[r/ML] [P] Vibecoded on a home PC: building a ~2700 Elo browser-playable neural chess engine with a Karpathy-inspired AI-assisted research loop

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A developer built Autochess NN, a browser-playable neural chess engine with an Elo rating of ~2700, as a personal experiment to understand AlphaZero-style systems. The project heavily utilized an AI-assisted research and coding workflow, inspired by Karpathy's autoresearch loop, demonstrating the power of AI tools for individual development.

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