Hacker News with Generative AI: Chess

Mastering the Isolated Queen Pawn (IQP) (lichess.org)
The Isolated Queen Pawn (IQP) is one of the most dynamic and intriguing pawn structures in chess.
Chess, Strategy, Tactics
23 points by fzliu 5 days ago | 14 comments
A minimax chess engine in regular expressions (carlini.com)
Can chess, with regular expressions? Yes. Can chess, with regular expressions.
Chess, Regular Expressions, Programming, Artificial Intelligence
557 points by ilya_m 11 days ago | 97 comments
Show HN: Pretty-print your chess games using Prettier (github.com/gmasclet)
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.
Programming, Chess, Tools, Software
103 points by gmasclet 14 days ago | 10 comments
Show HN: I made a screensaver that solves chess puzzles (screensaverchess.com)
Chess, Programming, Screensavers, Games
34 points by binaryinitials 17 days ago | 11 comments
Chess BLITZ tournament breaks polymarket markets (ycombinator.com)
A unique situation has emerged at the intersection of chess and prediction markets following a recent blitz tournament in New York.
Chess, Prediction Markets, Sports
5 points by tuganbaev 17 days ago | 1 comments
First in Chess Championship history, two players agreed to share the title (twitter.com)
Chess, Sports, Championships
10 points by amrrs 17 days ago | 0 comments
Forget jeansgate–Magnus Carlsen's deal with Saudi Arabia is the real story (sportspolitika.news)
While the chess world fixates on the FIDE jeansgate scandal, Carlsen quietly signed a deal to serve as Saudi Arabia's "global ambassador" for the 2025 Esports World Cup.
Chess, Sports, Saudi Arabia, Sponsorship, Esports
15 points by mellosouls 19 days ago | 5 comments
Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen rejoins tournament he quit over wearing jeans (news.sky.com)
World chess number one Magnus Carlsen is back in a major tournament after he quit because he was told to change his jeans.
Chess, Sports, Fashion, Controversy
42 points by austinallegro 19 days ago | 67 comments
Fabiano Caruana, Chess Is Meaningless [video] (youtube.com)
Chess, Video, Opinion
16 points by gone35 21 days ago | 14 comments
Chess: Magnus Carlsen disqualified in N.Y. after refusing to change out of jeans (theguardian.com)
Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, has been disqualified from the World Rapid Championship in New York due to a dress code violation, refusing to change from jeans, after a previous warning. He is also withdrawing from the World Blitz which starts on 30 December.
Chess, Sports, Dress Code, Disqualification
104 points by bookofjoe 21 days ago | 3 comments
Carlsen quits World Rapid and Blitz championship after dress code disagreement (chess.com)
GM Magnus Carlsen will no longer participate in the 2024 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship or the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship after a dress-code disagreement with FIDE.
Chess, Sports, Controversy, Magnus Carlsen, FIDE
345 points by throwup238 21 days ago | 437 comments
Analyzing the World Chess Championship 2024: Empirical synthesized approach (medium.com)
The 2024 World Chess Championship between Gukesh Dommaraju and Ding Liren captivated chess fans worldwide, culminating in an unforgettable finish where Gukesh claimed the title, becoming the youngest-ever World Chess Champion.
Chess, World Championship, Sports, Data Analysis
46 points by maximamel 31 days ago | 47 comments
2024 Lichess Recap (ycombinator.com)
There isn't any official page for this that I can find, but I thought HN might enjoy the 2024 Lichess recap, it's a really nicely done recap of the year on Lichess.
Chess, Lichess, 2024 Recap
10 points by benatkin 32 days ago | 3 comments
The Lichess Game Compressor's Analysis of Game 1 of the World Championships (mcognetta.github.io)
The 2024 Chess World Championships are in the books. The scores, grandmaster commentary, and Stockfish evaluations tell most of the story, but isn't there someone you forgot to ask?
Chess, World Championships, Analysis, Artificial Intelligence
5 points by mcyc 34 days ago | 0 comments
Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history (lichess.org)
GM Gukesh D pressed a slightly better endgame for a long time against GM Ding Liren, who blundered unexpectedly into a losing king and pawn endgame.
