Chess x ML Hackathon: Build, Train, Win.

The "Chess x ML Hackathon" is a five-day online competition organized by Encode and sponsored by Optiver. Teams build an AI chess engine from scratch, iterate against a public benchmark, and then submit a model for evaluation. The top 16 teams will compete in an in-person final at Encode Hub in London. The challenge is to build a chess engine that performs well against openings it has never seen.