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ah yes, that's a bit clearer now :) And I'm glad that I used to play starcraft before google decided to be involved.

> I tried the demo. The default player is too weak. It makes too many silly mistakes. The harder players is hard. I'll try again tomorrow.

Thank you for playing it. And that's great, that's more or less how I intended. I want players to start with a bit that isn't too intimidating, so that you can select a stronger one after if needed. And I'm glad that the stronger one gave you some challenge.

> The bishops that bounce against the walls when there is a corner with 3 squares in the border are weird

Currently, I define a diagonal as 2 tiles sharing a point and no edge. So by that definition, you will indeed see tiles on the edge which make up a diagonal. Definitely the type you can't see on a regular board. There could be an alternative definition where you need to have 2 other tiles that share edges with those first 2 tiles (as is the case almost everywhere inside the board), but I like to embrace the weirdness that this brings, so I keep the first one.

And yes, knights here are much harder to predict!

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Feature request: Play again in the same checkboard. I got a checboard with two wall that blockd my bishops and the computer got a regular grid. I want revenge!!!

Feature request?: Symetric maps (like in Starcraft 2).

Does the bot run in the server or in my computer?

Feature request?: The hard bot takes too long to play. Can it make a ping when it plays. Does chess.com make a sound, or they decided it's a bad idea?

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Thanks a lot for those feature requests, and most importantly for playing!

> Play again in the same checkboard

You can indeed get your revenge. When you start a new game, you can change several option. One of them is how the next board is selected. You can either:

- keep the same board - pick one from a curated list - or generate it randomly

By default, it is set on the 3rd option, but you then need to change it to the first one ("Same Board"), like in this video: https://imgur.com/a/sq8TDbx

> Symetric maps (like in Starcraft 2).

That's not possible at the moment, but someone else had the same request, so I'll have a think. I personally prefer boards that are very irregular and therefore asymmetric, but I appreciate it's subjective.

In the mean time, when you select a board the from the curated list, you can see 5 board types: "very irregular", "regular vs irregular", "almost regular", "regular" and "central pivot". This last one will have boards that are fairly symmetrical (but not completely).

> Does the bot run in the server or in my computer?

It runs on your computer. It's all javascript, running in workers. If the game has a decent success, I'd like to take the time to do a rewrite in a different language to get it in wasm, as it could run faster.

> Can it make a ping when it plays

You should hear the sound of the piece being moved, like in this video: https://imgur.com/a/XoWIJZb If you don't, the only reason I can think of is that the game audio has been turned off, via the button at the top right of the screen?

I'm not sure what chess.com does now, but I believe using a audio hint is really useful for exactly the reason you encountered. And it's even more needed when playing multiplayer without a timer, as your opponent could take even longer to play.