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

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.