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jrudesillon Show HN: Chess2 – Play live online chess against a friend, or a chess engine

Thanks a lot. Stockfish is used for openings and playing in general. I guess in the future it would be a good idea to give change the engine parameters slightly for each game. It is very configurable. Glad you enjoyed it

jrudesillon Show HN: Chess2 – Play live online chess against a friend, or a chess engine

Thanks John!

jrudesillon Show HN: Chess2 – Play live online chess against a friend, or a chess engine

Yes web workers are cool. Sadly its only single threaded. If I'm not mistaken the newer version of the engine can run multithreaded but only on super modern browsers. This slightly older version ensures more compatibility

jrudesillon Show HN: Chess2 – Play live online chess against a friend, or a chess engine

The engine is a WASM implementation of the stockfish 11 engine. https://github.com/nmrugg/stockfish.js

jrudesillon Show HN: Chess2 – Play live online chess against a friend, or a chess engine

I am currently in the market for dev roles! I am completely self taught and this is a project that shows off what I am capable of. Its the first version so there will be issues here and there.

jrudesillon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023)

Location: Twin Cities, MN

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Anywhere in US or Europe

Technologies: React / Next.js, Redux, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, Express, Websockets (socket.io), Tailwind, Bulma, C#

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IHA1-ep9ij5yr4h9IUvVS2D-...

Email: joshrudesill@gmail.com

Personal Site: https://jrudesill.dev

I am a completely self taught web dev and I left my job in august to pursue this career full time. I've learned a bit of everything but focus on building apps with react and node backends. I am currently working on an app that to play live chess using websockets and express. I plan on adding variations of the game in the future.