I can't distinguish the pieces well enough to play a good game. Anyone have this plugged into lichess?
The Kilobyte’s Gambit
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#12It was great to play against the AI this weekend, rekindled some of the love I have for chess. I know the rules but I'm a very novice player. Took me 6 tries to checkmate. I cheered loudly. The style is very neat as well!
Re: The Kilobyte’s Gambit
#13Well this is certainly very cool. It reacts well enough to my moves but I get the feeling that it does not know any of the established openings so each game starts a bit weird. Will keep going and try to beat it though.
If it keeps winning, maybe the established openings aren’t that useful :P But that’s the problem with solved games: You compete on the familiarity with and memorization of established patterns.
Chess isn't a solved game and the established openings are good enough that playing without prior analysis is extremely difficult for even the best human players
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#14I loved this footnote:
"NB: if puzzled by a pawn move, please check for en passant before reporting a bug"
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#15it went with a non-standard response to a queen's pawn opening and lost most of the pawns on the kingside falling into checkmate after getting baited into a trade that was good for it on material but devestating on position
really cool
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#16That was a blast! I'll echo the sentiment that the pieces were hard to differentiate, but the aesthetic was awesome.
Seems like it only really looks out one move ahead, taking whatever has the most value, otherwise protecting.
Thanks for sharing!
...now imagine what you could do with 2048 bytes!
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#17Love it, hard to discern pieces though. Would guess this thing has an elo of 400-800, coming from someone who is 1800 so take it with a grain of salt
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#18That was a blast! I'll echo the sentiment that the pieces were hard to differentiate, but the aesthetic was awesome. Seems like it only really looks out one move ahead, taking whatever has the most value, otherwise protecting. Thanks for sharing! ...now imagine what you could do with 2048 bytes!
It looks 4 steps ahead with a points system for pieces & positions, but has no sense of broader strategy.
(The original code looked ahead 3 moves, but browsers & devices have improved a lot in the last 11 years)
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#19I loved this footnote: "NB: if puzzled by a pawn move, please check for en passant before reporting a bug"
I added it out of desperation after around 100 people on reddit claimed the black pawns are "cheating".
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#20Beautiful work.
I've been doing a lot of chess puzzles this last year and apparently it's paid off quite well. An easy mate. Though I've been inspired to make a (less beautiful) chess game.