How Chess.com Built Mittens, the Evil Cat Bot Destroying Players’ Souls. By Nitish Pahwa. Jan 24, 2023 3:15 PM. Mittens (center) and some other brutal chess cats. Photo illustration by Slate.

Since Chess.com introduced the Mittens bot with the avatar of a cuddly, big-eyed kitten, the obsession with playing her has been astonishing, according to The Wall Street Journal.

This new chess AI bot has beaten both Hikaru and Gothamchess. Despite its innocent name Mittens and the chess.com ELO of 1, this bot is a menace on the board. But sisters never back down from a ...

Another driver may be Mittens, a big-eyed, deceptively sweet-looking cat bot that began clawing its way through the competition on Chess.com this year.

Leading chess site Chess.com has claimed a popular new AI bot is partly to blame for recent outages and issues with its servers.. Mittens, powered by an artificial intelligence chess algorithm and ...

Since the supercomputer won the chess world champion for the first time in 1997, there have been many examples of AI defeating humans in competitive games. A new bot in the chess world named ...

Mittens, or technically the chess bot known as Mittens, might look cute. Her listed chess rating of a single point seems innocuous. But her play over the past few weeks, ...

Mittens has beaten incredibly strong players like Hikaru and Gothamchess. But can this scary AI bot defeat me using the best gambit in chess? Drop a like and let me know in the comments if you ...

The Chess World’s New Villain: A Cat Named Mittens A ruthless bot with an innocuous avatar is driving chess players crazy illustration: Timmy Huynh/The Wall Street Journal, Visuals: Chess.com ...

Plus, Mittens the cat is a viscous chess bot. On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by Slate’s Nitish Pahwa to discuss a major cheating scandal in the chess world this past fall ...

Back on Jan. 1, the popular online chess site, Chess.com, ... Mittens, is drawing a slew of interest thanks to her vicious play on the board and scathing \u2014 but fun \u2014 in-game commentary.

The heels of the chess world have included Soviet grandmasters, alleged cheaters, and faceless supercomputers. But the game’s latest villain is a fearsome genius who quotes French cinema and has ...