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Yes, they're distinguished: the pieces you place there manually ("fixed pieces" are opaque and thus should have the same color, off-white or dark-grey, no matter the background squ…

Thanks for the feedback! It's a simple modification to guarantee things like this – for this prototype I thought it interesting though to expose the "raw" output of the neural netw…

Thanks! Ah, sorry for that. Just to clarify, do you mean for the semi-transparent pieces (the generated ones without "locking in") or even the manually placed pieces?

Hi, thanks for trying Noctie! If you did the rating test, Noctie tries to adapt to your strength while you're playing, so if you play at 2574 level for a while, eventually Noctie w…

Hey, you're right, adjust piece count is a local modification, so opening the same dreamId in multiple windows would let you view the position with different piece counts (and the …

Thanks! Good idea, I could add FEN / PGN export in addition to lichess. I haven't tried conditioning the network on opening but given my training data, that should be possible. For…

For no specific reason, I trained a neural network to generate random chess positions that look similar to positions from actual games (from lichess db). I also made it so you can …

Hey HN, I posted a proof-of-concept of Noctie here some 17 months ago (”Noctie – A chess AI that predicts your rating”) and got really encouraging responses. Since then I’ve worked…

Hey, that's really cool, will check it out! The backend was experiencing some issues leading to laggy play by Noctie, I hope it's working better now.

Thanks! Yes, the traffic from here exposed a few issues & bottlenecks in the backend infrastructure. I have resolved most of them and it seems to be running OK now (?). To answer y…

Good suggestions, thanks.

Thanks for the valuable feedback!

If the opening is rated as sufficiently bad, it would adjust its play accordingly and perhaps not challenge you sufficiently to be able to change its rating estimate. I.e. if you g…

I think you were just unlucky with the opening! When I'm testing it's about 60/40 1...e5 vs 1...c5. The first opening moves should be quite close to what a 1600 FIDE player plays i…

Sorry for the bad experience, Noctie got stuck for a while due to a bottleneck in my cloud setup

Sorry for the bad experience, I had a service outage for a while

Perfect break entertainment

It seems to be working again. It looks like something wasn't working out with my cloud autoscaling setup..

Sorry, it seems to be very slow right now due to some quota issue :( I'm debugging right now.

It seems one of my services has hit a quota, trying to find out which..

Thanks!

Thanks! For board representation and legal move generation I use chess.js in the frontend, and shakmaty in the Rust engine.

OK, sorry for that, the part with back/forward is very useful info for debugging though. Do you mind sharing what browser / setup you're using?

Thanks for sharing your experience! It's a very interesting point about how you adapt your play based on the preconception about how computers play. The AI isn't programmed to blun…