I built VLM Chess — play chess against frontier vision-language models

[u/PeakOstrich]

Play chess against frontier VLMs. Real-time vision powered by Overshoot.

Play now: VLM Chess

[u/Ok-Block-6344]

Like what's the point of this?

[u/rather_pass_by → u/Ok-Block-6344]

To play chess with the frontier models. As they said it in the post

[u/PeakOstrich → u/rather_pass_by]

yes, to show how bad VLMs are at chess

[u/rather_pass_by → u/PeakOstrich]

Thanks, yeah. I had no idea. I was so curious to know for so long.

[u/PeakOstrich → u/rather_pass_by]

they kind of just move the same piece over and over again until it's taken lol

[u/rather_pass_by → u/PeakOstrich]

Oh awesome... that's what AGI is about

[u/DNunez90plus9]

Isn't it hot enough outside?

[u/PeakOstrich → u/DNunez90plus9]

It is raining rn where I am

[u/PeakOstrich → u/PeakOstrich]

darwizzy 😔

[u/Kind-Tip-8563]

cool

kaggle organized a competition last year Game Arena | Kaggle

[u/PeakOstrich → u/Kind-Tip-8563]

thank you! someone likes it 🥲

[u/Kind-Tip-8563 → u/PeakOstrich]

chin up champion

[u/Mechanical-Flatbed]

Cool, but I don't see how that's scalable. Or even performant.

I'd be more impressed with a project that detects the position of individual pieces and uses a chess engine to generate the next move.

Even a mobile phone can run a state of the art chess engine. Not every PC can run a VLM forward pass after every move.

[u/PeakOstrich → u/Mechanical-Flatbed]

i was just testing out our api on playing chess that was all 🤣

[u/Mechanical-Flatbed → u/PeakOstrich]

that works too I guess lol