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chess39 commented on Show HN: Chess but you make your own starting position   chess39.com/... · Posted by u/chess39
gus_massa · 4 months ago
Too late to edit:

> I'm a professional chess player

I'm NOT a professional chess player

chess39 · 4 months 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 smarter, you can increase depth and think time in settings

chess39 commented on Show HN: Chess but you make your own starting position   chess39.com/... · Posted by u/chess39
gus_massa · 4 months ago
Bug report: The computer promoted a pawn to a rook and in at the same time I got check mated by the rook. The UI didn't detect the check mate, I just were unable to move.

It would be nice to add the initial position to the transcript, and also a permalink to share the game.

chess39 · 4 months 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 two squares from the second row only.

There is an option to save your setup (for registered users) and also option to set up for computer (in computer settings).

Tournament is a super idea, neat way to make a theory of setups:)

Awesome ideas with the initial position transcript and permalinks, we’ll work on the implementation!

chess39 commented on Show HN: Chess but you make your own starting position   chess39.com/... · Posted by u/chess39
Panzerschrek · 4 months ago
It's pretty unbalanced. The computer opponent can decide which pieces it uses after I make my choice.
chess39 · 4 months 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 setups and see which one is stronger

chess39 commented on Show HN: Chess but you make your own starting position   chess39.com/... · Posted by u/chess39
lavren1974 · 4 months ago
Interesting! I launched the chess960v2.com project a couple of days ago! I'm actively working on the online game, and I think it'll be ready in a couple of days. Why 39 points of material?
chess39 · 4 months 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 infinite

chess39 commented on Show HN: Chess but you make your own starting position   chess39.com/... · Posted by u/chess39
chess39 · 4 months 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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chess39 · 5 months ago
even with long term storage?
chess39 commented on Ask HN: Best LLM for coding after Anthropic cut Max plan limits?    · Posted by u/iosifnicolae2
chess39 · 5 months 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

chess39 commented on No more slop: Perplexity makes its $200 AI browser free   businessinsider.com/perpl... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
chess39 · 5 months 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

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