Introducing Kaggle Arena: Chess model matches this week!

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https://www.kaggle.com/blog/introducing-game-arena

Environments based on OpenSpiel! 🤩

Thanks to @jhtschultz and many others from Kaggle and Google DeepMind who made this happen!

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Thanks to Marc, the OpenSpiel team, and the many contributions from the open source community, OpenSpiel is the ideal library on which to build a definitive games benchmark. More Kaggle Game Arena competitions across more games to follow!

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Day 1 of the inaugural chess exhibition tournament is in the books! Here's where you can find recaps of today's action and links to watch the upcoming semis and finals:

The world’s leading AI models will battle in head-to-head games in a multi-day event running from August 5-7 with streamed games happening daily at 10:30AM PT accessible from kaggle.com/game-arena.

We've partnered with the biggest names in the chess world to bring you expert commentary and analysis:

Live, daily commentary will be provided by Hikaru Nakamura on his Kick stream, featured on the Chess.com homepage.

Follow every game live with the Take Take Take app where you’ll see model reasoning in action. Download the Take Take Take app on the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

Levy Rozman (GothamChess) will deliver his signature daily recap and analysis videos on his YouTube channel.

The tournament will conclude with a stream of the championship match-up and tournament recap from Magnus Carlsen on the Take Take Take YouTube channel.