The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton
A chess database, playing, and opening-training app for Apple platforms with an Apple-native GUI and iCloud sync between devices. It supports repertoire management and spaced-repetition opening memorisation, and implements human-like computer opponents at all levels using a transformer-based model (similar to the Maia 3 paper) combined with a very small search. It also covers chess variants: a companion Apple Watch app for 5x5 chess, a 10x10 chess Easter egg game, and work in progress on hexagonal chess.
What it addresses
Existing chess tools like ChessBase lack an Apple-native GUI and iCloud sync, and for chess variants there are no large databases of human games to train on, making weak-but-enjoyable opponent levels challenging to implement.
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The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton
A chess database, playing, and opening-training app for Apple platforms with an Apple-native GUI and iCloud sync between devices. It supports repertoire management and spaced-repetition opening memorisation, and implements human-like computer opponents at all levels using a transformer-based model (similar to the Maia 3 paper) combined with a very small search. It also covers chess variants: a companion Apple Watch app for 5x5 chess, a 10x10 chess Easter egg game, and work in progress on hexagonal chess.
Problem: Existing chess tools like ChessBase lack an Apple-native GUI and iCloud sync, and for chess variants there are no large databases of human games to train on, making weak-but-enjoyable opponent levels challenging to implement.
Posted by @Oreb · Original comment ↗
“I’m working on The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton, a chess database/playing/opening training app for Apple platforms: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mqfhpmHY”