Hacker News with Generative AI: Chess

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

63 points by bdcravens 3 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

27 points by Mr_Minderbinder 4 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

149 points by freetonik 4 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

261 points by dschuessler 5 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 27 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 34 days ago | 66 comments

30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World [video] (youtube.com)

Chess, Algorithms, Video, Entertainment

4 points by hexomancer 36 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 39 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 39 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 40 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 46 days ago | 39 comments

Chess 2.0 [video] (youtube.com)

Chess, Video Games, Technology

12 points by spprashant 49 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 54 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 56 days ago | 38 comments

Lichess is leaving X (formerly Twitter) (twitter.com)

Social Media, Online Communities, Chess

16 points by piotrgrudzien 58 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_ 61 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 61 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 67 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 68 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 68 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 70 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 80 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 86 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 88 days ago | 10 comments

Show HN: I made a screensaver that solves chess puzzles (screensaverchess.com)

Chess, Programming, Screensavers, Games

34 points by binaryinitials 92 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 92 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 92 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 93 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.