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Chess Is the Killer App
- lostgame 8y agoChess is the only game my partner seems to play on her phone. We also play it together in person. I love the pacing, the strategy, the conversations, the intellectual nature of it.
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- lee101 8y agoCheckout https://bigmultiplayerchess.com https://bigmultiplayerchess.com! its a multiplayer chess deathmatch variant (for free)
- threatofrain 8y agoMagnus Carlsen commentating over 1-minute chess tournament mentioned in article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32A79jhXQgs&t=450 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32A79jhXQgs&t=450
- galfarragem 8y agoIt's nice to see that Lichess is here to stay. If somebody from Lichess is reading: a big thank you.
- _ttg 8y agowatching this vid has reminded how much the chess world is lucky to have MC as its flagship ambassador. He is almost the ideal WC. Caruana would be such a huge stepdown. Michal Krasenkow has compared Caruana to Euwe - "[Caruana] is an extremely pleasant young man and an outstanding player but lacking a unique personal style and a champion's charisma." I couldn't agree more.
- cellis 8y agoThe best chess channel I have found is agadmator. Amazing manner of explaining chess and very entertaining. Here's a video about Alpha Zero vs. StockFish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb3_eRNoH_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb3_eRNoH_w
- arlindohall 8y agoI love agadmator, also a big fan of ChessNetwork. Two different styles of commentary but both very entertaining.
- std_throwawayay 8y agoI find ChessNetwork much more clean and accessible for beginners. https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork There's also a series beginner to master covering the basic topics of chess. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQsLDm9Rq9bHKEBnElquF8GuWkI1EJ8Zp https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQsLDm9Rq9bHKEBnElquF...
- lbolla 8y agoChessbrah is also a very fun channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/chessbrah https://www.youtube.com/user/chessbrah
- andy_adams 8y agoI spend far too much time watching chess, so I’ll chime in here with a couple of channels/people that really show how chess can be entertainment. Daniel King (PowerPlayChess) is a Grand Master who does commentary on most major chess events. His explanations are deep, interesting, and colored with historical background: https://youtube.com/user/PowerPlayChess https://youtube.com/user/PowerPlayChess And if you want your mind blown, watch Andrew Tang (penguingm1) play blindfold 15 second games: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6ygQMw4rBHg https://youtube.com/watch?v=6ygQMw4rBHg Sorry for sending you down those rabbit holes!
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- nuclx 8y agoJust redesign it so that there is always a winner. The draws really bore the sh*t out of me.
- wulfmann 8y agowould you remove draws from all other games as well?
- nuclx 8y agoMy words were harsh and I probably deserve the downvotes. It just appears like it is getting ever more evident, that chess results in a draw assuming perfect play. That doesn't diminish the accomplishments of world class chess players in any way, but it feels like there is a reachable skill cap allowing black to force a draw. I'm not even sure if it's possible to design a "fair" game, which always has a winner, assuming no randomization. Go is most likely closer to that goal than chess, as it always has a winner and allows to compensate for the first-mover advantage using a score bias. Then of course finding an optimal value for the bias is a hard problem.
- jki275 8y ago"perfect play" referring to chess is a silly concept.
- nuclx 8y agoNo it's not, defining it as: If it's possible for a player to force a win or draw, do it. Just because it's computationally unfeasible to determine, doesn't mean it isn't theoretically possible to decide.
- jki275 8y agoThat's the point, while chess is deterministic, it's not computationally feasible to play the game perfectly.
- maceurt 8y agoChess is a game where everybody can play it almost anywhere, and there is no physical advantage one has over another. There also is a huge amount of stuff that is possible to learn about the game to become better at it, so there is no real limit to how much you can learn about the game. The only thing that I dislike about chess is the people who play it. The culture around many chess circle's seems very pretentious and snotty to me.
- known 8y agoChess saves people from alcohol in India http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170511-the-indian-village-addicted-to-chess http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170511-the-indian-village-...
- galfarragem 8y agoI really like chess 'permanency' and to know that the time 'wasted' mastering it will not be lost. Chess is relevant now and it will be during my lifetime.
- psb 8y agoMy kids think I'm weird for watching chess but it is a perfect background show to have on - baseball is the other sport that works fairly well. There are also some really fantastic commentators (Peter Svidler and Jan Gustaffson are my favorites). Finally most of the top players are also almost absurdly humble and friendly
- lawn 8y agoSnooker, let's plays and esports in general fill this niche for me very well. I previously got very into Go which also worked well so I can absolutely see chess serving you well.
- ellius 8y agoI don't have kids yet, but I'm looking forward to the prospect of having Starcraft and chess tournaments on along with my usual Sunday football once I do. One (obvious) very cool thing about the internet is that these hobbies that previously weren't profitably marketable can be televised and commentated on at very low cost.
- gpvos 8y agoBack in the 1980s and '90s when the internet wasn't generally available and Teletext ruled Europe, the pages on which you could follow live chess championship games were quite popular.
- StevePerkins 8y ago> It is noteworthy that China, one of the two most important countries in the world, has decided to invest heavily in chess. This year Chinese teams won both the men’s and women’s divisions at the Chess Olympiad, a first. I'm somewhat surprised that chess still has a "men's" and "women's" division. Isn't that anachronistic for a "sport" that has virtually no physical component at all? I don't really understand the ELO system by which players are compared, but I believe that one's score is in relation to the competition they have previously faced. Are top females' lower scores not simply self-perpetuated due to not playing the top males?
- ASipos 8y agoThe "men's" championship is actually open to everyone.
- kgwgk 8y agoI think something similar happens in golf. “Men’s” tournaments (at least some of them) are also open to women.
- flanban 8y agoIt's a well covered topic, if you don't know anything about it then this is the wrong place to learn.
- StevePerkins 8y agoWhat a flippant reply. The same could said for questions on in roughly one-quarter of HN threads on any given day. (current front-page selections include T.S. Eliot, exoplanet astronomy, insect biomass, Tokyo street life, Louis Wain's paintings of cats...)
- flanban 8y agoChess touches on the near infinite and reducing it something trite irritated me, so my bad for getting irritated.
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- pjmlp 8y agoAny recommendations for good chess apps on Android?
- jabl 8y agoDroidfish.
- pjmlp 8y agoThanks!
- Buttons840 8y agoLichess is impressive. The tech behind it has been talked about before on HN. It has an app and a webpage.
- pjmlp 8y agoThanks!
- Shorel 8y agoDoes this mean the interest in Go/Weiqi is going down?
- timbit42 8y agoNot in my home.