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A smidge off topic, but I'm curious; is there a place where you can upload (say) a chess bot you designed and play against other uploaded chess bots? (or any move base game, even as simple as 'paper rock scissors')?

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You can do so on lichess. Basically you create a chess engine, set it as a bot account, and let it go against other engines and real players.

I don't do it myself, but more info here: https://lichess.org/blog/WvDNticAAMu_mHKP/welcome-lichess-bo... And here: https://lichess.org/api#operation/botAccountUpgrade

Oh! Excellent... Thanks!

You can also use the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) as a test bed for chess engines. The interface is telnet-based, so it's pretty easy to experiment with and learn. There's also "zippy" mode in xboard that allows you to connect your engine to FICS .

The commands below will login as a guest and display all of the computer accounts. Use the finger command to find info about an account.

  telnet freechess.org
  g <ENTER>
  who C<ENTER>
  finger ACCOUNT

Sadly, FICS has been dying a slow death for the past 10 years ... but there are plenty of idle CPU accounts waiting for an opponent.

Lichess allows you to upload a custom bots and play them (and other can too), and I believe you can also run against other bots. There's also https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship, but IDK how one enters.

Haha I remember a friend had made a lisp one with as few lines as he could use, on his macbook which he used the gyro to install smackbook to change the virtual desktop. https://www.engadget.com/2006-05-25-smackbook-and-macsaber-b... good times.

Yeah, I also thought this was going to be bot vs bot :)

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