Tdxt

Re:Show HN: Can a person's chess mind outlive them? An attempt with 41... on Friday May 01, 2026 @12:09PM (#47976427)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ydNWKr870htOHI5pP2HogMqIKo... well set up some tournaments then this is the beta windows version

Re:Show HN: Can a person's chess mind outlive them? An attempt with 41... on Friday May 01, 2026 @01:06AM (#47971474)

Well if I find the right Partner, I ll do my best to create a successor :) and the playchessgate personalities can find a home there.

Re:Show HN: Can a person's chess mind outlive them? An attempt with 41... on Thursday April 30, 2026 @01:23PM (#47965595)

Yes i did, :) that was a wonderful program, never quite understood why they stopped developing. The nice thing about the chessgate personalities ist you can adapt the playing strength to your level but the style remains consistent.

Show HN: Can a person's chess mind outlive them? An attempt with 41 masters

Posted by Tdxt on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:26AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://playchessgate.com/

Two years ago I sat down to build a chess engine for my kids' Christmas present. Wanted it to play badly enough to be beatable but not randomly bad: different styles so they could choose what to face.While building those styles I noticed the choices started looking like actual historical players' tendencies. Went looking. Turns out: given enough games from one person, you can extract enough of...

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Re:Show HN: Pioneer 2 – a retro Soviet chess computer playing online on Monday March 09, 2026 @07:22AM (#47307603)

You're right to point that out. I misspoke in the description. The repository currently only contains the landing page and project files. The chess engine itself isn't open source at the moment. Thanks for catching that.

Show HN: Pioneer 2 – a retro Soviet chess computer playing online

Posted by Tdxt on Sunday March 08, 2026 @07:41PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://play.pioneer2chess.com/

I built Pioneer 2, a retro-style chess computer inspired by 1980s dedicated chess machines.It runs a personality-based chess engine and is playable directly in the browser.The goal was to recreate the feeling of old chess computers while running modern engine logic underneath.You can try it here: https://play.pioneer2chess.comThe project is open...

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