Fun, but so hard to see the pieces!
Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked
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Re: Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked
#22I love the concept. I wouldn't prefer to play chess this way, but I've had a lot of practice, I find it visually a little distracting but I started getting used to it. I had a situation where my queen was being attacked by a bishop, and the board showed a "safe" space to move my queen, but that queen would have still been attacked by the bishop along that diagonal. Not sure how you solve that, maybe when clicking on…
On Lichess you can visualize then confirm your move, helps a lot
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#23as someone who is SO BAD at chess, black moving instantly still gave me pause
I'm extremely mediocre and also found the instant-black-move a bit confusing. Would definitely be an improvement to add a "trail."
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#24This is a cool program. What system is it using for the “play with computer”? Is it custom or one of the available chess engines? I wonder if there is a way to alter the difficulty of the computer program.
Looks like computer moves randomly:
/*************************************************************
* Computer Move (random)
*************************************************************/
function computerMove(){
if (gameOver) return;
let wasWhite=whiteToMove;
let moves=generateLegalMoves(wasWhite);
if (moves.length===0){
detectGameState();
return;
}
let randIndex=Math.floor(Math.random()*moves.length);
let move=moves[randIndex];
makeMove(move);
renderBoard();
detectGameState();
if (!wasWhite){
fullmoveNumber++;
}
}Re: Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked
#25False advertisement. I played a single match and the AI very very quickly blundered their queen to my bishop, and later a bunch of other pieces. This bot way is worse than Martin (250) form chess.com.
Also, those colors are horrible to see. And it's really hard to see which piece the AI is moving each turn.
Re: Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked
#26Makes me wonder how good players "see" the board. Like what parts are "highlighted" and is it always changing as you ponder different aspects of the game, or more static?
Re: Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked
#27False advertisement. I played a single match and the AI very very quickly blundered their queen to my bishop, and later a bunch of other pieces. This bot way is worse than Martin (250) form chess.com. Also, those colors are horrible to see. And it's really hard to see which piece the AI is moving each turn.
>those colors are horrible to see
After someone gave me feedback on lichess, I tried a heatmap instead (with green for white and red black), I'm not sure it's an improvement but you can see if you like it any better: https://taonexus.com/blunderfreechess2.html
Re: Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked
#28I love the concept. I wouldn't prefer to play chess this way, but I've had a lot of practice, I find it visually a little distracting but I started getting used to it. I had a situation where my queen was being attacked by a bishop, and the board showed a "safe" space to move my queen, but that queen would have still been attacked by the bishop along that diagonal. Not sure how you solve that, maybe when clicking on…
>I love the concept.
Thanks!
>I had a situation where my queen was being attacked by a bishop, and the board showed a "safe" space to move my queen, but that queen would have still been attacked by the bishop along that diagonal.
Are you sure? Can you send a screenshot? Any place the opposing bishop attacks would have a dot on it. (The green highlighting when you pick up a piece shows all legal moves, not just safe moves.)
Re: Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked
#29False advertisement. I played a single match and the AI very very quickly blundered their queen to my bishop, and later a bunch of other pieces. This bot way is worse than Martin (250) form chess.com. Also, those colors are horrible to see. And it's really hard to see which piece the AI is moving each turn.
>those colors are horrible to see After someone gave me feedback on lichess, I tried a heatmap instead (with green for white and red black), I'm not sure it's an improvement but you can see if you like it any better: https://taonexus.com/blunderfreechess2.html
Good improvement, much easier on the eyes!
Re: Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked
#30I love the concept. I wouldn't prefer to play chess this way, but I've had a lot of practice, I find it visually a little distracting but I started getting used to it. I had a situation where my queen was being attacked by a bishop, and the board showed a "safe" space to move my queen, but that queen would have still been attacked by the bishop along that diagonal. Not sure how you solve that, maybe when clicking on…
>I love the concept. Thanks! >I had a situation where my queen was being attacked by a bishop, and the board showed a "safe" space to move my queen, but that queen would have still been attacked by the bishop along that diagonal. Are you sure? Can you send a screenshot? Any place the opposing bishop attacks would have a dot on it. (The green highlighting when you pick up a piece shows all legal moves, not just safe m…
This is presumably what they mean: https://imgur.com/bPFmcSp
The square to the bottom right of the Queen isn't "currently" visible to the bishop, but if the Queen moved into that square they'd still be killed by the bishop.