chess39

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by chess39 11mo ago
Spot on with castling and pawns! One idea is to allow pawns to jump from 1 to 3, I believe that’s how it’s done in horde. Nice setup ideas! Beating the bot is quite hard, so maybe you are professional? :) If you want to make the bot even sm
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by chess39 11mo ago
Thank you a lot for the review and great ideas, we’ll be working to add the suggested features! Castling is possible if king and rook were spawned on the standard chess positions and hadn’t moved (e.g. king on e1 and rook on a1) Pawns move
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by chess39 11mo ago
Each opponent sets up for themselves so by default computer makes its own setup In computer settings you can toggle manual setup for computer, which allows you to set up for computer You can also let computer play against itself! Make two s
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by chess39 11mo ago
Looking forward to see! 39 is the total in standard chess - if you sum up values of a queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 knights, and 8 pawns the result is 39. King should be on board but doesn’t count towards the total since it’s basically infin
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by chess39 11mo ago
Make any starting position with 39 points of material. When players are ready the setups are revealed and normal chess rules apply. Play against computer, with a friend, or multiplayer
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Show HN: Chess but you make your own starting position(chess39.com)
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by chess39 1y ago
even with long term storage?
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by chess39 1y ago
I am really impressed with codex cli on gpt 5 codex high It seems like it has a better overview of a codebase (whereas sonnet picks up bits), which allows it to make more advanced features
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by chess39 1y ago
Will AI companies ever be profitable? Even OpenAI, $500B valuation with ~$10B sales, 50 P/S ratio with high cash burn And it’s unlikely users will agree to higher prices with so many open source alternatives