Early Development

Exploring Chess Engines, Game Theory, and AI Agents

HotHand Systems is a small, independent team experimenting with board game engines and intelligent agent design.

We work on these projects outside of our professional roles, driven by curiosity, research, and a shared interest in complex systems and strategic games.
Current Projects

HotHand Chess Engine

Our primary project, HotHandChess, is a publically available chess engine under active development. The goal is to design and experiment with established chess computing design techniques, from representation and search to evaluation and agent behavior. At the moment, we are still laying the ground work before making anything complicated.

Connect Four Agent

Using the AI Agent from our Connect Four Kernel Module, we created a web version you can play for yourself. Includes a visualization for how the AI ranks it's moves.


Play Connect Four
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