RKRolf Kreibauminblog.kreibaum.dev·Jan 1, 2024 · 2 min readPacoPlay Year in Review 2023In 2023 we played a total of 7294 games. As a community, we played every day except for Thursday the 23nd November of 2023. Overall, we played about twice as many games as last year. YearGames Played 2020138 20211831 20223126 20237294 For...00
RKRolf Kreibauminblog.kreibaum.dev·Nov 4, 2023 · 9 min readPaco Ŝako Mate in 2Paco Ŝako is a chess variant where you can't kill any pieces. On the crowded board, you can't see the end coming. Or can you? To help players review their games, the Paco Play website has provided replay analysis for a while now. It tells you which m...00
RKRolf Kreibauminblog.kreibaum.dev·Jan 18, 2023 · 3 min readPostmortem on PacoPlay crash 2023-01-18On January 18th, 2023, at 19:00 the server for PacoPlay broke and you were no longer able to play. The last game was https://pacoplay.com/game/6558 played between Yorick and Raimond. No moves were possible anymore and the timer broke. Yorick quickly ...00
RKRolf Kreibauminblog.kreibaum.dev·Dec 12, 2022 · 4 min readSpeeding up Ŝako Detection with AmazonsPaco Ŝako is a chess variant where figuring out if you are actually in check (or Ŝako as we call it) is pretty tricky. Pieces can't just move directly but can also free other pieces from unions which then starts a chain reaction. So to figure out if...00
RKRolf Kreibauminblog.kreibaum.dev·Jul 25, 2022 · 6 min readOptimizing Paco Ŝako with FlamegraphsWe'll use flamegraphs together with the regression test suite we build in the last article to find bottlenecks in my implementation of the Paco Ŝako game that is powering pacoplay.com. Paco Ŝako is a chess variant where you can't kill any pieces. Eve...00
