Hackernews posts about Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game that requires skillful planning and execution to outmaneuver one's opponent, captivating players of all ages with its timeless appeal.

1. Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship (www.fide.com)
   359 points by prophylaxis 5 days ago | 270 comments
2. Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB (github.com)
   230 points by datavorous_ 7 days ago | 70 comments
3. Chess engines do weird stuff (girl.surgery)
   153 points by admiringly 4 days ago | 81 comments
4. How many chess games are possible? (win-vector.com)
   85 points by jmount 25 days ago | 46 comments
5. Not all Chess960 positions are equally complex (arxiv.org)
   57 points by MaysonL 29 days ago | 27 comments
6. Contra "Grandmaster-level chess without search" (2024) (cosmo.tardis.ac)
   47 points by luu 5 days ago | 5 comments
7. Any chess position with 8 pieces on board and one pair of pawns has been solved (mastodon.online)
   18 points by baruchel 13 days ago | 2 comments
8. Analyzing 14M Chess Games (loganharless.com)
   6 points by myhandleisbest 17 days ago | discuss
9. The Most Chess-Obsessed Country in the World (reasonstobecheerful.world)
   5 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | discuss
10. The Second Half of the Chessboard (joshs.bearblog.dev)
    3 points by psychedare 6 days ago | 1 comments
11. Show HN: ChessGrammar – API that detects tactical patterns in chess positions
    3 points by stevejvv 3 days ago | discuss
12. Building Chess in about 350 lines of Clojure (www.sammystraus.com)
    3 points by sammy0910 9 days ago | discuss
13. Where Do Grandmasters Play Chess? – Lichess vs. Chess.com (lichess.org)
    3 points by us321 10 days ago | discuss
14. Hexapawn: Variant of Chess with 6 Pieces (en.wikipedia.org)
    3 points by icwtyjj 17 days ago | discuss
15. I reached 2000 on Chess.com by studying solely with my own app (chessvision.ai)
    3 points by pkacprzak 24 days ago | discuss
16. Is this the longest Chess game? (2020) [pdf] (tom7.org)
    3 points by vismit2000 24 days ago | discuss
17. Op.gg but for Chess (chess-pulse-neon.vercel.app)
    2 points by rayen_gh 7 days ago | 4 comments
18. Show HN: Raccoon.nvim – Replay PR commits like chess moves in Neovim (bajor.dev)
    2 points by bajor 7 days ago | 2 comments
19. Show HN: A 3D chessboard sandbox with optional WebGPU path tracing (chessboard3d.app)
    2 points by danjl 17 days ago | 2 comments
20. Show HN: I made a game to teach you to play blindfold chess (shahkur.specr.net)
    2 points by vunderba 24 days ago | 2 comments
21. Mor Chess 3: Rebuild Chess Positions with Daily Puzzles (morchess.com)
    2 points by heroku 5 days ago | 1 comments
22. Why elite chess ratings get stuck: A new model treats draws as data (phys.org)
    2 points by amichail 11 days ago | discuss
23. The longest possible chess game, and bounds on the number of possible games (wismuth.com)
    2 points by alexmolas 19 days ago | discuss
24. Show HN: Libpgn – .pgn (chess game records) parser, 2 years later (github.com)
    2 points by fwttnnn 28 days ago | discuss
25. Show HN: Hexpiece – a daily chess coverage puzzle (hexpiece.com)
    2 points by tothemoon 29 days ago | discuss
26. Show HN: Pawno, multiplayer chess in your terminal (www.playpawno.com)
    1 points by philbo 18 days ago | 1 comments
27. Show HN: Chess.biz – pay to play top rated chess players (chess.biz)
    1 points by ca98am79 20 days ago | 1 comments
28. Chess OCR: End-to-end ML pipeline running in the browser (sbondaryev.dev)
    1 points by sbondaryev 24 days ago | 1 comments
29. Hacked my chess ELO ranking as a beginner, went from 0-700 in 12 sessions
    1 points by smanna92 about 13 hours ago | discuss
30. Chess engine, pt. 3: Elo, and rigorous SPRT testing (www.dogeystamp.com)
    1 points by luu about 22 hours ago | discuss