My Experiments

With Chess

It always starts with " What If "

2010 - Art Exhibitions along Staircases

2017 - halfchess.com

2015 - Magic Bus

Life outside and Life inside school

The answer is chess

Principles of gamification

Tech - stack

• NodeJS
• Mongodb
• Google cloud
• Firebase

• ReactJs
• Cordova
• P4wn chess engine

• React Native

How does a chess engine work?

Simplest chess engine in the world - p4wn

https://github.com/douglasbagnall/p4wn

Step 1

• Get All Moves - Generate list of next possible states
  • Each board state is represented in a memory efficient manner known as FEN

Step 2

• Score All Moves - Create a score for each of the board states
  • A checkmate is -9999
  • A piece won is +1 or +2 or +8 for Queen

Loop

Iterate between the two

Keep pushing in a queue

The Experiments

Re-imagining halfchess chess for blind

Chess volunteering

Squat Chess

Naval Saini

(New Delhi, India)

• email: navalnovel@gmail.com
• game: Halfchess.com

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