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I'm curious as to why you wrote your own chess implementation - seems like this would have been much easier to implement with chessboard.js [1] and chess.js [2]

I'm curious as to why you wrote your own chess implementation - seems like this would have been much easier to implement with chessboard.js [1] and chess.js [2]. 1. https://chessboardjs.com/ https://chessboardjs.com/ 2. https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js/blob/master/README.md

mkoryak 2y ago
They wrote their own because it's more fun to do that, and also because they really wanted me to win. The computer is really really bad
- lucb1e 2y ago
  Hey now, I was proud to have won from a chess computer for once!
  - alabastervlog 2y ago
    Glad I'm not the only one who often can't beat even the "easy" computer opponent in chess programs. The main problem is that I only win by having my extremely-stupid blunders overlooked and then spotting my opponent's extremely-stupid blunder, so if the computer never misses my boneheaded blunders and also almost never commits any exploitable-in-one-or-rarely-two-moves blunders of their own, I can't possibly win, zero chance.
- renox 2y ago
  ROFL you're right that the computer is really bad, I won in 7 round which is a first for me (against a computer) and I'm bad at chess. It reminds of a reversi I made for a school projects: users liked it because the computer was so bad that they could win..
logicallee 2y ago
>I'm curious as to why you wrote your own chess implementation I was investigating whether AI can write a complete game of chess in one shot, I livestreamed that here[1] and the answer is no (conclusion: major rules are there, but buggy), but I was able to get it into a working state after many hours of back and forth. The original implementation froze whenever a pawn got to the seventh rank, and allowed castling out of and through check (illegal), it was very buggy. Iterating with the AI, I added tons of stuff like drag to move pieces, mobile support, and, yes, computer play. When that was finished (it is available at: https://taonexus.com/chess.html https://taonexus.com/chess.html ) I had it make this blunder-free variant and it got it pretty fast. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhJ07anVkYk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhJ07anVkYk
bavarianbob 2y ago
Surprisingly, in this context, I frequently came across interfaces that make it difficult to implement certain features using those libraries. There's not a one-size-fits-all implementation yet.

mkoryak 2y ago

They wrote their own because it's more fun to do that, and also because they really wanted me to win. The computer is really really bad

lucb1e 2y ago
Hey now, I was proud to have won from a chess computer for once!
- alabastervlog 2y ago
  Glad I'm not the only one who often can't beat even the "easy" computer opponent in chess programs. The main problem is that I only win by having my extremely-stupid blunders overlooked and then spotting my opponent's extremely-stupid blunder, so if the computer never misses my boneheaded blunders and also almost never commits any exploitable-in-one-or-rarely-two-moves blunders of their own, I can't possibly win, zero chance.
renox 2y ago
ROFL you're right that the computer is really bad, I won in 7 round which is a first for me (against a computer) and I'm bad at chess. It reminds of a reversi I made for a school projects: users liked it because the computer was so bad that they could win..

logicallee 2y ago

>I'm curious as to why you wrote your own chess implementation I was investigating whether AI can write a complete game of chess in one shot, I livestreamed that here[1] and the answer is no (conclusion: major rules are there, but buggy), but I was able to get it into a working state after many hours of back and forth. The original implementation froze whenever a pawn got to the seventh rank, and allowed castling out of and through check (illegal), it was very buggy. Iterating with the AI, I added tons of stuff like drag to move pieces, mobile support, and, yes, computer play. When that was finished (it is available at: https://taonexus.com/chess.html https://taonexus.com/chess.html ) I had it make this blunder-free variant and it got it pretty fast. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhJ07anVkYk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhJ07anVkYk

bavarianbob 2y ago

Surprisingly, in this context, I frequently came across interfaces that make it difficult to implement certain features using those libraries. There's not a one-size-fits-all implementation yet.