Hacker News with Generative AI: Chess

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

131 points by xlinux 2 days ago | 35 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 5 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

688 points by crescit_eundo 7 days ago | 471 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

137 points by gregorymichael 7 days ago | 57 comments

Pi Chess Board (readymag.website)

Chess, Design, Products

303 points by GordonS 11 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 11 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 11 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 17 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 19 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 20 days ago | 36 comments

Programming a computer for playing chess (1950) [pdf] (unipv.it)

Chess, Programming, History, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

117 points by teleforce 26 days ago | 31 comments

What happens when you make a move in lichess.org? (davidreis.me)
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes every time you make a move in your favorite online chess platform?

Chess, Online Gaming, Software Development, Web Development

359 points by dreis_sw 29 days ago | 158 comments

Grandmaster-level chess without search (github.com/google-deepmind)
This repository provides an implementation of our paper Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search.

Chess, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Science

365 points by lawrenceyan 35 days ago | 168 comments

Grandmaster expelled from team chess championship after phone found in toilet (chess.com)
22-year-old GM Kirill Shevchenko has been expelled from the 2024 Spanish Team Championship with his draw against GM Bassem Amin in round one and win over GM Francisco Vallejo in round two turned into losses.

Chess, Sports, Controversy, Competition

57 points by seanhunter 37 days ago | 28 comments

The Greatest Checkmate Ever Given (youtube.com)

Chess, Youtube, Strategy

9 points by mellosouls 38 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Termichess – Play chess in your terminal (github.com/whiletruelearn)
TermiChess is a terminal app for playing Chess built using Python with the amazing Textual library. Play chess in your terminal with a minimalistic interface and Stockfish integration for chess engine.

Chess, Python, Terminal Applications, Open Source, Gaming

50 points by krishnasangeeth 45 days ago | 28 comments

A code walkthrough modeling the rules of Chess in a functional (Clojure) way (neuroning.com)

Functional Programming, Clojure, Chess, Game Development

25 points by ferd 52 days ago | 6 comments

Lichess: Post-Mortem of Our Longest Downtime (lichess.org)
From 14:54 UTC on the 12th September until 01:33 UTC on the 13th September, Lichess experienced the longest downtime in its history.

Online Games, Downtime, Chess, Website Issues

176 points by jpablo 63 days ago | 53 comments

A Case Study of Reflex Epilepsy Induced by Playing Chess (lichess.org)
An electrical storm in the brain reveals links between chess and (some) other forms of complex thought.

Epilepsy, Neuroscience, Chess, Cognitive Science

46 points by Akcium 67 days ago | 9 comments

ChessDream, a place for chess players to improve (vercel.app)
Play, evaluate and analyze games with the strongest engine out there.

Chess, Online Communities, AI, Games, Learning

28 points by pukarkhanal 70 days ago | 19 comments

Storing Files in Chess Games for Free Cloud Storage [video] (youtube.com)

Chess, Cloud Storage, Video, Gaming, Free Services

10 points by tbliu 73 days ago | 2 comments

Sumochess, Chess Variant (sumochess.org)

Chess, Games, Programming

8 points by pingou 81 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Printing Chess Boards in a Terminal (github.com/GeertBosch)