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Six AI models played chess through their CLIs. None of them delivered checkmate.

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I build SpaceApp, a self-hosted workspace for running AI coding CLIs side by side. On 18 October I let six models play chess against each other there, each through its own CLI. Nobody won by checkmate. The way they lost is the interesting part. The setup Players: Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 (through Cla…

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  1. 2026-10-19 17:05 · DEV Community — AI
    Six AI models played chess through their CLIs. None of them delivered checkmate.

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