knockout Game] Board 3, Round of 32
0:48:30 [Knockout Game] Board 4, Round of 32
0:49:31 Piece Square Table Compression
0:50:48 Round of 16 Results
0:51:14 [Bot] Tyrant’s V9
0:51:55 [Knockout Game] Board 2, Quarterfinals
0:54:40 [Knockout Game] Board 1, Semifinals
0:56:43 [Knockout Game] Board 2, Semifinals
0:58:56 [Bot] Finalist A
1:06:00 [Final Round] Game 1
1:08:56 [Bot] Finalist B
1:14:05 [Final Round] Game 2
1:15:57 Final Results and Closing Ceremony
1:16:52 [Game] Tournament Winner vs Coding Adventure Bot
@SebastianLague 4 місяці тому
Hey everyone, I’m excited to finally share the results from the chess coding challenge. Thank you so much to everyone who took part, and sorry about the long wait! Spoilers ahead... There's now a rating list available for all the bots in the tournament, which you can find over here: github.com/SebLague/Tiny-Chess-Bot-Challenge-Results/blob/main/RatingsList.txt I've also made a little game where you can play against a selection of these tiny bots from ~200 ELO all the way up to grandmaster level: sebastian.itch.io/tiny-chess-bots
@SaharshDev 4 місяці тому
FINALLY!
@thecalculatedcreativecoder1428 4 місяці тому
Don't be sorry. Thank you for this challenge. It really helped me improve as a programmer. I look forward to any future challenges you have!!!
@realmarsastro 4 місяці тому
Love you, man. Take the time you need, I'd rather have 1 quality video from you per year than 30 rushed videos
@thatprogramer 4 місяці тому
You are a inspiration!
@rowburt 4 місяці тому
thank you for hosting this competition, it was a lot of fun!
@Visiorex 4 місяці тому
My Average Joe bot placed in the middle. I have never been so proud of my assessment of something in my entire life. Average Joe was average! 🎉
@SebastianLague 4 місяці тому
Haha nice!
@opticalreticle 4 місяці тому
Who's Joe?
@jrmunro111 4 місяці тому
@@opticalreticlejoe mama
@cyberneticsquid 4 місяці тому
Perfectly average 😎
@mcbot6291 4 місяці тому
That's the median...
@Lishtenbird 4 місяці тому
Bad Apple was definitely not on the list of things I expected to see in a chess coding challenge.
@Citrus_-ff7qf 4 місяці тому
As soon as i heard the name i jumped up and said no freaking way!
@catgirlQueer 4 місяці тому
it should have been, whenever there's any coding challenge you should expect bad apple
@Loev06 4 місяці тому
Haha thanks! I'm the author and when I started with this challenge I was also definitely not expecting to be coding a Bad Apple chess bot :)
@zombie_pigdragon 4 місяці тому
Touhou hijack (lol) once again
@SirusStarTV 4 місяці тому
15:06
@Bassalicious 4 місяці тому
King Gambot IV wins my "viewer's favourite" vote without a shadow of a doubt. What a mad lad.
@namAehT 4 місяці тому
I wonder if it did so well because most bots seem to be programmed to seek out checks at all costs, effectively using its king as bait to mop up "poorly" programmed opponents.
@Bassalicious 4 місяці тому
@@namAehT Not adhering to the behaviour that resulted in the training data and tuning yeah. When it didn't stun-lock opponents it still did pretty well too and kept the king kind of tight. It's just so bold and getting away with it, I love it
@WaluigiisthekingASmith 4 місяці тому
If the king does not lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow
@dzuchun 4 місяці тому
- my lord, we've lost our queen - WHO CARES? WHOHOOO!! 🎉🎉
@DingleFlop 4 місяці тому
The fact that this strategy worked at all is really awesome. All of these bots are trained to make strong decisions against strong bots, so the change in strategy to have a suicidal king seems to have thrown them off their game a bit, hahaha!
@voidvenom7452 4 місяці тому
The hexadecimal above Boychesser at 1:16:50 decodes to "you like chessing boys don't you".
@zarpela 4 місяці тому
LMAAOOOOO
@miguelguthridge 4 місяці тому
Beautiful
@wolfyrine 4 місяці тому
You silly boy chesser.
