Classical chess ranks 562nd of 960 starting positions after 460,800 games(chess960v2.com)
3 pointsby lavren19742 hours ago11 comments
  • conception2 hours ago
    I don’t even know what to do about LLM authored articles. Do the prompt engineers hitting enter understand it’s difficult to read and off putting? Could HN use a secondary AI tag/flag?

    Sadly I think it’ll be just a dead, poorly written internet moving forward.

    Maybe the article is interesting. I don’t know. It’s exhausting to read.

    • glimshe25 minutes ago
      I agree but I'm not sure if I'm biased given the nonstop negative comments about AI texts, on top of every text having the same style (which would be equivalent to a human writing every page on the Internet).

      Would we think this was poorly written if we read just this one text 20 years ago? I don't know the answer.

    • evmar2 hours ago
      Totally agree. I saw the idea of “Internet Kessler syndrome” recently and I can’t stop thinking about how it captures this.
  • fwlr2 hours ago
    If you want to read something interesting and edifying about chess960, the classical starting position, and other interesting starting positions, might I recommend instead this wonderful paper? https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14319
  • pton_xd2 hours ago
    Interesting topic but they couldn't be bothered to spend time writing about it, shame.
  • robrenaud2 hours ago
    If black and white had different permutations of the back row, you could find more balanced starting positions. Adopt more flexible starting conditions in the computer chess age.
  • mad442 hours ago
    AI written, and makes no sense it how the piece flows.
    • mattbruv2 hours ago
      Yep, it was really hard to get my brain to focus on what was actually trying to be conveyed, and I'm a 2000 rated chess player
    • mad442 hours ago
      [flagged]
  • benzible2 hours ago
    "The caveats, which are the honest place to start" UGH
  • lavren19742 hours ago
    Stockfish 15.1
  • StableAlkyne2 hours ago
    > Then every setup plays against every other one and earns an honest score.

    ...as opposed to a dishonest score?

  • mattbruv2 hours ago
    Claude slop
  • 2 hours ago
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  • lavren1974an hour ago
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