Simulating Human Chess Play with ML

Maia Chess is a neural network chess engine designed to play like a human. Over the summer of 2022 I worked on research at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) intending to understand how Maia Chess works and improve its prediction of human moves. I primarily focused on writing the input and output moves to Portable Game Notation (PGN) files so they could be more easily visualized, but I also did experiments optimizing hyperparameters and implementing a GAN framework.