Ask HN: Play chess where both human players select from the top four AI moves?

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Of course, the four choices presented to each player would be in random order and hidden from the other player.

Note that if the AI is weak, this could result in a more balanced game between weaker and stronger human players.

Do you think this chess variant would be compelling?

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The other way around appeals to me: have an AI judge a move that I made, see using

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_tree_search

as an evaluation function, better yet it could critique me and help me learn to play better.

Compelling as a player or as a spectator?

As a player, it depends on how good the AI is at chess. If it’s better than me, I’ll have no idea what’s going on. If it’s worse than me, that’ll leave me feeling frustrated. If it’s as strong as me, what’s the point? So… it doesn’t sound compelling either way.

What about using a weak AI to allow a more fair game between weak and strong human players?

I’ll stick with lopsided time controls, or giving the weaker player a piece advantage.

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