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Since launch on Lichess, the AI bot Allie has played over 11,600 games, winning more than 6,800. The bot is free and open source, available only in blitz mode, where you can also watch its games live. Created by Carnegie Mellon PhD student Yimin Zhang, Allie was trained not on engine calculations but on 91 million human games, making its style strikingly human-like. Researchers note it performs at grandmaster level, while remaining an excellent and natural sparring partner for learning.
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