I already love the architecture and I'm excited about brutalist software. Great idea!
We need a brutalist software manifesto.
Static Chess
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Re: Static Chess
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the rooks might move over to the other side during the course of the game, and then it's no longer unambiguous which one is the castling rook. E.g., if you have your king on e1, a rook on f1 and another one on g1… can you castle if the f1 rook moves? Can you castle if the g1 rook moves? Just “kingside” won't tell you the difference.
I mean technically it still isn’t ambiguous because you could just refer to the starting position to see which rook is allowed to move. Which of course is annoying to implement, but you do already have to keep state on the history of the game to determine if moves are legal, e.g. you can’t castle twice.
You don't have the starting position
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#93> Plain, brutalist, no bloat chess. Every page is only html and css. Every chess move is made by clicking a link. Send a link to your friend and they'll send you one back to make your move. No silly animations or slick interactivity to trip up your gameplay. When Google indexes this site will we successfully compute all possible chess moves? > Functionality is quite limited, and things might be broken. Please let me…
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Im not autistic at all and the intent of these write ups was not clear. I understand sarcasm but it's completely unclear if this is sarcastic or not.
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#94> Plain, brutalist, no bloat chess. Every page is only html and css. Every chess move is made by clicking a link. Send a link to your friend and they'll send you one back to make your move. No silly animations or slick interactivity to trip up your gameplay. When Google indexes this site will we successfully compute all possible chess moves? > Functionality is quite limited, and things might be broken. Please let me…
Yeah the idea that you wouldn't want animations in a GAME is hilarious. It must either be a joke or this person is really that far up the "the web shouldn't have js" culty asscrack.
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#96> Plain, brutalist, no bloat chess. Every page is only html and css. Every chess move is made by clicking a link. Send a link to your friend and they'll send you one back to make your move. No silly animations or slick interactivity to trip up your gameplay. When Google indexes this site will we successfully compute all possible chess moves? > Functionality is quite limited, and things might be broken. Please let me…
I suspect it's mostly "because it occured to me I could," which I think should always be an acceptable reason for building something slightly unusual.
I do rather like the idea of play via stateless link passing, though, and honestly the "prettiness" of animations and interactivity does not, at least to me, seem like a net advantage.
"the right technologies" is highly dependent on the user experience you're trying to achieve; in this case I think I'd argue that for the goal at hand, these -were- the right technologies, just like for the UX goals of more featureful sites a different bundle of technologies were the right thing too.
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#97Looks like this missed the opportunity to load the board in JS from the URL to be truly static.
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#98This isn't really static right? It's still dynamically rendered by the backend each time you request the page. There aren't 999999919291293923 pre-rendered pages living on a server somewhere.
Technically speaking, it would require ~ 4.8 * 10^44 pages to cover all legal chess positions [1]. But they're happy to serve utterly illegal positions like https://chess.maxmcd.com/rnbqkbnr/qqqqqqqq/8/8/8/8/QQQQQQQQ/... as well. [1] https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking
The above illegal position example was a checkmate in one, this one is more fair: https://chess.maxmcd.com/rnbqkbnr/qqqqqqqq/qqqqqqqq/8/8/8/QQ... ;)
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#99This isn't really static right? It's still dynamically rendered by the backend each time you request the page. There aren't 999999919291293923 pre-rendered pages living on a server somewhere.
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#100It's a neat demo but surprisingly laggy for a static webpage that has a minimalistic implementation of chess.
Surprising? It has to round trip to the server and grab a new page on every click.