It's interesting how the game will end. Will it end up in a deadlock, or in a fierce duel of two power pieces with hundreds of players behind each struggling to gain control concurrently?
One Million Chessboards
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#52It's interesting how the game will end. Will it end up in a deadlock, or in a fierce duel of two power pieces with hundreds of players behind each struggling to gain control concurrently?
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#53> You can move between boards. Evidently move between boards but not capture between boards :-( It's extra weird because it's not that the movement isn't projected (e.g. queen blue lines all point correctly across board boundaries just the lines always stop at every piece on the other board, regardless of color) So, I guess as an exercise in scale, well done! As one million chess boards, caveat gamator
In particular that means that if you fill the border up to a depth of 2 on one board with pieces, it becomes a theoretically inpenetrable fortress.
For an overdone example see 2024,4219.
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#54(Also submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43822992 ) Neat, though I expected every individual board to have "turns" - I didn't expect that I could just pick a random board, liberate the black queen, and have her clean up every single white piece on the board without my "opponent" getting to do anything in return.
oh huh, I'm not sure why this one made it to the front page and not the link to my site! Anyway, yeah, I guess I could have gone with turns here but I thought that building a more realtime MMO thing where pieces could cross boards would be a little more interesting and novel. I also didn't feel like a version of this that was turn based would ever complete. certainly a queen can go wipe out a whole board, but the gam…
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
oh huh, I'm not sure why this one made it to the front page and not the link to my site! Anyway, yeah, I guess I could have gone with turns here but I thought that building a more realtime MMO thing where pieces could cross boards would be a little more interesting and novel. I also didn't feel like a version of this that was turn based would ever complete. certainly a queen can go wipe out a whole board, but the gam…
Individuals here on hacker news tend to gravitate towards blog posts about games rather than links to actual games, generally. Not a hard fast rule, but it's what I've observed over the years.
As I get older, I find I'm often more interested in reading about things than trying the thing myself. I often go straight to the comments about articles rather than even reading them.
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#58I saw a black piece moving around very quickly. Is there a secret way to move without clicking twice?
Was it a queen or rook?
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#59I predict this will evolve into bot warfare! For example, here's a snippet to advance pawns: https://gist.github.com/yayitswei/442cd5128b2dbfbd95a101b70f...
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#60Ah hello! I made this :) My blog describing it is pretty sparse, sorry about that. Happy to answer any questions that folks have about the architecture. Not that it was necessary, but I got really into building this out as a single process that could handle many (10k+/sec) moves for thousands of concurrent clients. I learned a whole lot! And I found golang to be a really good fit for this, since you mostly want to gi…
Where are the instructions or rules?