Tiny Chess Bots
- December 21, 2023
- Sebastian Lague
Starting in July 2023, I ran a friendly contest for programmers around the world to try to code their own chess bots. All they had to begin with was as a simple framework that handled basic operations such as generating legal moves and updating the state of the board. The rest was up to them! As an extra challenge, the size of the bots was limited to just 1024 'tokens' of code. For example, the li…