Show HN: Retichess

spb 12 years ago |

I read that as "retchiness".

cperciva 12 years ago | |

Me too. I spent a while wondering if it was going to be a site ranking how horrible web designs are before I clicked through and realized my error.

adharmad 12 years ago | |

Richard Reti was a famous chess grandmaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_R%C3%A9ti

alexjeffrey 12 years ago |

Let's play!

http://www.retichess.com/play/NDUzOC45MDg3a2NNQlNN/30/0

peter_l_downs 12 years ago |

Just spent a couple minutes playing a game against myself – I won/lost! Looks great, really nice job :)

haberdasher 12 years ago |

Looks good! Lots of polish. I made this a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7206952

...using the same stack.

haberdasher 12 years ago | |

PS. You should escape the chat messages. I was able to inject javascript.

chbrown 12 years ago | | |

Could be part of the game. Bughouse = chess + chess, inb.tw = chess + XSS.

haberdasher 12 years ago | | |

Just to be clear, inb.tw has no XSS issues, retichess does.

gwintrob 12 years ago |

Looks great. Did you write the chess logic from scratch?

stepanbujnak 12 years ago | |

No, the application uses chess.js library found here: https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js

encoderer 12 years ago |

Both my opponent and I confused the King and Queen.

square1 12 years ago | |

This is the standard for digital representation, check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode

_xhok 12 years ago |

Really awesome, might start using this instead of lichess.

One thing stopping me is the chess pieces. They so fancy that they distract me during the game since I have to pay a little more attention to which pieces are which. Standard ones like on chess.com/lichess.org would be nice.

Matetricks 12 years ago |

Great app! Curious as to what the benefits are over Lichess.

Also, you might want to consider using chessboard.js: http://chessboardjs.com/

elwell 12 years ago |

This is really nice. Good performance and appearance.

Would be cool to have automatic matches with others, but simplicity is nice (and it might be hard to get critical mass).

mauz 12 years ago |

Really cool, makes me wanna get into chess

slig 12 years ago | |

Me too.

Does anyone have good, digitally available, books recommendations?

datacog 12 years ago |

Gets stuck on "Generating game link". Site overload ?

john_b 12 years ago | |

I had the same problem on 3 different browsers. I also tried to play the game alexjeffrey posted above [1] but the timer wouldn't work. I'm guessing the game was cancelled by a reload or browser close.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7757610