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How do spiders know when to stop spidering when they keep getting original content? I assume there's a Gordian solution to the Halting problem like a limit to bytes or seconds. But if you applied the same rules to ebay.com and val.town that doesn't scale.
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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
[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maxim...
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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 pr…
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url length limitations may thwart that, unless it's all compressed which might defeat the purpose
Chrome can supposedly support 32779 characters in the address bar[0], and a legal chess game should not exceed more than ~5900 moves, due to the 50 move rule. That will be enough to encode any valid game if you don't need to support IE. [0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maxim...
I was hoping this was going to be a chess variant where you're not allowed to move any of the pieces.
> When Google indexes this site will we successfully compute all possible chess moves? How do spiders know when to stop spidering when they keep getting original content? I assume there's a Gordian solution to the Halting problem like a limit to bytes or seconds. But if you applied the same rules to ebay.com and val.town that doesn't scale.
Fun 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/...
> When Google indexes this site will we successfully compute all possible chess moves? How do spiders know when to stop spidering when they keep getting original content? I assume there's a Gordian solution to the Halting problem like a limit to bytes or seconds. But if you applied the same rules to ebay.com and val.town that doesn't scale.