@_fudgepop01 4 місяці тому
Somehow I just KNEW such a reference would end up high on the list, but if you asked me where I thought it would end up, 1st would have been my 5th guess at LEAST ahahah~
@coolreader18 4 місяці тому
no way lmaoooo
@erwanfagnou9511 4 місяці тому
Hey, i'm ErwanF (200 tokens monstrosity :p), thanks a lot for this tournament!!! That was huge, really.
@kevinv19900 4 місяці тому
Well done Erwan :) you did well
@user-dh8oi2mk4f 4 місяці тому
Congrats! Your engine was really good for 200 tokens
@DEMEMZEA 4 місяці тому
Huge unlike your bot lmao ( this is not supposed to be offensive, sorry if it did )
@GMDeatHSoul 4 місяці тому
@@DEMEMZEA :D
@Li0nhunter 4 місяці тому
It’s kind of scary how good your bot was within the confines of your extra challenge. Kinda makes me wonder how much better a bot that used your level of optimization would do if it used the full 1024 limit.
@popax6658 4 місяці тому
As one of the two devs of TinyHugeBot: this tournament was a lot of fun, even if we might not have approached it in the intended way ;) We actually expected to get disqualified or completely crushed by bots made by people who actually know what they are doing, so it's great to hear we got 13th place! Huge thanks again to Sebastian for hosting the tournament, and to everyone who submitted a bot (it's a lot more work than it appears to be from the outside!)
@RichConnerGMN 4 місяці тому
hi
@AuroraAquir 4 місяці тому
Seeing a familiar name was amazing and of course you two end up doing it by creating some c# black magic! Absolutely incredible
@RoyRope 4 місяці тому
Nice way of thinking out of the box.
@oliviapg 4 місяці тому
It was a lot of fun following your progress!
@GammaRadiation 4 місяці тому
congrats popax
@boatbomber 4 місяці тому
I made a PacifistBot that never attacks unless it's the only valid move- surprisingly, it loses
@Rotem_S 4 місяці тому
Still wins against bad apple though!
@aceman0000099 4 місяці тому
Moral victory though.
@cyberneticsquid 4 місяці тому
@@Rotem_SActually would it win against Bad Apple? The Bad Apple bot is still one that makes valid chess moves, and isn't programmed to avoid captures. It might end up in a situation where the first valid move is actually beneficial.
@EriksV99 4 місяці тому
@@cyberneticsquid But Bad Apple bot doesn't make valid chess moves, it just timeouts at their move. The games it managed to win was against bots that managed to lose before Bad Apple bots first move (when it was black and their opponent either timeouted or made illegal move as their first move).
@davutsauze8319 4 місяці тому
It's because nice guys finish last :( If there was even just a single sensible chess bot girl who would accept such as nice gentleman for who he really is your bot would've outcompeted everyone
@WhiteThunder121 4 місяці тому
56:20: > Promote pawn to bishop for maximum disrespect > Do not elaborate > Win game
@bargledargle7941 3 місяці тому
That's hilarious
@trevorcarlson4348 2 місяці тому
if you promote to a queen, you'll lose it. The bot is disincentivized from losing points, so promoting to a bishop is the best move.
@shieldgenerator7 2 місяці тому
what a taunt
@LeeAnnC 23 дні тому
I love this
@sgtmajorkiwi 16 днів тому
boychesser being completely and utterly amazing once again
@vastabyss6496 4 місяці тому
I don't know if you're already aware of this, but this challenge has created a new community and connected people who otherwise wouldn't have had ever known each other. It's also encouraged more people (like myself) to try to learn more about game-playing AI and programming in general. I just want to thank you for this and the community you've created, it's been a pleasure participating in this challenge. Congrats to everyone who attempted building a Chess bot!
@SebastianLague 4 місяці тому
That’s wonderful to hear, thank you!
@Drakenfeld 4 місяці тому
@vastabyss6496 Do you use Unity C# and make games? or are you just wanting to learn to make games ? I'm in the sorta same boat, looking for people to work with and finish a project.
