Show HN: Play chess with 100's of AI generated historical/fictional characters

Hello Hacker News community,

I'm Michael. Over the past few months, my wife and I have been working on a project that we're excited to share with you all. It's a chess game that we've built from the ground up.

A couple of years ago, I developed a keen interest in chess. However, I found that I didn't particularly enjoy playing against other humans. The anxiety was just too much for me. Instead, I found myself gravitating towards playing against chess bots.

This led us to the idea for our game. We wanted to create a chess game where you could play against a bot, but with an added twist. We wanted to incorporate an element of conversation into the game.

The way we've achieved this is by using the OpenAI API to act as various characters and provide commentary as the game progresses and 'injecting' the game state into the conversation prompt. This allows the bot to have a deeper understanding of the current state of the chess game, and it can then comment on it.

All the character avatars were created in Midjourney.

We're really excited about this project and we hope you'll enjoy it as much as we've enjoyed creating it. We're looking forward to hearing your feedback and thoughts.