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Re: Static Chess

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Post by thih9 »

thih9 wrote: post #98
tromp wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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... ;)

OK, this one is definitely more fair: https://chess.maxmcd.com/rnbqkbnr/qqqqqqqq/qqqqqqqq/qqqqqqqq...

Re: Static Chess

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Post by pushedx »

afauroux wrote: post #109

I did a static chess page myself some time ago but with p2p connection (using webRTC) so you can play with a friend: - [Try it]( https://afauroux.github.io/chess/ ) - [Fork it]( https://github.com/afauroux/chess )

I really like the sound effects. Especially check.

Re: Static Chess

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

donatj wrote: post #101

I’m frankly kind of bummed that this isn’t fully static chess. As in every possible move is a pre-rendered html file on a server somewhere. This is more akin to how Yahoo Games and other chess sites worked in the early aughts.

I think a compromise would be more practical: every position that has actually occurred as a pre-rendered html file, with novel positions generated dynamically.

Re: Static Chess

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Post by afauroux »

pushedx wrote: post #112
afauroux wrote: post #109

I did a static chess page myself some time ago but with p2p connection (using webRTC) so you can play with a friend: - [Try it]( https://afauroux.github.io/chess/ ) - [Fork it]( https://github.com/afauroux/chess )

I really like the sound effects. Especially check.

Thanks, I made them with GarageBand and Audacity, I think. The check sound is made from a recording of my girlfriend with added echoes ;-)

Re: Static Chess

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Post by heroku »

Sesse__ wrote: post #79
cyborgx7 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I admit that while I do regularly play chess, I'm not super well versed in either FEN nor Chess960. That said, I've been trying to figure out why you would need a different notation for Chess960 for half an hour now, and I just can't figure it out. All explanations I'm seeing just make some vague mention about ambiguity in the regular notation for Chess960, but I, personally, can't think of a situation in which the r…

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.

the king always has to be in between rooks in chess960

Re: Static Chess

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Post by deadbabe »

jtriangle wrote: post #47
throw9474 wrote: post #17

Nice 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?

It also doesn't allow en passant

Wow, I’ve never even heard of en passant. These kind of niche obscure rules seem antithetical to the elegant nature of chess.

Re: Static Chess

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Post by Jeremy1026 »

RespiceFinem wrote: post #103
Jeremy1026 wrote: post #102

Was just playing around a little and found a bug. In the following position it won't let me play F8. https://maxm-staticchess.web.val.run/rnb1kbnr/pp2P1pp/3p4/q1...

It's not a bug. f8=X is illegal since white is in check from the Queen on a5.

Sure is. That what you get for just clicking around randomly and not paying attention to what is where.

Re: Static Chess

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Post by mlyle »

heroku wrote: post #115
Sesse__ wrote: post #79

Earlier 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.

the king always has to be in between rooks in chess960

As a starting position, sure.

But if you have a later board state, with two rooks on one side: how do you know which one is still eligible to castle?

Re: Static Chess

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Post by angry_albatross »

afauroux wrote: post #109

I did a static chess page myself some time ago but with p2p connection (using webRTC) so you can play with a friend: - [Try it]( https://afauroux.github.io/chess/ ) - [Fork it]( https://github.com/afauroux/chess )

I noticed a weird bug where sometimes the game will auto-move for a player. In particular, this seems to happen when one queen captures a piece, and the opposing side has the ability to capture that queen with their queen, the game automatically makes the 'queen takes queen' capture.

Re: Static Chess

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Post by bluedevil2k »

deadbabe wrote: post #116
jtriangle wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It also doesn't allow en passant

Wow, I’ve never even heard of en passant. These kind of niche obscure rules seem antithetical to the elegant nature of chess.

This and castling strike me as the kind of rules where a King like Henry VIII was losing and decided to castle for the first time ever and his opponent was too scared to say anything to stop it.
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