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Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked

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This version of chess can help beginners practice by seeing which squares are under attack (and how heavily) so you don't place your pieces on attacked squares. The size of the circles shows how heavily each square is attacked (or defended) by the respective color, yellow for white and blue for black.

Re: Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked

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I'm curious as to why you wrote your own chess implementation - seems like this would have been much easier to implement with chessboard.js [1] and chess.js [2].

1. https://chessboardjs.com/

2. https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js/blob/master/README.md

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I'm curious as to why you wrote your own chess implementation - seems like this would have been much easier to implement with chessboard.js [1] and chess.js [2]. 1. https://chessboardjs.com/ 2. https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js/blob/master/README.md

They wrote their own because it's more fun to do that, and also because they really wanted me to win. The computer is really really bad

Re: Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked

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This 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.

Close your eyes when you make your moves to increase difficulty
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