@vastabyss6496 4 місяці тому
@@Drakenfeld I'm not really the right person to ask since I don't really make games lol. I'm much more into the AI stuff than the actual game dev stuff (not to say that game development isn't fun, it's just not my main point of interest). PyGame can be nice though if you're working with deep learning and you don't care about game performance and you just want a decent testing ground for your models, since you can use Tensorflow and PyTorch. It all depends on your specific project needs.
@Drakenfeld 4 місяці тому
@@vastabyss6496 tbh i have never used python before or learnt how, only coding language i can use is C#, though i kinda do want to get into more AI related things to make games with. such as auto genarate storys, map npc ect
@AureliusAurelius 4 місяці тому
Where does this community hang out? Is there a subreddit or something?
@Loev06 4 місяці тому
Thanks for this challenge! I'm the author of BadAppleBot and LoevBot. It was really fun to come up with my own challenge to compress as much data as possible for the video, and I was stoked to see my serious bot perform so well in the competition! (30th place)
@SebastianLague 4 місяці тому
Great entries - thanks for taking part!
@youpvl 4 місяці тому
You mad man!!
@KellyWu04 4 місяці тому
You’ve sandwiched almost the entire competition!
@josiahjack455 4 місяці тому
Epic that both your bots did so well, in how they played and in what they accomplished.
@m_affiliates 4 місяці тому
i wonder if loevbot and badapplebot played against each other at any point
@rumengol529 4 місяці тому
The Electric shock gambit is my favorite, I love the idea of (virtually) tasing your opponent as a way to ensure victory
@matroqueta6825 3 місяці тому
same, I'm sad that the approach did not work as intendd but the intent made it win my heart
@castur_ 4 місяці тому
My bot, "The Copycat", got 581st, which is actually better than I had anticipated! It always tries to replicate the opponent's move as closely as possible (hence the name) so it was really quite easy to beat it once you knew that, but I suppose it could be a bit confusing for the other bots who didn't know its strategy. This was fun! Thanks for hosting ^^
@multiarray2320 4 місяці тому
very creative idea. i love it!
@aceman0000099 4 місяці тому
I was imagining a bot like that would be fun
@paulpruenster5884 4 місяці тому
Damn the garbage collector one (Electric shockwave gambit) blew my mind. Nicely done
@LagMasterSam 4 місяці тому
New flagging strategy just dropped.
@MaskedDeath_ 4 місяці тому
You can try the strategy in real life by just shocking your opponent with a taser during an OTB game. Might get you arrested though.
@HemanthKumar-mx1mw 4 місяці тому
@@LagMasterSam Holy hell
@muenstercheese 4 місяці тому
truly 5d chess
@tolbryntheix4135 4 місяці тому
@@MaskedDeath_ Just use the thermonuclear gambit then. No police or military left to arrest you afterwards. No you left to arrest afterwards either though I guess.
@JetzYT 4 місяці тому
Hi, I'm Nathan and made Onion (14th in Swiss). This was my first experience with computer chess and was a ton of fun. Shoutout to everyone from the discord for such a great community!
@SebastianLague 4 місяці тому
Great work, thanks for taking part!
@nick1752 4 місяці тому
Nice first experience, you are a genius.
@i_Soar 4 місяці тому
King Gambot IV reaching the knockout stage is honestly incredibly impressive
@mitigatedrisk4264 4 місяці тому
King Gambot IV is the winner in my heart. I love the whole "best version of a bad strategy" dynamic, and I would have loved to see more, but of course, that wasn't the point of this competition, and I'm even not sure how you could structure a competition to encourage that kind of thing.
@shieldgenerator7 2 місяці тому
it would be fun to play a tournament where the king has a shield that captures the piece that tries to capture it, thus making it so you have to checkmate twice. it would encourage more king gambot bots
@user-mt2jm7vy6i 4 місяці тому
Top 2 engines have some serious names involved. CJ is a stockfish contribrutor and has contributions to a lot of other engines (alexandria, stash, etc). MinusKelvin is a dev of FrozenNight. Basically pretty established engine devs who were in this area long before this challenge even existing :) No wonder they finished at top. Also to no surprise they use common "try and try again" approach based on statistics because this is how you develop modern chess engines and they have a lot of experience with it. Probably if you could get stockfish team / torch team into this it would produce even more epic things, I would guess that smth like 3000 CCRL is barely doable with this code size, but it will require gigantic amount of testing.
