Reviews for Chess Comp Stomp with Hacks

[timestrick]

fun :D

dtsudo responds:

Glad you had fun! =)

[ultimatum479]

in the final battle I hopped a rook over my pawn into the back rank and promoted it into a queen for a diagonal check, followed up with a super-knight move for another check, and finished by moving into the back rank again and promoting back into a rook

10/10 would cheat again

EDIT: btw, double-checked github after catching a bug, and yes, without super en passant you can't get enemy pawns that don't start on the normal rank

dtsudo responds:

Congrats on winning the final battle with your super rook, GM ultimatum479!

Thanks for playing :)

[hercoolass]

Hilarious game. AI is quite bad but still fun.

dtsudo responds:

Thanks for playing!

Yes, the AI isn't that great; it thinks about 2 to 4 plies (i.e. 1 to 2 full turns) ahead, depending on the complexity of the board and how much time it has to think. (For contrast, Stockfish, the world's most powerful chess engine, can compute 20 to 40 plies in a few seconds!)

[ArtWitchStudios]

Like the hacks!

dtsudo responds:

Thanks :)

[Magnus727]

Fun "chess" game.

If you are 1300 in normal chess like me, you will win this easily but still very fun to try. Have to watch out for accidental queen move like knight checkmate though.

On the AI, yeah it hangs knights and bishops for no reason (even without the hacks). The final AI blundered checkmate despite still having like 10 queens on (it moved the only queen defending it).

dtsudo responds:

Thanks for playing! :) Feedback regarding the difficulty is something that others have mentioned too. I have no doubt a 1300 will win easily though I also want to ensure weaker chess players can beat the game. I think adding difficulty options would be one way to improve the difficulty curve.

Yeah, the AI can do dumb things. I once watched it hang a rook, and then it hung a bishop while trying, unsuccessfully, to save its doomed rook (a manifestation of the "horizon effect" in chess AI).