Spending 10 months building the most human-like chess bot(mbuffett.com)
29 points by marcusbuffett | 10 comments
A blog post by Marcus Buffett describing ten months spent building a chess bot designed to play like a human.
#chess on Hacker News
17 stories tagged chess, newest first.
Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games(github.com)
67 points by brumar | 46 comments
GitHub repository of Claude Code skills that produce chess game post-mortems: Stockfish-backed annotated PGN, an HTML viewer, and narrated video.
Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike(princechazz.com)
409 points by cowboy_henk | 136 comments
Website for Prince Chazz, a browser-playable chess-inspired roguelike game shared as a Show HN project.
1D Chess(rowan441.github.io)
941 points by burnt-resistor | 155 comments
A browser-playable one-dimensional chess variant by Rowan Monk where the player plays white against an AI on an eight-square board.
Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship(fide.com)
352 points by prophylaxis | 240 comments
FIDE news post announcing that Magnus Carlsen won the 2026 FIDE Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship.
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The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video](youtube.com)
319 points by cjaackie | 320 comments
A 7-minute YouTube video by ZachAhern1 about playing against the surprisingly strong chess bot on Delta Air Lines' in-flight entertainment system.
No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves(lichess.org)
333 points by emporas | 169 comments
Lichess blog post arguing/proving that no reachable chess position has more than 218 legal moves.
LLMs aren't world models(yosefk.com)
330 points by ingve | 189 comments
Blog post by Yossi Kreinin arguing that large language models are not world models, illustrated with examples like LLMs losing track of chess board state.
Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app(offchess.com)
332 points by avadhesh18 | 149 comments
Landing page for OffChess, an ad-free iPhone and Android app with over 100,000 chess puzzles that work fully offline.
Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history(lichess.org)
1061 points by alexmolas | 433 comments
Lichess blog post covering round 14 of the 2024 World Chess Championship, where Gukesh beat Ding Liren to become the youngest world champion.
OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now(dynomight.net)
467 points by dmazin | 419 comments
Dynomight blog post following up on why gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct plays chess well while other LLMs play poorly, testing several theories.
Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess(dynomight.substack.com)
626 points by crescit_eundo | 424 comments
A Dynomight newsletter post examining how well large language models play chess and why results vary strangely across models.
What happens when you make a move in lichess.org?(davidreis.me)
333 points by dreis_sw | 135 comments
Blog post examining the network traffic and backend processes, including WebSocket connections, triggered when a player makes a move on lichess.org.
Grandmaster-level chess without search(github.com)
340 points by lawrenceyan | 150 comments
GitHub repository from Google DeepMind with code, data, and checkpoints for the paper 'Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search'.
Static Chess(val.town)
464 points by maxmcd | 107 comments
A Val Town project page for Static Chess, a chess game implemented as static web pages with each board state as a URL.
I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions(twitter.com)
715 points by aa_is_op | 229 comments
A post on X by Gray Crawford showing chess pieces redesigned as geometric symbols that indicate each piece's attack directions.
How to learn chess as an adult (2021)(alexcrompton.com)
492 points by pseudolus | 255 comments
Personal blog post by Alex Crompton describing how he learned chess as an adult, improving from 300 to 1500 Elo in nine months.