@Hack--rz1io 4 місяці тому
It was pretty fun recognizing some names in there I knew MinusKelvin from his work on Tetris bots and I didn't know until today they're also into chess !
@Julzaa 4 місяці тому
The 200 tokens monstrosity is indeed a monstrosity of token optimization, love to see it
@TheThirdPrice 4 місяці тому
Holy moly, using the disposal function to gain functionality is genius
@blockmath_2048 4 місяці тому
using the disposal function to *attempt to stall the opposing bot and make it lose on time* no less
@octoBadger 4 місяці тому
Yeah, that was choice lateral thinking - eat your enemy's CPU cycles... Love it!
@jasper7439 4 місяці тому
I kinda wish it worked lol
@ashutoshsamantaray6596 4 місяці тому
Definitely my favorite entry, felt like a convoluted anime protag's strategy, but in real life it failed :(
@stewartzayat7526 4 місяці тому
It's the equivalent of a player comstantly distracting their opponent during their turn so that they cannot focus. I love it!
@Tesl8n 4 місяці тому
Very impressive work making a compelling narrative out of this whole thing that really adhered to all the various things that viewers might have wanted - highlighting the creative & strange bots, showing the top results, creating fan favorites to root for, etc. I can't imagine how hard scripting this had to have been, but it turned out incredibly well, excellent work!
@SebastianLague 4 місяці тому
Thank you, it was a tough one for sure!
@pavelmatusu4457 4 місяці тому
16:12 For anyone who wonders what Bad Apple is. Bad Apple was originaly a soundtrack in a fourth game in the Touhou series (1998). In the year 2007 a singer named Nomico created a cover known today. The black and white video that usually comes with the song was animated by fans. The characters shown in the video are characters from Touhou series.
@Jeff-ct4wk 4 місяці тому
Just like a lot of the other competitors, I'm JeffLegendPower (drip leab 4th place) and this was my (and everyone who worked with me) first time messing with chess engines. I feel like I learned so much not just about chess engine coding, but about how we can approach unsolvable problems, how community can emerge from competition, and the importance in trusting the process (SSS enjoyers know what I mean). All in all, I think this was a great competition as I and many other participants learned a tremendous amount during it.
@user-dh8oi2mk4f 4 місяці тому
that could be inferred
@bilbop4962 Місяць тому
atad carried (this guy ran non-reg boundaries for sprt for some unknowable reason)
@asthmagod99 Місяць тому
boychesssr
@ComfyCherry 4 місяці тому
king gambot is basically constantly baiting out the other bots, pretty interesting how effective that was
@minuskelvin3619 4 місяці тому
That was fun, thanks for hosting the tournament! Now, I need to make sure ice4 is ready for the third TCEC 4k in a week...
@lavendeerpuyotet4813 4 місяці тому
Hey! It was cool to see you here! I will never forget the person who made cold clear.
@0-Kirby-0 4 місяці тому
I'd have loved to see Boychesser fight Stockfish. It'll obviously lose, but I'm curious just how close to industry standard "perfection" it can get, while being so much smaller.
@reconnecting5426 4 місяці тому
On the CCRL rating list, Stockfish is at more than 3500 and Boychesser at about 2750, so it would still hardly ever draw a game, maybe like 3 in a thousand. Still absolutely impressive, what they pulled off!
@Hjelp-xr5ov 4 місяці тому
Yes i would have loved to see the top bots fighting against stockfish of different strength, eg like in Tom7's chess video to see their strength
@orangepacker7479 4 місяці тому
@@reconnecting5426I was looking for it’s rating! Thanks Super GM level with all the limitations is crazy
@eb4841 4 місяці тому
@reconnecting5426 If it is the case, then Boychesser is close to GM level. So it would be more fun to see Magnus Carlsen play against it or any other GM actually.
@Frank_Lee_Terrible 4 місяці тому
@@reconnecting54262750?? Holy hell
@Redstonewilli 4 місяці тому
Seeing "Boychesser" crush your bot at the end of the video made my jaw drop. I expected these tiny bots to be a lot worse than that. Congrats to all participants!
