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PSPawan Sharmasharmapawan.hashnode.dev3d ago · 10 min read

Interaction to Next Paint Breakdown: Solving first move lag in BareBoard

Background So I was developing this dumb chess board which only contains presentation logic, emits event when a piece is touched and moved and doesn't have any move calculation/validation logic whatso

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ARAritro Royaritro.hashnode.devJun 23 · 22 min read

I Couldn't Overwhelm My Chess Server. I Could Only Overwhelm My Load Tester.

TL;DR Took a hobby Rust chess engine and turned it into a horizontally-scalable, fault-tolerant multiplayer server. The chess was never the hard part; where the game lives and what happens when a ser

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ASAkshansh Singhblog.akshanshsingh.comJun 9 · 8 min read

I Built My Own Chess Platform — Here's Everything That Went Wrong

Chess has been a part of my life for quite a time now. I'd used WebSockets before in a past Node.js/Express project, so the concept wasn't new to me. But as I've been transitioning into the Spring Boo

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ASAtharva Sen Baraiblog.rookduel.techMay 19 · 14 min read

Building RookDuel Avikal: From Chess Steganography to Post-Quantum Archival Security

Avikal did not begin as an archival security tool. It began with a question: can data be hidden inside chess? Today, RookDuel Avikal is an open-source archival security system built around the .avk fo

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AJAkshat Jainakshatjme.hashnode.devApr 9 · 5 min read

Why Chess Is Probably Impossible to Fully Solve (At Least for Now)

Chess is one of the most studied games in human history.Grandmasters have analyzed it for centuries, and modern computers can defeat the best human players. Yet despite all that progress, one simple question remains unanswered: What is the true outco...

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ASAnimesh Srivastavaaiunderthehood.hashnode.devApr 2 · 17 min read

ChatGPT Can Write a Chess Book But Can't Move a Pawn: The Embarrassing Truth About LLMs and Chess

Here's a wild fact: Chess.com's engine (powered by Stockfish) can defeat Gukesh who defeated Magnus Carlsen — arguably the greatest chess player alive — without breaking a sweat. GPT-5.5, one of the

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JSJ Shahshatranjlive.hashnode.devMar 13 · 14 min read

How I Use Chess to Think About System Design Interviews

Chess — a game with ancient strategic roots — and system design interviews share the same core failure mode: both punish players who calculate before they think. The moment I started treating system design like a chess game, clarifying position befor...

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JSJ Shahshatranjlive.hashnode.devMar 13 · 13 min read

The Deliberate Practice Method Chess Grandmasters Use, Applied to Coding

Most software engineers plateau. They write code every day, ship features, close tickets, and wonder why their skills feel stagnant after year three. The problem is not effort — it is the type of effort. Chess grandmasters solved this problem decades...

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SSSanjit Salujasanjitsaluja.comFeb 15 · 10 min read

How I Cut Page Load Time by 90%

I built Zugzwang, a browser-based chess puzzle app powered by Stockfish WASM. It worked, but the initial load was brutal—nearly 39 seconds on a throttled 4G connection before the board was even visibl

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IAIhechikara Abbafreecodecamp.orgFeb 16 · 21 min read

The Chess "Italian Game" Handbook: Traps for White

A chess game is usually divided into three phases: the opening, middlegame, and endgame. In the opening phase, each player develops and sets up their pieces. In the middlegame, they plan attacks, execute different tactics and strategies to gain an ad...

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Interaction to Next Paint Breakdown: Solving first move lag in BareBoard

I Couldn't Overwhelm My Chess Server. I Could Only Overwhelm My Load Tester.

I Built My Own Chess Platform — Here's Everything That Went Wrong

Building RookDuel Avikal: From Chess Steganography to Post-Quantum Archival Security

Why Chess Is Probably Impossible to Fully Solve (At Least for Now)

ChatGPT Can Write a Chess Book But Can't Move a Pawn: The Embarrassing Truth About LLMs and Chess

How I Use Chess to Think About System Design Interviews

The Deliberate Practice Method Chess Grandmasters Use, Applied to Coding

How I Cut Page Load Time by 90%

The Chess "Italian Game" Handbook: Traps for White