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Running a Chess YouTube Channel entirely by AI — Stephan Steinfurt, TNG

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AI Engineer· published 2026-07-08· 0:16:31· en-US· indexed 2026-08-11 04:38

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What was stored

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Provenance

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Transcript

170 cues· 2,468 words· 13,294 chars

  1. 0:14 Hello, everyone.
  2. 0:16 Yeah, Swix wrote a blog post and said, OK, don't write boring titles.
  3. 0:20 So I changed my title again, actually, and said, OK, we're working on the holy grail of chess programming.
  4. 0:26 And if you knew me, I mean, I'm usually not the kind of guy who oversells stuff.
  5. 0:30 So it's actually a quote from someone else about this.
  6. 0:34 Because roughly a week ago, there was an article on one of the biggest newspapers in Germany, which was
  7. 0:41 discussed a couple of new approaches to combining AI with chess.
  8. 0:48 And they said it could easily take another five years until AI explains chess as well as a human trainer.
  9. 0:56 William Weber calls it the holy grail of chess program.
  10. 0:59 And work is already underway in Munich.
  11. 1:01 And that's basically where we are from.
  12. 1:04 And we showed them a couple of videos that my bosses mentioned and myself.
  13. 1:09 And yeah, they were completely created by our AI engine.
  14. 1:12 And I want to quickly tell you a little bit how that's working.
  15. 1:16 So maybe you don't want to only show it to the newspaper, but also show it to you.
  16. 1:21 There's a two-minute video of what the outcome is.
  17. 1:25 So I'm going to start it now.
  18. 1:29 In this position, black's queen is currently under fire from the white rook on the h-file.
  19. 1:35 Trying to find safety, black slides the queen over to g4.
  20. 1:40 This is a crushing blunder.
  21. 1:43 It looks like a completely safe square, but moving off the h-file allows white to unleash a spectacular mind-bending sacrifice.
  22. 1:53 White plays rook takes h5.
  23. 1:57 White is offering up a full exchange, but this is a masterful trap built on incredible knight geometry.
  24. 2:05 Let's look at what happens if black takes the bait.
  25. 2:09 First, if black simply recaptures with the g-pawn taking on h5, white springs the trap.
  26. 2:16 The knight jumps into the action with knight to f6 with check.
  27. 2:21 Look at this beautiful octopus knight on f6.
  28. 2:25 It hits the king on g8, while simultaneously skewering that newly placed queen on g4.
  29. 2:32 A lethal fork.
  30. 2:34 The king is forced to step aside to f8, and the knight simply scoops up the queen on g4.
  31. 2:40 But wait, let's back up.
  32. 2:43 What if black tries to be clever and avoids the pawn capture?
  33. 2:47 Black could capture the rook with the queen, playing queen takes h5.
  34. 2:52 But it is the exact same trap.
  35. 2:55 The queen is attracted right into the danger zone.
  36. 2:58 By pulling the queen to h5, white set up the exact same trick and plays knight to f6 check anyway.
  37. 3:06 Once again, the king is attacked, and the knight reaches across the board to attack the queen on h5.
  38. 3:14 No matter how black captures the sacrificed rook, the queen gets forked, because this knight magically controls both g4 and h5.
  39. 3:24 The king must step aside to f8, and the knight captures the queen on h5.
  40. 3:30 This is a gorgeous double duty fork, demonstrating the terrifying hidden power of the knight.
  41. 3:36 Always watch out for these tricky jumping pieces when your king is exposed.
  42. 3:42 So actually, when I prepared the talk yesterday, I wanted to show a different video.
  43. 3:47 But yeah, we are automatically creating these videos every night and uploading them to YouTube.
  44. 3:53 And when I, this morning, had a quick look if there's anything embarrassing there, which I should hide from all of you, I thought, OK, actually, there's this video.
  45. 4:01 And it's actually even better than the other one.
  46. 4:03 So might go for that one.
  47. 4:05 And as I said, it's automatically created.
  48. 4:09 We basically download chess games from Lee Chess every night and analyze them in the background and then let our agent run and analyze it in more depth.
  49. 4:20 From that analysis, we then create some special format from which we can later on then create a video.
  50. 4:27 And the video in the end shows variations being explained.

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