[HN Gopher] Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability ___________________________________________________________________ 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: | [flagged] | 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: | [flagged] | sambernstein wrote: | [flagged] | goldenberry wrote: | [flagged] | gmchad wrote: | [flagged] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-08-30 23:00 UTC)