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1. 1AS
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2. 2AL
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   Hello HN, For a few months I'm been working on a fun side-project to port the (awesome) chessboardjs library to an easily reusable and embeddable web component. The quarantine has finally spurred me to put the finishing touches on it. https://justinfagnani.github.io/chessboard-element/ It works in plain HTML files just by writing an HTML tag: And it works in any framework because it's just an HTML element. Styling is encapsulated and customizable with CSS properties and parts: chess-board { --dark-color: darkmagenta; } /* Highlight the e2 square in red */…

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3. 3SC
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4. 4CE
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   We built ChessBoss at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon this week. It didn’t make the top 10 but I thought Hacker News might think it’s pretty cool. https://devpost.com/software/chess-boss There are these really cool smart chessboards that can suggest moves and track your games... but they’re $400 and weigh 19 pounds. And of course there are apps that can analyze games but tracking and inputting games by hand is a huge pain. Or fully-digital chess apps... but board games are way more fun in real life! We wondered: “why can’t you just do that in software and bring the best…

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5. 5
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6. 6
   Chess Scanner▲123

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7. 7OS
   Open-sourced my Java chess AI high school project▲51

   2013 · github.com

8. 8SG
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9. 9MW
   My weekend project - Chessboard picture recognition▲51

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10. 10MY
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11. 11
    Chess Tent▲91

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12. 12CB
    ChessMe board game 2nd Edition – chess without board▲21

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13. 133C
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14. 14PC
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    2017 · ba.net

15. 15PO
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    2021 · github.com

16. 16AS
    A site I made to train my chess visualization▲5

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17. 17ID
    I designed a printable parametric open source chess set▲7

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18. 18PC
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    2022 · observablehq.com

19. 19PC
    Printing Chess Boards in a Terminal▲7

    I'm doing some fun chess-related programing during my sabbatical, and taking the opportunity to dive down rabbit holes I'd avoid for in a work setting. Found out interesting stuff from old ANSI DEC escape sequences to sixel graphics that are useful today.

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20. 20AA
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21. 21AD
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22. 22EC
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23. 23CA
    Cel7 – a 60kb framework for making grid-based ASCII games▲10

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24. 24IB
    I built a tool to download your chess games▲6

    Hi HN, here is my humble weekend project. I couldn’t find any similar utilities online that would let me download all of my chess games, so I decided to make one. It’s definitely imperfect, so please let me know if you have any feedback!

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