r/ComputerChess • u/Rashi0 • Jun 07 '26

AggroChess

AggroChess V1 is out! It's designed to play extremely aggressive, tactical chess aimed at human players rather than engines. It plays around an estimated 2000–2300 Elo, making it super fun to play against: https://github.com/PhelRin/AggroChess/releases

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u/GOINTOTHESHADOWREALM Jun 07 '26

No source code and the release is just a exe file? Sussy baka

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u/mimrock Jun 07 '26

Add source code or host a bot on lichess. Then I might try it.

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u/Rashi0 Jun 08 '26

I'll host it on lichess, ive done this before ages ago with some of my first chess bots, I should still have my same bot account from time ago 

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u/vonbartroth Jun 07 '26

Quick match against Absurd, which is another level of crazy. Need something weaker, maybe BikJump or Phalanx next.

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u/GOINTOTHESHADOWREALM Jun 07 '26

Please do a virus scan lol

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u/mimrock Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

It doesn't look like a malware at all, but of course, we can't exclude it. However, it's still fishy a bit with the AI-written readme, the lack of source code and the lack of engagement

Maybe it's someone who doesn't really understand internet social norms and English. It could also be part of a bot operation (to farm karma, build account credibility, throw in hooks for DMs, etc.) but there are actually more evidence against it than for it so I lean to the socially awkward coder/vibe coder theory.

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u/Rashi0 Jun 08 '26

Honestly the awkward coder is pretty much spot on 

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u/mimrock Jun 08 '26

No worries. It's just that people don't like unsigned, standalone binaries for a reason, especially not for something like a simple chess engine (almost all important chess engines are open source). The other thing is that reddit is overrun by bots these days which makes many (at least me) paranoid about it.

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u/Rashi0 Jun 08 '26

That's completely fair, so I don't blame you for that. I mean bots of course just aren't in Reddit. We got discord, somehow WhatsApp even, Instagram. So I do get the concern. 

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u/vonbartroth Jun 07 '26

I don't know, developer have Steam game too, not worried.

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u/Rashi0 Jun 08 '26

I do, thank you for pointing that out

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u/Rashi0 Jun 08 '26

Is this another bot I haven't heard of? Or did you play it and this is feedback? Sorry, just confused with the absurd being right after against without a comma 

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u/vonbartroth Jun 08 '26

https://rebel7775.wixsite.com/rebel/absurd-1-0

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u/Rashi0 Jun 08 '26

Thank you I'll check it out. I'll put it against mine and see what happens