Chess, World Championship, Sports
1118 points by alexmolas 37 days ago | 464 comments
How God Plays Chess (2018) (chessbase.com)
It was some time in the early 1980s. Ken Thompson, the man behind Unix and the computer language C, had built a hardware chess machine named Belle, which duly won the World Computer Chess Championship. Ken had also resolved a dispute with IM David Levy on the feasibility of generating endgame databases — by actually generating a four-piece database, king and queen vs king and rook.
Chess, History, Computer Science
161 points by akkartik 39 days ago | 36 comments
Show HN: My Electronic Chessboard That Removes the Concept of Turns (youtube.com)
Hardware, Games, Chess, Innovation
12 points by misprit7 48 days ago | 1 comments
A made-up name is better than no name (mbuffett.com)
In working on Chessbook recently, I often found myself referring to (position, move) pairs. Specifically positions that are stored as EPDs, and moves that are stored in San notation.
Chess, Programming, Naming Conventions
62 points by marcusbuffett 48 days ago | 80 comments
GenChess (labs.google)
AI outputs may sometimes be offensive or inaccurate.
Artificial Intelligence, Chess, Google
269 points by xnx 52 days ago | 235 comments
OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now (dynomight.net)
We recently talked about a mystery: All large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess. All, that is, except for gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, which for some reason can play at an advanced amateur level. This is despite the fact that this model is more than a year old and much smaller than recent models. What’s going on?
Artificial Intelligence, Chess, Programming, Mystery
524 points by dmazin 57 days ago | 460 comments
How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail (obrhubr.org)
A Chess-AI is something of a rite of passage for every software engineer, as is a snake clone or a calculator console application. If you did not try to build one yet, you are certainly missing out (or preserving your own sanity, whatever you prefer).
Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Chess
134 points by xlinux 60 days ago | 38 comments
The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you [video] (youtube.com)
Chess, Artificial Intelligence, Airlines, Video Games, Entertainment
16 points by cjonas 63 days ago | 3 comments
Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess (dynomight.substack.com)
A year ago, there was a lot of talk about large language models (LLMs) playing chess. Word was that if you trained a big enough model on enough text, then you could send it a partially played game, ask it to predict the next move, and it would play at the level of an advanced amateur.
Generative AI, Chess, Artificial Intelligence
696 points by crescit_eundo 64 days ago | 474 comments
Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess (dynomight.net)
A year ago, there was a lot of talk about large language models (LLMs) playing chess. Word was that if you trained a big enough model on enough text, then you could send it a partially played game, ask it to predict the next move, and it would play at the level of an advanced amateur.
Chess, Artificial Intelligence
140 points by gregorymichael 64 days ago | 57 comments
Pi Chess Board (readymag.website)
Chess, Design, Products
303 points by GordonS 68 days ago | 81 comments
Storing Files in Chess Games for Free Cloud Storage [video] (youtube.com)
Chess, Cloud Storage, Video, Creative Projects
4 points by Luc 69 days ago | 1 comments
Brewington Hardaway Becomes First U.S. Born Black Grandmaster (chess.com)
Two and a half decades after GM Maurice Ashley became the first African American grandmaster, GM-elect Brewington Hardaway has climbed to the top of the mountain.
Chess, Race, Achievement, Sports
16 points by dargscisyhp 69 days ago | 3 comments
Byoyomi Explained (1997) (britgo.org)
"Cho Kisei, you've entered byoyomi. Ten minutes left." That must be a familiar sound to Cho Chikun, who goes into byoyomi in most of his games. In the Kisei title match, the time limit is eight hours per player. There are no chess clocks; the time is monitored by a timekeeper. When a player has used all except ten minutes of his time, the timekeeper reads out the seconds, which is the literal meaning of byoyomi.
Go, Time Management, Chess
41 points by akkartik 75 days ago | 15 comments
Building a real pawn that transforms into a queen, automatically [video] (youtube.com)
Robotics, 3D Printing, Chess, DIY Projects, Video
7 points by fortran77 77 days ago | 1 comments
Turn your phone or tablet into a chess clock (itch.io)
Playing chess with the kids today, we finally started to feel the need to impose some sort of time constraint on moves.
Chess, Games, Mobile Apps, Time Management
44 points by surprisetalk 78 days ago | 36 comments