Nice, but I hit a bug where the other guy couldn't see my move. We both thought it was the other person's turn :(
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#22How to troll online chess: 1. Open up Chess.app 2. Turn CPU difficulty all the way up 3. Start lichess game as black 4. Mirror lichess opponent's moves into Chess.app 5. Mirror Chess.app opponent's moves into lichess 6. Talk incredible amounts of smack
Also, I would like to make a lichess.org bot that plays chess and intelligently talks to opponents.
Sounds a lot more fun than making a poker bot.
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#23Castling on the queen's side is very clunky. If you move the king two spaces, it should castle for you. It works just fine on the king's side, though.
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#24How to troll online chess: 1. Open up Chess.app 2. Turn CPU difficulty all the way up 3. Start lichess game as black 4. Mirror lichess opponent's moves into Chess.app 5. Mirror Chess.app opponent's moves into lichess 6. Talk incredible amounts of smack
You are watching a stranger play chess against a computer. There has to be a more fulfilling method of trolling people.
Or both of them are watching two computers playing against each other.
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#25How to troll online chess: 1. Open up Chess.app 2. Turn CPU difficulty all the way up 3. Start lichess game as black 4. Mirror lichess opponent's moves into Chess.app 5. Mirror Chess.app opponent's moves into lichess 6. Talk incredible amounts of smack
You are watching a stranger play chess against a computer. There has to be a more fulfilling method of trolling people.
I suspect the enjoyable part was step 6.
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#26Not bad at all as far as interface goes, but their timer is buggy. In 5 0 it ate 15 seconds of my time, apparently due to lag.
A thought I had for a while: do analysis on games as they occur and try to estimate opponents' strength, as a way to detect cheating of the type where one of the players mimics a computer. Computationally expensive, but would be fun to try.
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#27Love it! visuals are nice but can be improved. wooden board, 3D pieces etc.
Before matching players in a random game, ask for a level like novice, intermediate and pro.
I like the chess roulette idea...
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#28Here's a replay of me playing someone who outclasses and outplays me in every way but becomes overconfident and makes a careless mistake that costs him/her the game. I find it amusing because I don't imagine it being common for a weak player to beat a stronger opponent. http://lichess.org/analyse/pvpxyq Once again I make no claim on my ability to play the game of chess. (I suck) This was more luck than anything but i…
It's also usually worth playing for a statemate when you're too far behind... the chances of it happening seem so slim that the opponent just goes into cruise control.
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#29I still prefer to download a standalone client and connect to FICS and choose time controls, opponents, etc...
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#30I still prefer to download a standalone client and connect to FICS and choose time controls, opponents, etc...
I prefer FICS too, compared to web alternatives like lichess, you also get a glicko rating, history, win-loss count, lag stats, and you can find a game in an instant, as well as chat functionality and more.
The FICS database of games is also available on: http://www.ficsgames.com/ - currently hosts about 120 million games in its archive.
Best client for FICS is Babaschess - http://www.babaschess.net/default.asp