Creative Chess

This project was originally the assignment for the Computational Creativity course at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The goal of the assignment was to design an application that implements any form of AI, to either be creative or help humans be creative. In the report, we had to defend any creativity claims, using the frameworks existing computational creativity literature. My idea consisted of forcing an existing chess engine (I chose Stockfish) to play more creative moves. I designed a scoring scheme to evaluate whether or not creative moves were played, and I trained forcing weights in a reinforcement learning manner. In the end, I pitted two of the trained chess engines against each other and generated some weird and fun chess games. I reasoned that by analysing these games, it could be possible to learn new chess lines/constructs.

At the end of the course, the lecturer (Prof. Dr. Geraint Wiggins) told us that ICCC had put out a call for short papers, of which the requirements corresponded entirely with the assignment. I submitted my reformatted report and it got accepted.

While I think that this project was not groundbreaking nor very interesting for competitive chess players, it was fun to work on. If you are interested, you can find the paper here.
Also, take a look at the GitHub repository: