A Chess Intelligence

Over the last few weeks I have been planning what could become an awesome new feature. I want to write an online chess AI which players could challenge and play against on my site. The AI would have a rating like everyone else and this rating would increase or decrease as it wins or loses games. Obviously it would be imperative that everyone knew that this player was an AI, and the ban on players using an AI to assist their own games would still stand.

Q: So why do I want to do this?
A: For the challenge of it, and for the boost it could give the site. Writing a chess AI is very challenging (believe me, I've done it before with limited success) but the rewards make it worth while when you see it come up with a move far better than one you could have come with. I've never been beaten by one of my own chess AIs before, but the as I get better at writing them then that milestone will come.

Watch this space in the future... :)