@PatrickHoodDaniel 4 місяці тому
I am humbled by the skill submitted to this project. The worst of these attempts are miles ahead of what I would dream of creating.
@snowfloofcathug 4 місяці тому
On the other hand, plenty of people with bots in the top half have said the same thing! You’d do better than you think, if you just put your mind to it :)
@PatrickHoodDaniel 4 місяці тому
@@snowfloofcathug I guess I could, but I program every day! When you pass 54, the brain melts.
@SaharshDev 4 місяці тому
I'm the one who made Dream (42nd in Swiss) and I'm really proud of myself that it came that far! I expected way less because of the amount of competition. It was a great experience about Computer Chess and C# overall!
@wincentholm 4 місяці тому
Thanks for showing off ILVM, put a lot of effort into it 😀 Great challenge! ❤️
@popax6658 4 місяці тому
Huge props for actually going through the effort to make and submit ILVM, it's an amazing bot (and one of my favorite submissions, next to ESG)! We initially had a similar concept before THB, but decided against it since we didn't think that a reasonable VM implementation + search algorithm would fit into the token limit, so congrats on actually getting it to work!
@josiahjack455 4 місяці тому
This idea is on a whole nother level. Absolutely floored by what you accomplished and by how good it was. Amazing!
@strangejune 4 місяці тому
One of my first ideas for compressing beyond the token limit would be writing a VM. I love this entry, and good work actually doing it!
@ThatGuy_33 4 місяці тому
You should do a part two, where all of the disqualified bots play against each other. I’d be interested to see how much of an advantage they actually have versus the bots that didn’t break the rules.
@commentchannel5375 4 місяці тому
1:16:51 lmao just when I thought you weren't going to acknowledge it "you like chessing boys don't you"
@michael.chistyakov 4 місяці тому
Great job Sebastian! Think about creating "tank wars". The playing field is (for example) 32 by 32 cells. Each tank occupies one cell. In one cycle, the tank can either turn, move, rotate the turret, or fire. The tank cannot travel beyond the boundaries of the playing field. It is possible that the size of the playing field will be proportional to the number of participating tanks. It is possible that the damage caused by a shot depends on the distance of the shot. Programmatically, “tank” is a function that receives its own data about the tank (position, rotation etc.) and an array of data about enemy tanks and shoots. At the output, the function returns the game action of the tank (shoot, turn, etc.) Shoot is an independent thing on a game field, moving by 1 cell length in needed direction each game frame. The idea is to have very simple game rules and mechanics to look at complex and winning algorithms. Also, the “tank function” can be written in any modern language. And, of course, after the matches, you will be able to visualize it very beautifully. Please support with a like so that Sebastian notices. Thank you and greetings from Siberia!
@MayaPapaya497 4 місяці тому
Oh that would be so cool! I imagine there are a ton of emergent strategies that would arise from the basic rules. Andit would be a little bit more accessible to understand for the average viewer (me)
@BGOPC 4 місяці тому
Guys I just wanna thank Sebastian for all his hardworks He doesn't upload regularly but when he does it's banger It's fascinating to imagine how many long hours it took just for the games to be played He also checked each code Made it clear Read it Understand it And explain it to us Good work bud
@starvoid_official 4 місяці тому
I got 567 place! Yay. I'm happy, considering the fact that it was my first programming challenge. Good video and thanks for this opportunity!
@mads_in_zero 4 місяці тому
Just like you test any programming language by asking "can it print Hello World", and eventually building up to "can it run Doom", if something has an image display, it's inevitable that you'll evolve from using a standard test image to asking "but can it display Bad Apple?" - it's like the Hello World of image and video display! The Bad Apple Music Video is a fan MV for a fan cover of a vocal cover of a video game song from the Touhou Project series (phew!). Touhou has a very vibrant and extensive fan content culture, which both explains why the music video is so popular to remake, and why the original got produced in the first place. It also helps that the Bad Apple MV has aged beautifully, despite being from 2009. The shadow-art artstyle, seamless transitions between scenes (and strong character designs from the original game series) means it still looks gorgeous, even today.
