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Chess puzzle, but you are what you capture

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Re: Chess puzzle, but you are what you capture

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Post by Waterluvian »

vlw wrote: post #79
Waterluvian wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the music, but consider starting it muted and only downloading 3.6MB of mp3 if someone unmutes. This might be a good idea because it's typical that web games like this usually don't play music or even sounds. It's kind of a context thing? If in a game app, music and sounds are expected... if it's a website, not so much. This would also help reduce the fairly large download that makes the game a bit chonky to l…

I don't agree, most games (even web games) play music. A "normal" website should not play music, I agree. But this is a game. Plus I for one liked the cute sound effects and didn't even think about the music as something unusual.

Yes and no. How many “daily” web games play music?

Re: Chess puzzle, but you are what you capture

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Post by filleduchaos »

ramly wrote: post #27
khazhoux wrote: post #24

Very clever. Congrats!

Thanks! Really appreciate the support. If you're up for a real challenge, check out this puzzle: https://echochess.com/game.html?game_mode=DAILY&level_type=E... Looks super innocent but has already stumped a GM. Happy to give hints if you'd like. gl :)

I'm not sure I'm getting the right one - this has a bishop, a knight, a king and a pawn - but this is my result:

ECHO CHESS Mar 22 (C)

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0:25 sec 1/8 tries 5 moves

Edit: it's definitely the wrong one, from poking around the site out of confusion it turns out you have to be logged in to access previous days' puzzles - but the game page itself does absolutely nothing to tell you this and just loads today's puzzle if you open an archive link.

I don't exactly feel like handing over my phone number just to play a puzzle game. Bummer, I guess.

Re: Chess puzzle, but you are what you capture

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Post by TheRealPomax »

chedoku wrote: post #87
gverrilla wrote: post #82

I like the game, and the website, but this daily format combined with how fast the game is to play doesn't get me engaged enough to save it to my favbar and return - I just didn't have enough time to get hooked and really dislike artificial scarcity like this. Wordle worked imo because it's so immersive and it's not as rapid to conclude - also because there is a very limited set of 5 words in english comparing to che…

Hi, Check puzzle archive or Zen mode. Infinite number of puzzles are waiting for you.

You're not getting my phone number, thanks.

If you just want to send a code, and you want to tie it to some kind of identifier token, take the less-than-a-day that it takes to add normal "trusted third party" authentication, where you ask google/facebook/github/whoever to confirm this is a real person.

And then you don't have to save any personal information, either (which laws both in the US and EU say includes phone numbers), which means you also can't LEAK personal information when someone inevitably gets into your database.

Re: Chess puzzle, but you are what you capture

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Post by chedoku »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #95
chedoku wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, Check puzzle archive or Zen mode. Infinite number of puzzles are waiting for you.

You're not getting my phone number, thanks. If you just want to send a code, and you want to tie it to some kind of identifier token, take the less-than-a-day that it takes to add normal "trusted third party" authentication, where you ask google/facebook/github/whoever to confirm this is a real person. And then you don't have to save any personal information, either (which laws both in the US and EU say includes phon…

zen-mode does not need you phone number.

Re: Chess puzzle, but you are what you capture

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Post by chedoku »

thih9 wrote: post #94

I like it, but I find it frustrating that zen mode is timed and that I have to login to access past puzzles - I don't find it enjoyable or worth it with these constrains.

Not happy about it too. but the trick is to refresh the page and press shuffle to get a new puzzle. ;)

Re: Chess puzzle, but you are what you capture

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Post by TheRealPomax »

chedoku wrote: post #96
TheRealPomax wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not getting my phone number, thanks. If you just want to send a code, and you want to tie it to some kind of identifier token, take the less-than-a-day that it takes to add normal "trusted third party" authentication, where you ask google/facebook/github/whoever to confirm this is a real person. And then you don't have to save any personal information, either (which laws both in the US and EU say includes phon…

zen-mode does not need you phone number.

but then that wasn't the only thing you mentioned. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829237

Re: Chess puzzle, but you are what you capture

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Post by latexr »

The idea isn’t bad, but I’m struggling to understand why a login is required to access an archive of free content, and why said login requires a phone number. Again, to access ostensibly free content.

That makes me really suspicious about what you do with the phone number.

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