Kaggle Game Arena is starting with an AI exhibition chess tournament. A unique and powerful approach to understanding AI capabilities, Kaggle Game Arena, in partnership with Google DeepMind, announced a new platform where leading AI models will compete head-to-head in chess and other games. It will feature Kimi k2 (Moonshot AI), Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google), Gemini 2.5 Flash (Google), o3 (OpenAI), o4-mini (OpenAI), Claude 4 Opus (Anthropic), Grok 4 (xAI), and DeepSeek R1. Scroll down for the full pairings of the Kaggle AI Chess Exhibition.
Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, alongside Magnus Carlsen and Gotham Chess, will be the commentators of the Kaggle Game Arena AI exhibition chess tournament. Nakamura’s coverage starts at 19:00 CEST, scroll down for the full video coverage.
Kaggle Game Arena AI chess timeline
03.08.2025 TCEC Season 28 Premier Division started
04.08.2025 Kaggle Game Arena is starting with an AI exhibition chess tournament
04.08.2025 Kaggle AI Chess Exhibition Tournament LIVE
05.08.2025 Gotham Chess, “Google notice me and created the Kaggle Game Arena”
05.08.2025 Interview with Grok ahead of Kaggle Game Arena AI exhibition chess tournament
05.08.2025 Kaggle AI Chess Exhibition pairings
05.08.2025 Guess the elo, Kaggle AI chess with Hikaru Nakamura
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