Learned about https://fav.farm and https://val.town from this. Neat resources!
Static Chess
11–20 of 127 posts
Re: Static Chess
#12Can double as a web spider trap.
Re: Static Chess
#13this gives me an idea for a new typescript type level project
Re: Static Chess
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
yeah, I squashed a few bugs here but there is more weirdness. will check it out edit: ah! regular ol' relative/absolute position (been a bit since I wrote css), this should now be fixed!
Working better, but I think some of the old static pages may need to be regenerated?
Probably cached by cloudflare, so either cache needs to be flushed or you need to wait a bit.
Re: Static Chess
#15https://chess.maxmcd.com/rnbqk3/pppp2pB/2P1p3/1P1P2Bp/3n4/b2... very cool, made it all the way to a checkmate
it would be cool if the url was just the chain of the moves. then you just paste the move chain in the URL and you get the board state.
url length limitations may thwart that, unless it's all compressed which might defeat the purpose
Re: Static Chess
#16https://chess.maxmcd.com/rnbqk3/pppp2pB/2P1p3/1P1P2Bp/3n4/b2... very cool, made it all the way to a checkmate
it would be cool if the url was just the chain of the moves. then you just paste the move chain in the URL and you get the board state.
huh, I originally thought this would create unusually long URLs, but if it's just the sequence of moves it could stay pretty small.
might more fun too, representing each state of play instead of just the board position.
Also easily compressible if size is an issue: https://mbuffett.com/posts/compressing-chess-moves
Would also mean all rules can be represented, and you'd be able to do cool things like highlight the previous move that was made.
Nice, ok, might try and add this.
Re: Static Chess
#17Nice that it detects valid moves,
But it doesn't know about checkmate?
https://chess.maxmcd.com/r1b1kRnr/p1ppB2p/n2P2p1/8/7P/1p6/PP...
Should say checkmate?
Re: Static Chess
#18Fun fact: you can use this to play chess960 (i.e. fischer random chess), or any other "custom start position" variant, just by appending a FEN to the URL (replace spaces with underscores).
Example: https://chess.maxmcd.com/bbnqrknr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/...
Re: Static Chess
#19Awesome work! You should put it behind a CDN like Cloudflare and see what's the cache hit ratio
Lichess opening explorer would probably be a fairly accurate indicator of how the cache hit ratios would develop:
https://lichess.org/analysis#explorer
I imagine it would look closer to the Lichess database, which differs quite drastically from the Masters database. For instance, with the masters e4 is met with c5 in 46% of games, but on lichess c5 only happens in 19% of games.
Re: Static Chess
#20This is great to play asynchronously with people quickly and simply :) Great job!