Werewolf wrote: ↑Sat Aug 09, 2025 6:31 pmMy feelings about ChatGPT-5 remain mixed, however, after 24 hours of work I have a functioning chess engine - my first.
Good work - well done!
You might have to do it again in a few weeks - the market is expecting GPT-5 to lose the throne very soon - link.
Gemini 3?
Writing a chess engine is less fun than I imagined, I am literally spending 95% of my time de-bugging
Big leaps forward are made by creative people, then the top slots are steadily taken by those who have a good mentality for patient debugging and tuning. Then another great idea comes along. Loop continues until the product is "good enough". Then it becomes a commodity product.
Human chess is partly about tactics and strategy, but mostly about memory
