Strong Compute Chess Hackathon

Spend 2 days training AI Chess bots on GPUs in SF or Sydney ✨🚀.

Mega Chess Hackathon Overview:

Get hands-on with rapid neural network training using Strong Compute’s Instant SuperComputer (ISC) in our Mega Chess Hackathon!

Compete over two days to build the best chess-playing AI with access to 48 GPU clusters and explore models, datasets, and hyperparameters.

Details:

• Prize: $10k-$100k compute grant for open-source AI research.

• Challenge: Train a deep neural network to evaluate chess moves based on game history and board states.

• Resources: StockFish-evaluated board states, historic game PGNs, and code examples.

• Compute: Dedicated GPU access via the ISC platform.

• Judging: Tournament-style model face-off.

Accepted participants will get the full task, dataset, and model specifics a week before. Register today to get a head start!

Participant Requirements:

• Experience with PyTorch and cluster training is preferred but not mandatory.

• Skills in large-scale clusters (64+ GPUs) are highly valued.

• Teams of 1 to 3 members are allowed. Include your team members’ names when registering. Approved participants will receive a link to our Discord competition channel.

Locations:

• San Francisco, USA: Venue details will be shared upon successful application. 🇺🇸

• Sydney, Australia: Register here 🇦🇺

🗓️ Event Schedule:

San Francisco:

Friday:

• 6:00 pm: Drinks, snacks + networking

• 6:30 pm: Set-up, onboarding, test training run + inference

• 7:30 pm: Competition begins 🎉

• 8:30 pm: Dinner

• Late: hacking

Saturday:

• 9:00 am: Day two start, breakfast

• 1:00 pm: Lunch

• 7:30 pm: Dinner

• 8:00 pm: Final submissions 📝

• 9:00 pm: Competition begins ♟️

• 11:00 pm: Winners announced 🏆

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