An intricate and lengthy account of several different computer chess topics from my SIGBOVIK 2019 papers. We conduct a tournament of fools with a pile of different weird chess algorithms, ostensibly to quantify how well my other weird program to play color- and piece-blind chess performs. On the way we «learn» about mirrors, arithmetic encoding, perversions of game tree search, spicy oils, and hats.
Papers:
No animals nor automata were harmed in the filming.
1:49 what code is that (bottom left)
whether it be bad chess, anarchy chess, orFPS chess, it is a game for all ages
Looked up the wiki for Boltzmann brain, spent holiday there and forgot I was watching a video
False King: Choose a single piece at random, then have that piece play via stockfish or something, and all the other pieces of that color want to be as close to that piece as possible. When it dies, choose another piece and repeat.
A strategy that tries to linearly sort the pieces by height along the vertical or horizontal dimensions
The Chessmaster played old man Peabody in Back to the Future
"condolences and congratulations if you made through the whole [video]"
dude I am on my 5th watch of this video
You could totally call the blind spycheck the paranoid king
Honestly, love this and love your work. I've been watching since your NES Lexicographic Ordering series.
I don't know if you've seen the post on AnarchyChess, but a user there pit Stockfish against ChatGPT. It's absolutely hilarious seeing ChatGPT approximate legal moves. Sourcing moves from a language model could be another terrible chess strategy.
This is great! The word nerd in me wonders how this kind of "weird algorithms" competition would work in Scrabble. How does "prefers to play animal names" fare against "prefers to play words Obama said in office"?
Love what you share; Acronymy has been fun.