Maya Chess AI

Excellent Position achieved after a lot of tactical moves

Inspiration

In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world has seen a Chess boom. From Twitch to Youtube, we can see chess being played everywhere. Thousands of people are signing up on online platforms to get better at the game, which is extremely saddening?! The authors of this project take their ideals very seriously and will, by all means, do what it takes to stand out of the crowd, even if it means practicing to get worse at the game.

What it does

Maya Chess AI is a tool we built to help people deteriorate their gameplay. People do not realize how difficult it is to get worse at the game, and we wish to assist them in the task while also supplementing their efforts.

How we built it

Keeping in mind the AI theme for this year, we decided to use Azure TTS to create our video. Chess AI normally employs the minimax algorithm (along with alpha-beta pruning for optimization). The Minimax algorithm is an algorithm that performs a tree search from the current position to find the best moves. We tweaked the algorithm and the piece evaluation in way such that it now finds the worst (/almost worst) moves.