The web experiment is named GenChess, which, as the name implies, uses Gemini Imagen 3, Google’s image-generation model, allowing players to customize their own chess pieces using text prompts.

The game starts by letting you type in a short description for what the white pieces should look like; it’ll generate the set using its Imagen 3 AI ... to play on, since most chess apps are ...

Rather than moving pieces across a flat board as in regular chess, players of 3D chess would move pieces up and down various ...