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Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB
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#12Codex or Claude Code?
none.
scribbling long enough on a piece of paper is more enjoyable than prompting.
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#13This is amazing! Thanks for sharing. What would be the elo gain for 4KB engine?
P.S. I assume 1200 elo in chess com scale (not lichess / fide elo) and bullet chess variant?
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#14This is amazing! Thanks for sharing. What would be the elo gain for 4KB engine? P.S. I assume 1200 elo in chess com scale (not lichess / fide elo) and bullet chess variant?
There is a TCEC category for 4k engines. The top ones are ~3000 Elo.
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#15Oh my god the source is so tiny! It's really hard to parse because of it being minified but I love it to bits.
Re: Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB
#16This is amazing! Thanks for sharing. What would be the elo gain for 4KB engine? P.S. I assume 1200 elo in chess com scale (not lichess / fide elo) and bullet chess variant?
There is a TCEC category for 4k engines. The top ones are ~3000 Elo.
It's wild to think that 4096 bytes are sufficient to play chess on a level beyond anything humans ever achieved. Makes you think what other difficult tasks are out there that take even highly gifted humans years or decades to master, but a superior algorithm would more or less fit into one of those big QR code formats.
These things always make me think back to Westworld season 2, where the finale revealed that human minds are much simpler than they themselves believe and fit completely into an algorithm that could be printed in an average book.
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#17Good job! I love how you obfuscated your code, really in a spirit of FOSS!
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a TCEC category for 4k engines. The top ones are ~3000 Elo.
It's wild to think that 4096 bytes are sufficient to play chess on a level beyond anything humans ever achieved. Makes you think what other difficult tasks are out there that take even highly gifted humans years or decades to master, but a superior algorithm would more or less fit into one of those big QR code formats. These things always make me think back to Westworld season 2, where the finale revealed that human…
The core search algorithm is very simple though. 4KB engines may not run that fast if they do exhaustive search, but they’ll be quite accurate.
According to TCEC the time control is 30 mins + 3 sec, that’s a lot of compute!
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#19Good job! I love how you obfuscated your code, really in a spirit of FOSS!
Coworker: “hey if you have a second, I have a one-liner PR open”
The PR:
Re: Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB
#20Good job! I love how you obfuscated your code, really in a spirit of FOSS!
Oh well, the file initially looked like https://github.com/datavorous/sameshi/blob/7ab4e47144f96becd...
It is hideous now!