The Kilobyte's Gambit

What it does

Can you beat a Chess computer written with 1KB of Javascript?

• HT
  Hacker Typer [joke]2011 · duiker101.tk · ▲160

  Ever wanted to type as fast as those amazing hackers in the movies? now you can! just write something. Yes, i was really bored. To change writing speed: javascript:writer.speed=10;

• JB
  JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle2014 · javascriptbattle.com · ▲137
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  ChessBoss – enhancing physical chessboards with computer vision2019 · devpost.com · ▲83

  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…

• SC
  Scannable Chess Scoresheets2019 · reinechess.com · ▲117
• 1K
  1 KB JavaScript library for building applications2017 · github.com · ▲116
• JA
  JSRobot – A platform game you play by coding in JavaScript2017 · github.com · ▲79

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