@ryan-heath 4 місяці тому
The ranks reveal was exciting. I was getting even more excited when I had not seen my bot and the last 100 had yet to be revealed. The bot even ended in the top 50 😂 Never would have excepted that 😎 Before this challenge I didn’t know about the large world of chess programming. So many theories and approaches exist. The token limit was a smart move. Great to see how many inventive bits were created! Thanks Sebastian! The was a great learning journey for me personally.
@jaideepshekhar4621 4 місяці тому
What was your bot?
@ryan-heath 4 місяці тому
@@jaideepshekhar4621The one with a question mark 😅 Though it is not a question mark, it is a unicode character for Delta. For some reason it displayed a ?
@jasiek511 4 місяці тому
I’m so excited to see this video. Even though I don’t think my submission is included I feel like I was a part of the community during that challenge and I can’t wait to see the results and all the showcases. Don’t worry about the delay I’m sure the video is worth the wait!
@jasiek511 4 місяці тому
It actually made the cut! I’m the author of PeSTO compression, amazing challenge Seb 🎉
@jukmifggugghposer 4 місяці тому
Oh I'm only twenty minutes in but this is lovely. I love to see Bad Apple here. And the 200 Token Monstrosity is absolutely inspired - taking the log of available moves to detect checkmate is so very cool. This is great.
@Vexurayr 4 місяці тому
I wasn't confident enough to participate in this challenge, but watching what you do is truly inspiring, along with all the people we saw this video.
@mikejameson7678 4 місяці тому
Completely in the same boat. Congratulations to everyone who participated in this tourney; because I was unable to do so. And if you didn't - we, as a community, should create a challenge when the next generation of small bots are ready.
@amaureaLua 4 місяці тому
It would have been nice to see elo scores for these bots too! You could even calibrate it vs. Stockfish by using the "diluted stockfish" technique from suckerpinch's "Elo World" youtube video.
@strangejune 4 місяці тому
Check the community tab!
@FloydMaxwell 4 місяці тому
Surely this could be made into an entire computer chess programming course. Glorious.
@MattMajcan 4 місяці тому
King Gambot was absolutely incredible. It honestly makes me question conventional wisdom about chess to see that thing perform that well
@paris_mars 4 місяці тому
Man, I love this channel so much. I was rewatching some of your videos last night and they're all just really amazing, beautifully made, and inspiring.
@SebastianLague 4 місяці тому
Thank you! :)
@Vextrove 4 місяці тому
I love Sebastian Lague's videos. They're relaxing, educational, entertaining, interesting, enjoyable to watch
@vladyslavkryvoruchko 4 місяці тому
The best programming competition idea in the world! Would love to see more of those. Cheers!
@s0meb0dy78 4 місяці тому
I second this motion.
@PatrickHoodDaniel 4 місяці тому
Yes, I do like chessing boys! By the way, I also added similar hidden HEX strings to be decoded by my viewers and I planted them in the description; however, not a single person noticed, and the HEX spoke of a giveaway, so nobody got anything. I was pulling for you at the end!!
@Gosuminer 4 місяці тому
I am blown away by the amount of work compiling this video must have taken. Thank you very much and also huge thanks to the developers of the submissions. There is so much to learn from this.
@frankhaugen 4 місяці тому
I gave it a try, and have rarely felt so inadequate as a programmer before 😅
@vastabyss6496 4 місяці тому
The hype is real right now. I can't wait to see how things turned out!
@bfi01youtube11 4 місяці тому
This is a beautiful video of a fantastic event! I look forward to seeing what you do next!
@lofinightc0re36 4 місяці тому
Love to see my bot Igris so high up on the list even if I just spent a day or two on it. Thank you Sebastian for such a great event will be looking forward for more in future
@hartvenus 4 місяці тому
I have major respect for you not shying away from technical details and longform video content so that we could enjoy a thorough analysis of this amazing tournament.
@SaharshDev 4 місяці тому
Finally! after months of waiting, can't wait to see how it went.
@joranmulderij 4 місяці тому
Thank you so much for making this. Everything about this is inspiring.
