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Analog Chess

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Human Chess is a chess variant where playing the top engine move is forbidden

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How to build a chess engine

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Can you be sure to clear a line at Tetris?

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Battleship

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Hex: A Strategy Guide

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How to Calculate the Trappiest Openings in Chess Using Stats

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Micro-Max, a 133-line Chess Source

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The number of legal chess positions estimated at 4.5x10^44 – proof games wanted

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The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes (2018)

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Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece

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The Kilobyte’s Gambit

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Building My Own Chess Engine

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A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)

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1M Cell Minesweeper

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Show HN: Play Battleships on PostgreSQL

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Pure Skill Minesweeper

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What is 5D chess?

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Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable?

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Questions I would ask God about the game of Go

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Kaboom: an unusual Minesweeper

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A history of Tetris randomizers (2018)

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Aggressive Chess Openings (2012)

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Monte Carlo instead of Alpha-Beta for chess programs?

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Chess Steganography

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Tetris

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Chess World Championship: Stockfish live-analyzing game 7

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TicTacToe in SQL (Postgres)

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The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes

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Solving Minesweeper and making it better (2015)

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The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States by Exhaustive Enumeration

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The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States with Combinatorics

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Is there a winning strategy in Tetris?

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Paxos in 25 Lines

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Minesweeper: Advanced Tactics (2005)

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Finding surprising moves in chess games

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A way to deal with enormous branching factors in strategy games

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Number of legal Go positions computed

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Tic Tac Toe: Understanding The Minimax Algorithm (2013)

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Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go

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Texas Hold'em Hand Strength, Visualized

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When Grandmasters Blunder: Even the best make mistakes

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Termtris: A Game Like Tetris in Ten Functions

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2048 implemented in 487 bytes of C

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8402: 2048 from the other side

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2048 Numberwang

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Probabilities in the Game of Monopoly

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Tetris Printer Algorithm

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The Mathematics Behind xkcd: A Conversation with Randall Munroe

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Singularity Chess

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The Linear Theory of Battleship

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Chess@home: Building the largest Chess AI ever (in JavaScript)

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Solving Tetris in C

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133-line chess engine with annotated source

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Google AI Challenge Winner Post-Mortem

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Texas Hold'em Experiment

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Ice cold decks (dealer wins no matter how the deck is cut)

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Show HN: Play a pen-and-paper game that is almost unknown in the US and Europe

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Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits

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Compressing chess moves for fun and profit

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Static Chess

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Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe

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Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs

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Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares

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Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checker highlights mistakes

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Show HN: Using SQL's Turing completeness to build Tetris

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