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Re: One Million Chessboards

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> 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

I didn't like the idea of a queen on one board capturing the king on another board as her first move. And then I tried this rule and thought it created really fun counterplay when you're trying to capture a piece someone else is controlling, since you can move to a new board to be safe (and can lay traps this way). I'm sorry you don't like that decision! But I think that I stand by it.

There exists a player, as of today, who can capture across borders with no apparent in-between cross-color moves or delay.

Re: One Million Chessboards

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Ah 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…

did you reset the board? whites are back to 990k+ kings
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