Hacker News with Generative AI: Chess

Ask HN: What do you think of this idea for a chess variant? (ycombinator.com)
This chess variant has one king and fifteen queens per side, and a piece may only move if it is adjacent to another piece of either color.
Chess, Games, Game Design
5 points by amichail 8 days ago | 9 comments
X-Ray Defence (lichess.org)
X-rays that save your position from surprising angles
Chess, Strategy, Games
58 points by fzliu 9 days ago | 7 comments
Open source, 3D-printable smart chess board (thangs.com)
Print. Click. Play. OpenChess is a fully open source smart chessboard designed to make interactive, intelligent gameplay accessible to everyone. By combining low-cost electronics, 3D printing, and customizable software, OpenChess empowers makers, educators, and chess lovers to build their own connected chess experience — without the high price tag.
Open Source, 3D Printing, Chess, Education, Hardware
65 points by bdcravens 27 days ago | 32 comments
Chess324 – A Chess Variant to Reduce Draws (chessprogramming.org)
Chess324, (or Kaufman Random Chess) a chess variant invented by Larry Kaufman, introduced on Aug 12, 2022 in CCC, [1]. In the variant, all Kings, Rooks, Pawns are in their original locations as chess but other pieces are placed randomly in their first and last ranks, with no symmetry requirement between two sides, with the only restriction for bishops of each side must be on different colored squares.
Chess, Game Design, Artificial Intelligence
28 points by Mr_Minderbinder 27 days ago | 49 comments
Show HN: I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight (rakhim.org)
Reach the target to win.
Games, Programming, Puzzles, Chess
155 points by freetonik 28 days ago | 57 comments
Real Time Chess – A physical chess board without the concept of turns (github.com/misprit7)
Chess is boring. I'm boring too so I enjoy it anyways, but I can't help but think "I could design it better." Normally in chess players move sequentially in turns, but this introduces a huge latency bug that the developers of chess forgot to patch: you spend literally half the time waiting for your opponent!
Chess, Game Design, Software, Hardware
262 points by dschuessler 28 days ago | 42 comments
AI tries to cheat at chess when it's losing (popsci.com)
A new study suggests reasoning models from DeepSeek and OpenAI are learning to manipulate on their own.
Artificial Intelligence, Chess, Machine Learning
5 points by hjjkjhkj 50 days ago | 1 comments
Boris Spassky: 1937–2025 (chessbase.com)
Boris Spassky, the tenth World Chess Champion, was a chess prodigy who became a grandmaster at the young age of 18. He won the World Chess Championship in 1969, and held the title until 1972, when he lost to Bobby Fischer in the famous "Match of the Century". Boris passed on Thursday at the age of 88. He was a decades-long personal friend of the author. | Photo Frederic Friedel, taken in June 2007
Chess, Obituaries
299 points by throwaway81523 57 days ago | 66 comments
30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World [video] (youtube.com)
Chess, Algorithms, Video, Entertainment
4 points by hexomancer 60 days ago | 0 comments
Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked (taonexus.com)
Play versus computer
Chess, Games, Artificial Intelligence, Visualization
36 points by logicallee 63 days ago | 51 comments
When AI thinks it will lose, it sometimes cheats, study finds (time.com)
Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities. But while IBM’s Deep Blue defeated reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in the 1990s by playing by the rules, today’s advanced AI models like OpenAI’s o1-preview are less scrupulous. When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, they don’t always concede, instead sometimes opting to cheat by hacking their opponent so that the bot automatically forfeits the game.
Artificial Intelligence, Games, Ethics, Chess, Science
82 points by haltingproblem 63 days ago | 80 comments
Magnus is auctioning his Jeans (ebay.com)
Chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen's #JeansGate Jeans
Chess, Auctions, Celebrities
16 points by amrrs 64 days ago | 4 comments
Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves (blunderchess.net)
Chess, Games, Programming, Show HN
126 points by eviledamame 69 days ago | 39 comments
Chess 2.0 [video] (youtube.com)
Chess, Video Games, Technology
12 points by spprashant 72 days ago | 1 comments
Masters of the Knight: The Art of Chess Carving in India (atlasobscura.com)
In the bustling streets of Amritsar, India, the markets are lined with shops full of colorful tapestries and sweet treats like warm local chai served in clay mugs. But the real treasures are kept behind closed doors.
Chess, Art, India, Culture, Crafts
9 points by bookofjoe 77 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Matle – A Daily Chess Puzzle Inspired by Wordle (matle.io)
Chess, Puzzles, Games, Wordle, Daily Challenges
85 points by m88m 80 days ago | 38 comments
Lichess is leaving X (formerly Twitter) (twitter.com)
Social Media, Online Communities, Chess
16 points by piotrgrudzien 82 days ago | 4 comments
Can Magnus Carlsen convince people to watch chess? (economist.com)
CHESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long periods before shuffling pieces around a board is somewhat short on sparkle.
Chess, Entertainment, Sports
5 points by _tk_ 84 days ago | 2 comments
Shades of Blunders (lichess.org)
A post about why blunders happen to all of us, even though they shouldn't.
Chess, Mistakes, Strategy
45 points by fzliu 84 days ago | 9 comments
Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games (arstechnica.com)
Physicist used interaction graphs to show how pieces attack and defend to analyze 20,000 top matches.
Chess, Physics, Games, Artificial Intelligence
73 points by pseudolus 90 days ago | 32 comments
Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games (arstechnica.com)
Physicist used interaction graphs to show how pieces attack and defend to analyze 20,000 top matches.
Chess, Physics, Games, Artificial Intelligence
7 points by Tomte 92 days ago | 2 comments
Masters of the Knight: The Art of Chess Carving in India (atlasobscura.com)
In the bustling streets of Amritsar, India, the markets are lined with shops full of colorful tapestries and sweet treats like warm local chai served in clay mugs. But the real treasures are kept behind closed doors.
Chess, India, Art, Culture
6 points by Brajeshwar 92 days ago | 0 comments
I ask this chess puzzle to every new LLM (github.com)
Every other day a new language model drops and I give it this chess puzzle to see if it spits out the correct answer, just for lulz 🤣 I am yet to receive a correct answer in one shot. Maybe also to do with my terrible prompting skills.
Chess, Artificial Intelligence, Programming
25 points by thepoet 94 days ago | 50 comments
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
26 points by fzliu 103 days ago | 15 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 109 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 112 days ago | 10 comments
Show HN: I made a screensaver that solves chess puzzles (screensaverchess.com)
Chess, Programming, Screensavers, Games
34 points by binaryinitials 115 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 115 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 115 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 117 days ago | 5 comments