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30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World
Tom Scott-style absurdist tour by Tom7 of SIGBOVIK chess projects: a tournament of 30 weird chess algorithms used to rate a color- and piece-blind chess program. Topics include mirrors, arithmetic encoding, perverted game tree search and a diluted Stockfish.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters call it a must-watch for its deadpan, absurdly elaborate engineering and cite it for ideas like diluting strong engines with random moves.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- suckerpinch
- Topic
- weird chess algorithms
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 8
- HN mentions in dataset
- 13
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Tom7 is brilliant for anyone that hasn't seen him before. His Reverse Emulation video ( [LINK] ) and Weird Chess Algorithms ( [VIDEO] ) are a must watch. His dead pan delivery coupled with the ridiculous amount of effort he puts into things that don't …
GuestHNUser on Hacker News · 2022-04
In Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need [video]Tom7 made a video also: [VIDEO] If you haven’t seen them his other videos are well worth watching as well.
symmetricsaurus on Hacker News · 2019-07
In Survival in chessland [pdf]Suckerpinch (Tom) recently had a video[1] about predicting the position of the oponents pieces from knowning just white. I don't think he's aware of this. Great video anyway. He trained an NN to predict the pieces and then used Stockfish on the resulting position. [1] …
onnodigcomplex on Hacker News · 2019-07
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