[pavel_lishin]

(Also submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43822992)

Neat, though I expected every individual board to have "turns" - I didn't expect that I could just pick a random board, liberate the black queen, and have her clean up every single white piece on the board without my "opponent" getting to do anything in return.

[eieio]

oh huh, I'm not sure why this one made it to the front page and not the link to my site!

Anyway, yeah, I guess I could have gone with turns here but I thought that building a more realtime MMO thing where pieces could cross boards would be a little more interesting and novel. I also didn't feel like a version of this that was turn based would ever complete.

certainly a queen can go wipe out a whole board, but the game tries to place you next to other active players when you join, which hopefully promotes some interesting counterplay to that. And I think playing chess in realtime like this against someone is pretty fun. But I understand why it might not be for everyone!

[chunkles]

Individuals here on hacker news tend to gravitate towards blog posts about games rather than links to actual games, generally. Not a hard fast rule, but it's what I've observed over the years.

[eieio]

I have had some success on Hacker News with similar games before[1]! But I'll certainly do a proper writeup of the tech behind this one because I think it's pretty neat.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40800869 for example

[stevage]

As I get older, I find I'm often more interested in reading about things than trying the thing myself. I often go straight to the comments about articles rather than even reading them.

[dang]

As you wish! We've swapped out the link from https://eieio.games/blog/one-million-chessboards/ to your site. But I also put the blog link in the top text, so hopefully readers will look at both.

(Oh and I still owe you an email. I haven't forgotten!)

[eieio]

Ah thank you dang! I meant to submit a Show HN for this one with a little context/a few technical details, but someone beat me to submitting the link. So this is perfect :)

(and thanks, I'm in no rush!!)

[JusticeJuice]

I'd love to know what individual piece has moved the furthest from it's starting point.

[tantalor]

Agreed. It doesn't make sense. The game here is not to play chess, it is to find a board that has no other player and wipe them out as fast as possible.

[krupan]

Or it's just to have fun and create stuff. Already someone made board full of rooks and called it Rooklyn, and another person made a board full of queens and called it Queens

[NooneAtAll3]

the game here is to have fun :)

get the most kills, make a cool shape

or take a piece veeeeery far away from home