davidlakata

The engine dislikes the King Gambit, which has a pretty lengthy history, dating back to the 1600s [1]. However, it's not played much anymore at very top levels, and much has been written about its weaknesses [2]. So in some sense, humans have been "trying" the King's Gambit for centuries and have only recently come to the conclusion that it's not optimal.

Many players enjoy using the opening simply because it leads to dangerous and exciting games, so it makes sense that Stockfish and other engines would prefer conservative opening lines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Gambit

[2] http://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/94/why-is-the-kings...

Use "universal" React to only write the frontend code once. The server renders the React app to HTML, and the client attaches the click handlers and other behavior.

Here's a good example: https://github.com/erikras/react-redux-universal-hot-example

Really great game!

I suppose the forms are vaguely reminiscent of Microsoft's rectangular, solid-colored forms

App Academy: http://www.appacademy.io/

It's still there: the red lines outline the lower left hand corner of the heatsink (the big metallic structure).

For fans of Jorge Luis Borges, he has a short story that covers similar thematic ground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertiu....