ChessCoach
Games
chess engine
SHOW HN2021
506points
89comments
#43of 2,533 in 2021
Top 2%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
10 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 6 critical, out of 39 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 7 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Commentary is impressive and novel
From 3 comments
This is a really amazing project. I hadn't though of coaching as a space for NLP, and I'm unaware of any use of a neural net to accomplish this, although I did study some Expert…
SavantIdiot on HNVery cool - one bug, it seems to want to show line variations in the chat, but it only shows the last move, which is then linked to the actual move in the game. e.g. on move 22 I…
kthejoker2 on HNJust tried it out, really interesting to read post game: https://lichess.org/dKbbqymG/ I don't think this comment was accurate: > 23. c4: "White tries to get his pawns moving. I…
eeegnu on HN
Interesting idea for coaching and NLP
From 2 comments
This is a really amazing project. I hadn't though of coaching as a space for NLP, and I'm unaware of any use of a neural net to accomplish this, although I did study some Expert…
SavantIdiot on HNVery cool project. I'm currently reading The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian on AI (very well written and easy to read), and also (very slowly) My Great Predecessors, Vol 1…
sixstringtheory on HN
Objections
Commentary sometimes inaccurate or nonsensical
From 2 comments
Just tried it out, really interesting to read post game: https://lichess.org/dKbbqymG/ I don't think this comment was accurate: > 23. c4: "White tries to get his pawns moving. I…
eeegnu on HNI look forward to reading things like “a classic Boris move” or Fisher or any of the great chessmasters.
egberts1 on HN
Masculine pronouns used throughout commentary
From 1 comment
Remarkably cool. My only bit of feedback is that it's unfortunate so much of the commentary uses masculine pronouns (I found it distracting). Is that just a consequence of the…
prezjordan on HN
Challenge time control restrictions
From 1 comment
If I click on "Challenge", and set up a game with unlimited time control (or correspondence), the challenge is declined with: > This time control is too fast for me, please…
EddieLomax on HN
Requests
Hosted easy-to-use version
From 1 comment
Amazing, incredible idea. Run with it for a bit. Setup a hosted, super easy to use version, that's billed ultimately at cost plus but in an easy to understand way (maybe # of…
zeptonix on HN
Link all moves in commentary
From 2 comments
Just tried it out, really interesting to read post game: https://lichess.org/dKbbqymG/ I don't think this comment was accurate: > 23. c4: "White tries to get his pawns moving. I…
eeegnu on HNVery cool - one bug, it seems to want to show line variations in the chat, but it only shows the last move, which is then linked to the actual move in the game. e.g. on move 22 I…
kthejoker2 on HN
Questions
Is the commentary decoder inspecting the engine network?
From 1 comment
Very cool project. I'm currently reading The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian on AI (very well written and easy to read), and also (very slowly) My Great Predecessors, Vol 1…
sixstringtheory on HN
Is the masculine pronoun bias from training data?
From 1 comment
Remarkably cool. My only bit of feedback is that it's unfortunate so much of the commentary uses masculine pronouns (I found it distracting). Is that just a consequence of the…
prezjordan on HN
Alternatives named
Stockfish
From 2 comments
This took about a year and a half – a little over a year coding in between experiments and training. It's a chess engine with a primary neural network just like AlphaZero or…
cbutner on HNIt loses some games to Stockfish 13 and 14, and Lc0 - rarely at slow time control, and more often at blitz and bullet (actually, it has losses all the way down to Stockfish 9 in…
cbutner on HN
Leela Chess Zero
From 1 comment
This took about a year and a half – a little over a year coding in between experiments and training. It's a chess engine with a primary neural network just like AlphaZero or…
cbutner on HN