Open-source Astra Chess lets a Codex session play untimed multi-day games vs humans
MikePFrank · x · 2026-09-15
Developer Mike Frank open-sourced Astra Chess, a public-beta web service where each game runs in its own Codex session backed by Astra/Ultra and an unchanged from-scratch tactical engine.
Key points:
- Human moves are untimed; a single game can span several days
- The repo includes prompts, benchmarks, experiments, replay exports, an OpenRouter experiment log, and deployment docs
- Self-hosting is supported via scripts like runopenrouter.py
- The project is brand new with 0 stars/forks
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