Visualizing Chess Games
Creative
chess visualization
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How HN took it
1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Design: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Novel and interesting view of territory control
From 1 comment
As a view of the territory control and piece advancement it is interesting, and certainly novel, but IMO the indicator of a really good visualization is how much information you…
kevindamm on HN
Nice work and cool idea
From 2 comments
Nice work! It would be cool if you could click on a circle to see a panel with all pieces moved onto that circle in chronological order, and then click on a piece to see it's…
Hammershaft on HNReally cool! Unfortunately, I don't play chess so can't comment on it. I used to watch StarCraft 2 (an RTS game) matches a lot and a recurring theme of viewership is that there's…
Jianghong94 on HN
Objections
Hard to scan quickly; overlapping lines make pieces and movement ambiguous
From 1 comment
As a view of the territory control and piece advancement it is interesting, and certainly novel, but IMO the indicator of a really good visualization is how much information you…
kevindamm on HN
Long and short games fit the same space, cluttering the image
From 1 comment
As a view of the territory control and piece advancement it is interesting, and certainly novel, but IMO the indicator of a really good visualization is how much information you…
kevindamm on HN
Requests
Show multiple games from one player as an opening tree to reveal habits
From 2 comments
Would be cool to see this over multiple games opening tree style so you can start to see tendancies.
CSMastermind on HNFollow-up thought, I wonder if this approach could be applied to multiple games from the same player in a way that draws out certain habits. Like, if a player is very fond of a…
kevindamm on HN
Click interactions to see pieces landing on a circle and their routes
From 1 comment
Nice work! It would be cool if you could click on a circle to see a panel with all pieces moved onto that circle in chronological order, and then click on a piece to see it's…
Hammershaft on HN
Distinguish circles by final-position piece or traffic
From 1 comment
Follow-up thought, I wonder if this approach could be applied to multiple games from the same player in a way that draws out certain habits. Like, if a player is very fond of a…
kevindamm on HN
Heat layer showing positions a player could reach
From 1 comment
As a view of the territory control and piece advancement it is interesting, and certainly novel, but IMO the indicator of a really good visualization is how much information you…
kevindamm on HN
Questions
How can this information be used?
From 1 comment
looks cool, how can I use this information?
fogx on HN
Alternatives named
Structural relationship explorer by JKU Labs for chess match embeddings
From 1 comment
You may be interested in the structural relationship explorer by JKU Labs [0], which condenses hundreds of chess matches in a lower-dimensional space, revealing multiple win/loss…
dleeftink on HN