[HN Gopher] Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability
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       Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability
        
       Author : jxmorris12
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2023-08-30 19:44 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (samiramly.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (samiramly.com)
        
       | bryanlanders wrote:
       | Sami is brilliant. He demoed Echo Chess at a recent San Diego
       | engineer event and everyone was blown away and asking tons of
       | questions. A lot of love and intelligence went into building this
       | game.
        
         | ramly wrote:
         | thank you for the support, glad you're enjoying echo chess.
         | it's been a ton of fun building a chess variant with ML. happy
         | to answer any questions.
        
       | ramly wrote:
       | Hey HN! I'm sami, the creator of echo chess. This is the true
       | story of diving way too deep into a rabbit hole of chess, ML, and
       | puzzle design. Hope you enjoy the read.
       | 
       | Originally built this chess variant as a fun hack but it really
       | escalated since then. It's a single-player puzzle game. You're
       | playing white, there's no opponent, and you need to clear the
       | board to win. Every time you capture a piece, you become the
       | 'echo' of that piece.
       | 
       | There's also an 'endless' mode with infinite levels generated in
       | real time and validated by ML to ensure solvability. Took forever
       | to make it work but it now has 99% accuracy. You can play the
       | 'classic' mode here: https://echochess.com/ and endless here:
       | https://echochess.com/?endless
       | 
       | Happy to answer any questions.
        
         | dang wrote:
         | You're welcome here and it looks like a good submission and a
         | great game! but this post also got a ton of bogus upvotes and
         | quite a few bogus comments. Those things are quite against HN's
         | rules - this is in both the site guidelines
         | (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and FAQ
         | (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), and we ban
         | accounts that do it (I've banned 5 of them so far.)
         | 
         | Please make sure that you and/or your friends don't do this on
         | HN in the future! The community here is hypervigilant about
         | this kind of thing and will use unkind words like
         | 'astroturfing' and 'spamming' and email us complaints when they
         | see it.
        
           | ramly wrote:
           | Thank you so much for bringing this up! Still new to the
           | community (long time lurker, first time commenter). I'm very
           | thankful for your input and I'm glad you're enjoying the
           | submission and the game :)
           | 
           | From my understanding, the earlier comments on this post were
           | all existing players - but I may be mistaken. In any case,
           | all duly noted for us new posters. Thank you for your help in
           | keeping the HN community so awesome!
        
         | beefman wrote:
         | Are you aware of Solitaire Chess?
         | 
         | https://www.thinkfun.com/products/brain-fitness-solitaire-ch...
        
       | rariss wrote:
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       | jxmorris12 wrote:
       | Got addicted to this game over the summer. Fun twist on chess
       | puzzles and the upper levels get increasingly sophisticated. I
       | think I got stuck on Level 13.
        
       | rraad wrote:
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       | sambernstein wrote:
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       | goldenberry wrote:
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       | gmchad wrote:
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