@NN-fx6oj 4 місяці тому
This video is among my favorite UKposts videos of the year. It is so full of things to geek out about while being entertaining start to finish. Incredible effort and variety with those bots. Loved all the shenanigans that were snuck in, and the Electric Shockwave trick gave me a good laugh. Thank you to everyone and happy holidays.
@nopfp416 4 місяці тому
I made the bot "LowEloBrain" which was one of the bots that only looked 1 move in the future as it was my first time using c# I didn't want it to be too difficult to make but also didn't want it to come last and gladly it didn't not sure if the bots in the video but it was nice trying c# and making something with it
@overrideFunction 4 місяці тому
This was a fantastic video! Thanks for all the work you and the coders put in to make this possible!
@Kalmageddon666 4 місяці тому
Absolutely fantastic Sebastian! Much love! ♥
@N8thegr8erthnu 4 місяці тому
Thanks for running this tournament!! I had so much fun building a bot even though it didn’t come close to first 😂. I ended up working on it as a school project and did a presentation on it :) I hope you will consider doing future events with other games or faerie chess!
@giacomotessera1054 4 місяці тому
This challenge was very fun and engaging. My bot achieved a rank of 243, and as a university student, I'm genuinely pleased with the outcome. Gratitude goes to you for organizing such a rewarding challenge and for sharing inspirational coding videos on your channel. They've truly influenced my perspective on programming and studying with enthusiasm. Hope for more in the future! ;)
@underdweller 4 місяці тому
wonderful! I've been very much looking forward to this video, and boy was it worth it!
@GuillermoAa 4 місяці тому
Excelent video. I'm always impressed by how you can make these more than an hour long videos with such elegant animations, really thought-out scripts and apretiation for the participants, watched it full without even noticing!
@qwerasdliop2810 4 місяці тому
Electric Shockwave bot made me wheeze and left me with my mouth open, by far my favorite among all, it leveraged that it was against a bot perfectly, I think that's incredible really ahahhahah
@LeeOades 4 місяці тому
I had a go at this and it's pretty tricky. My solution was so mind-numbingly boring I didn't want to waste your time with it 😂. Looking forward to seeing some creative solutions. Thanks again!
@wittywarbler1117 4 місяці тому
ive been so incredibly excited to see this. tysm for making it!
@danielhallback 4 місяці тому
Love all of the chess videos !! Thanks for the amazing work!
@slemsvamp 4 місяці тому
Adding a comment both to help with the algorithm, your work is always so dang inspiring, and to say thank you for doing this! This was a very fun and interesting project, nice to see the results! :)
@SebastianLague 4 місяці тому
Thank you! :)
@Qfeys 4 місяці тому
I got place 429! Better than expected, honestly. Especially considering that I looked nothing up about how modern chess engines work, so everything was from first principles. Pretty happy with the result.
@zokaper801 4 місяці тому
really excited, been waiting a while for this video!
@negativerainbow 4 місяці тому
I just found this randomly in my feed, and I have to say this looks like it was a ton of fun. I've been trying to get motivated to start coding again for fun instead of just work, and these kinds of projects look like an amazing way to get people motivated to program something and give it a go!
@PatrikBergsten 4 місяці тому
I love the sound of the pieces being placed on the board
@alexandrebellanger9646 4 місяці тому
Was happy to take part in this challenge, even if my bot didn't perform very well. Thank you Sebastian for making this !
@simonisenberg4516 4 місяці тому
Amazing breadth of approaches and solutions. Thanks for the deep dive.
@Patashu 4 місяці тому
A beautiful, entertaining, creative work. My hat is off to you for making so many decisions and putting in so much work to convey a sample of everything the tournament had to offer.
@sentinelav 4 місяці тому
"You like chessing boys don't you?" If you know, you know
@creatorofimages7925 4 місяці тому
Tremendous work!! Thank you so much for this video. Truly the best video for the end of 2023!!
@melomaniakjm 2 місяці тому
Fascinating! Thank you so much for this.
@thatprogramer 4 місяці тому
Du gör väldigt bra videor och du har inspirerat mig att göra mina egna projekt! -Edit: I can't wait for this to start!
@bobbiesterling574 4 місяці тому
out of all the videos ive watched in the last few months, this one has held my cat's attention the most, and so therefore this is the best youtube video in the last few months, because i cannot imagine a better metric than that
@Graverman 4 місяці тому
I love this! Challenges like this always lead to interesting ideas being developed. I really hope for more content like this!
@AntiVectorTV 4 місяці тому
The little "podium" with a handful of confetti at the end was adorable!
@meistermoehrchen 4 місяці тому
Thank you for creating this challenge! Was a lot of fun to participate in and I would be happy to see other events like this in the future :) I am slightly confused how my second version of the bot, which is significantly stronger and has played 58 | 2 | 0 against the older version, hasn't come into the knockout stage, while the older version did. I guess I had somewhere a flaw against other bots which I've not recognized xD Nontheless; I am sure, that that one would not have come that much further ^^ Again Thank You
@LankyLuke97 4 місяці тому
Superb as always. Many thanks to Sebastian are in order.
@Ahri-- 4 місяці тому
I am really blown away on how much about programming I don't know about. Some of these are just incredible only for the concept and then the entire chess algorithm (or bad apple) behind it. Really amazed about how you were able to explain them so clearly. Really huge props
@TejasIsAmazing 4 місяці тому
This was fun to participate in! Seeing the different bots people made and the strategies they used was pretty cool. My own bot came at 322th place, but I did just give up on it after failing to figure out some implementation. But still, I wouldn't have even attempted, if you didn't provide any sort of API, which made the challanges a lot more interesting and fun.
@zarpela 4 місяці тому
ILVM was such a genius approach! Gets my fan favorite spot; Boychesser was amazing, never would’ve thought of just completely ignoring some moves.
@strangejune 4 місяці тому
Branch pruning is essential to chess engines that want maximum performance. You can use early judgements as well as heuristics to skip analyzing branches that you think are worse than a branch you've already seen.
@TundraKaffe1 4 місяці тому
What a high effort video, really enjoyed every part of it!
@George_Bland 4 місяці тому
I’ve been looking forward to this! Great job everyone who submitted!
@snorkfr0ken 4 місяці тому
The bishop promotion at 56:21 was just high class 😎
@JoshuaGutz 4 місяці тому
If I could only ever watch one UKposts channel for the rest of time it would be yours. Keep it up!
@stefanmilicevic5322 4 місяці тому
That was insane! Huge applause for every participant, and a special applause for the top 3. Also, a big round of applause for you for hosting the tournament. The whole tournament was very informative and exciting.
@l.ongman 4 місяці тому
Thanks Sebastian and everyone for the effort! Easily my fav vid around the year. The storytelling is absolutely fantastic too!
@RealGhoda 4 місяці тому
BadApple was so unexpected and so goofy i love it
@JC-jz6rx 4 місяці тому
This exceeded my expectations. I didn’t participate this time , but this certainly makes me want to give it a try. I’m a web developer , so I never have to use any of these fancy algorithms and such, but man does this make me want to try. Please do more of this style of video in the future.
@eboatwright_ 4 місяці тому
Loved this video all the way through! I really wish I'd gotten into chess programming sooner, but as it is this has helped my engine immensely! I was so stuck on implementing aspiration windows because I couldn't find any helpful code examples, but while watching this video I implemented it hahaha
@mollthecoder 4 місяці тому
I'd love to see more competitions like this in the future!
@kierkegaard54 4 місяці тому
This has become my favorite UKposts channel... Just after 3B1B :) thank u Sebastian
@theunknown1050 4 місяці тому
This challenge made me learn so much. I began thinking there was no way I could make a chess bot, but I ended up making a tutorial teaching basic minimax and alpha beta pruning :)
@Citrus_-ff7qf 4 місяці тому
If it's ok to share, what was your learning journey in detail, which documentation/books and materials have you started and ended etc...
@theunknown1050 4 місяці тому
@@Citrus_-ff7qf I just watched a lot of UKposts videos on basic bots. Sebastian lagues mini max and alpha beta pruning one was really helpful
@pride6438 3 місяці тому
Wonderfully structured video and a brilliant concept for a chess bot tournament! Enjoyed it all the way through
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