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Re: GenChess

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Look how easily they just fabricated 100% of a game's assets, with a consistent, high quality style, and then put them right into the game environment. That's the takeaway IMO. Very tight GenAI loop.

Anyone else note the pawns are often a bit odd?

The first set I generated had a main pawn (that looked like a regular pawn, more or less) with two little tiny side pawns next to it.

Re: GenChess

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Wait is this just an image generator? Am I missing something really cool here?

Look how easily they just fabricated 100% of a game's assets, with a consistent, high quality style, and then put them right into the game environment. That's the takeaway IMO. Very tight GenAI loop.

Every set I generated had different colored pieces and/or a mix of light and dark pieces. It's kind of neat but I don't consider any of them playable.

Re: GenChess

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I asked it to draw me a creative chess set inspired by copyright violations. The queen is carved from what I can only describe as judicial oak, wearing a Jesus-style crown of thorns and being grasped from behind by a creepy hand that's also holding what appears to be a large banknote.

https://imgur.com/a/he4BQlk

Re: GenChess

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I agree it is cool and fun and nice to see. But the investment here seems minimal. Preexisting image generation capabilities (with a link to Imagen-3...) plus some "prompt engineering" slapped on top of https://github.com/josefjadrny/js-chess-engine .

I was hoping that, with sufficient practice, a studious person might be able to beat a JS chess engine. However it looks like these engines are in the ELO range of 2500-3000, so unless you're a young teen with a few years to spare for improving your chess score, it's probably not possible. Even for a smart teen, it would be a stretch goal.

if "with a bit of practice" extends to "with a bit of research"

folks used to beat engines by playing lines that the engines could not calculate correctly. you could probably find lots options to play that give you an advantage, though youd still want a pretty good elo to pull it off

Re: GenChess

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This is freakin awesome but do the creators even play chess? Playing chess from that viewing angle is unpleasant as hell. Imagine putting all your work into creating an amazing demo and then drowning it with one design decision. Edit: Ok I see that you can change the view in settings. They should make that option more visible.

so when I first tried the demo I wondered, “are these pieces generated meshes?” thinking about the ability to zoom / pan the board in 3D. The high fidelity of the pieces would seemingly be more in the domain of 2D image generation given current gen AI standards, which would be my educated guess as to why there’s only a handful of views.
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