Coding Challenge Announcement: Tiny Chess Bots

Hello! Here's a little coding challenge for anyone who'd like to take part: you have until October 1st to create a tiny chess bot in C# using the framework linked below. You can find more details about the challenge on that page as well.

This challenge is now over. You can find the results over here!

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:10 Bot Brain Capacity
2:43 The Tournament
3:08 How to Participate
5:00 Outro

Music credits:
A Gentle Pulse by Imprismed
The Cliffs by Trevor Kowalski
Forest Overture by Yehezkel Raz

[skaemusic]

Hi I just wanted to say that unfortunately your challenge turned from a chess coding challenge to a code shrinking challenge

[bishop]

Ty for giving me something to do over summer break

[Mr_Shqah]

Can you make a video about fluid simulation?

I am trying to make one, but I found no good video explaining fluid simulations.

[faqeerhasnain]

Just want to say, I love you sebastian, You are an inspiration.

[SebastianLague]

Hey everyone -- a number of people have encountered a bug with the board.GetPiece() function, which was a massive oversight on my part. I'm very sorry about that, and have updated the code on github to fix the mistake. If you are participating, please make sure you have the latest version (you can see more info on the Change Log section of the readme in the repo).

[Tepalus]

I may use this as my very FIRST programming challenge :D I gonna fail horribly, but it's gonna be fun. lol

[wersty]

I just LOVE CBT











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[eichopf]

your last video convinced me to retry an old chess programming project, so i guess i’m obliged to take part in this 😅

[superturkey]

I was too late, but had fun making a bot nonetheless! Thanks for the Challenge! You're my programming hero!

[coocanoot]

I don't know a damn thing about code but I still think this is super cool and a fun idea. I can't wait to see what comes of it! My appreciation for Sebastian Lague grows ever further; despite my not knowing shit my dude, not a fuck!

[tempo]

Good thing you gave us so much time. I spent about 10 minutes on the project, then got side tracked for the rest of the day while creating a WPF application to display the current token counter.

[advancenine]

OMG this is so rad. This guy is the best there is on YouTube and all parallel YouTube universes

[avyayirde]

Im giddy with excitement!!
this should be super fun!!

[lythd]

YES! i was so excited seeing the community post

[pauln]

Im now awaiting the cleverest way someone managed to put stockfish into it.

[gala_vs]

Lessss exams over on 1 aug, just what i needed,

GLHF everyone ❤

[AIAdev]

Very cool idea! I love the creativity coming out of game dev YT RN

[upload_schedule]

The fact that i was thinking already about coding some sort of noob chess program for so long, but i just was to lazy and i felt like setting up the hole ui and the play bot vs itself thing etc etc was gonna take me toooo long.... but now i have motivation and im happy
yay

[keithrobinson]

Late to the party, but this is an amazing challenge! I'm just starting to learn chess AI so this is exactly what I needed!

[markoltedal]

Wow I've been wanting to make a chess bot since I made a Minecraft chess AI datapack, perfect opportunity