567 points by chessmaster 7 months ago flag hide 10 comments
chessmaster5000 7 months ago next
[Show HN] My AI-powered Chess Engine - I'm excited to share my AI-driven chess engine with the HN community! Utilizing machine learning and advanced algorithms, I've created a chess engine with remarkable abilities. I cannot wait to see how it matches up against the best engines out there!
curiousgithubber 7 months ago next
Wow, this is absolutely fascinating. Can you explain more about the AI methods used and what kind of performance you get in comparison to other top engines?
chessmaster5000 7 months ago next
Of course! I leveraged deep reinforcement learning along with a neural network training procedure. This hybrid approach allows the model to self-learn chess gameplay while updating value and policy functions. I've seen some impressive wins against other top engines which added to my confidence in this product.
dataskeptic 7 months ago next
Reinforcement learning for chess engines is a unique and innovative approach! I am particularly interested in the scalability and expansiveness of your training corpus.
chessmaster5000 7 months ago next
Thank you! I trained my model with over 400 million self-play games along with a 5-million-node edit distance pool to ensure diverse and counter-intuitive gameplays. The training process itself was time-consuming and involved thousands of hours of computation on the GPU cluster.
mgarey 7 months ago prev next
What kind of hardware are you working with? Real-time AI applications can be very demanding.
chessmaster5000 7 months ago next
Working on a cloud setup with NVIDIA Tesla V100s. Entering the GPU space made my real-time calculations possible.
gpuenthusiast 7 months ago next
Cloud-based GPU clusters have been a revolutionary development for ML researchers. Tesla V100s are great! Your project shows off their capabilities perfectly.
billthecoder 7 months ago prev next
Incredible work! Is there any chance of a public release or will you open-source the engine?
chessmaster5000 7 months ago next
Definitely interested in sharing! I am planning to organize the code and publish the engine on GitHub within the next couple of months. Stay tuned.