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Thanks a lot for insisting of this, and that end up convincing me. I describe the change in the sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40634675 That was super useful…

I kept thinking about it, did some tests, and you convinced me. So the pawns movements are now changed. It works like that now: - pawns move forward in their "track", just like a r…

> I won against the hard bot :) Congrats! Although I wish it had given you an even harder time! > Add a confirmation to the resign button! Yes, you're right, it is much needed. > C…

Thanks a lot for those feature requests, and most importantly for playing! > Play again in the same checkboard You can indeed get your revenge. When you start a new game, you can c…

oh that is interesting, I haven't thought about changing the appearance of the piece to convey more info. That's definitely something worth exploring. And I agree as well that pawn…

I just fixed the castling bug. Thanks a lot for letting me know.

ah yes, that's a bit clearer now :) And I'm glad that I used to play starcraft before google decided to be involved. > I tried the demo. The default player is too weak. It makes to…

yes, GP reached the same conclusion as you. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40550176 I'm still unsure, as I describe in my reply there, an issue I see is that you can't know t…

I think I see. You mean those tiles, is that correct? https://imgur.com/a/YHSYjSe The way I see it, is that for a rook, it is easy to know which path it can follow. You simply take…

ah I think I understand now. Thanks a lot for clarifying. Although I'll have to re-read you when I rework the implementation. But in any case, the operation is already done very qu…

great to hear, thanks a lot! Thanks a lot for the correction regarding castling. I did look up this page a fair bit when implementing this, and I swear I had seen the rule that cas…

I classic chess, the rooks can move in any direction. Forward, backward and sideways are allowed. The pawns are the only pieces that are limited to forward movements. So the arrows…

That's an interesting suggestion. The pro is that it will simplify things, remove visual and cognitive clutter. The con is that we stray away from classic chess rules, which I'd st…

Yes, someone else here mentioned the four color theorem, and that gave me a few ideas to improve that. For the demo, it actually opens up when you start the game. But it's possible…

actually, I realise now that the implementation I shared in my previous comment is a generic one. At some point, I decided to make a variation of it, specialised for this board. Th…

There are those little black and white arrows on each tile, which indicate which way is forward for a specific player. Does that help? Or maybe you saw them and you mean something …

Yes, minimizing clutter was a priority, and still is. I've tried to avoid those arrows for a long time, but the pawn movements wasn't clear enough without them. And I agree it's no…

Ah that's interesting, thank you. Especially as Go is the one I'm the most unsure about, mostly because I've rarely played it. I have a feeling that making a semi-decent bot is goi…

> So in this version the bishops can change the color they can move on? It's more that black and white colors don't apply anymore in a grid like this. Since there will be places wh…

I continue my experiment of transposing classic games onto an irregular grid. I've previously released variants of minesweeper and checkers. And now I'd like to share my variant of…

I'm continuing my experiment of revisiting games that are usually set on a regular grid, but using an irregular one. 3 months ago, I did a show HN for a variant of minesweeper ( ht…

That's the path I took with Polygonjs ( https://polygonjs.com ), and a game I've just released ( https://polyreplay.com/minesweepertwist ), with more coming shortly. But it didn't …

Interesting. Thank you for explaining, I understand now. I'm more leaning toward not adding more options, as I'd like to keep the game as simple as possible, but nevertheless I'll …

fair enough. And yes, someone else mentioned here that it's indeed a challenge some players take. So that makes sense, I'll leave it as is. But maybe something's up with the score,…

I didn't realise that completing a grid without putting any flag was a challenge people would take. That's very good to know, thank you. So yes, maybe I'll formalize it, that would…