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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

Start with the latest. Scroll back through time, or zoom in for more.

Year by yearUp to 5 stories per year
2026428 stories
Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap↗ kedglobal.com · HN · 187 comments · 467 points · Sep 03, 2026
Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike↗ princechazz.com · HN · 149 comments · 433 points · Jun 21, 2026
1D Chess↗ rowan441.github.io · HN · 178 comments · 1001 points · Apr 10, 2026
Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?↗ hormuz.pythonic.ninja · HN · 452 comments · 662 points · Mar 22, 2026
Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship↗ fide.com · HN · 270 comments · 360 points · Feb 15, 2026
2025480 stories
Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died↗ old.reddit.com · HN · 151 comments · 431 points · Oct 20, 2025
Learn to play Go↗ online-go.com · HN · 153 comments · 403 points · Sep 27, 2025
No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves↗ lichess.org · HN · 181 comments · 365 points · Sep 26, 2025
Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app↗ offchess.com · HN · 169 comments · 369 points · Jul 08, 2025
A minimax chess engine in regular expressions↗ nicholas.carlini.com · HN · 97 comments · 557 points · Jan 07, 2025
2024429 stories
Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history↗ lichess.org · HN · 464 comments · 1118 points · Dec 12, 2024
OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now↗ dynomight.net · HN · 460 comments · 524 points · Nov 21, 2024
Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess↗ dynomight.substack.com · HN · 474 comments · 696 points · Nov 14, 2024
Static Chess↗ val.town · HN · 114 comments · 501 points · May 13, 2024
I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions↗ twitter.com · HN · 254 comments · 774 points · Jan 25, 2024
2023478 stories
Counterfactual Regret Minimisation or How I won any money in Poker?↗ rnikhil.com · HN · 26 comments · 117 points · Dec 31, 2023
Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them↗ generals.io · HN · 74 comments · 318 points · Dec 24, 2023
Atari 2600 Video Chess disassembled and commented↗ nanochess.org · HN · 0 comments · 35 points · Jun 22, 2023
Deck.of.cards↗ deck.of.cards · HN · 5 comments · 32 points · Apr 11, 2023
ChatGPT's Chess Elo is 1400↗ dkb.blog · HN · 120 comments · 86 points · Mar 17, 2023
2022531 stories
ButtFish – Transmit Morse Code of chess moves to your butt↗ github.com · HN · 173 comments · 713 points · Sep 28, 2022
Dear Chess World↗ twitter.com · HN · 1045 comments · 698 points · Sep 26, 2022
Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes↗ incoherency.co.uk · HN · 254 comments · 519 points · Sep 05, 2022
Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title↗ chess24.com · HN · 443 comments · 872 points · Jul 20, 2022
Lichess: The free and open source chess server↗ github.com · HN · 83 comments · 466 points · Jul 10, 2022
2021380 stories
Chess.com vs. Lichess↗ siddhesh.substack.com · HN · 215 comments · 365 points · Dec 15, 2021
Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves↗ chrisbutner.github.io · HN · 88 comments · 504 points · Oct 05, 2021
Stockfish 14↗ stockfishchess.org · HN · 196 comments · 440 points · Jul 04, 2021
Positions chess engines don't understand↗ chess.com · HN · 193 comments · 407 points · May 17, 2021
Why Lichess will always be free↗ lichess.org · HN · 446 comments · 1524 points · Apr 23, 2021
2020412 stories
Chess tactics explained↗ chesstactics.org · HN · 264 comments · 583 points · Nov 28, 2020
On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years↗ jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com · HN · 333 comments · 556 points · Nov 16, 2020
A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess↗ wired.com · HN · 165 comments · 474 points · Jun 16, 2020
To get good, go after the metagame↗ commoncog.com · HN · 296 comments · 726 points · Feb 25, 2020
A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidden code↗ theregister.co.uk · HN · 182 comments · 324 points · Jan 23, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Brood War Bench↗ bw.swerdlow.dev · HN · 156 comments · 346 points · Sep 19, 2026
Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap↗ kedglobal.com · HN · 187 comments · 467 points · Sep 03, 2026
Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games↗ github.com · HN · 56 comments · 75 points · Sep 26, 2026
Stockfish 19↗ stockfishchess.org · HN · 169 comments · 279 points · Sep 07, 2026
LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest↗ github.com · HN · 58 comments · 108 points · Sep 10, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap↗ kedglobal.com · HN · 187 comments · 467 points · Sep 03, 2026
Brood War Bench↗ bw.swerdlow.dev · HN · 156 comments · 346 points · Sep 19, 2026
Stockfish 19↗ stockfishchess.org · HN · 169 comments · 279 points · Sep 07, 2026
LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest↗ github.com · HN · 58 comments · 108 points · Sep 10, 2026
Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games↗ github.com · HN · 56 comments · 75 points · Sep 26, 2026
Chess Atlas↗ chess-timeline.vercel.app · HN · 16 comments · 39 points · Sep 19, 2026
I asked astra to make playable 4D chess↗ 4d-chess.pages.dev · HN · 43 comments · 37 points · Sep 06, 2026
Show HN: Blunderbase: A Personal Chess Database↗ github.com · HN · 0 comments · 8 points · Sep 06, 2026
Show HN: I analysed 169,123 Chess Olympiad moves and gave out 132 silly awards↗ olympiadstats.fun · HN · 0 comments · 4 points · Sep 21, 2026
Tabasa – A blindfold chess tactics trainer↗ tabasa.app · HN · 1 comments · 4 points · Sep 17, 2026

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