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Two years ago I sat down to build a chess engine for my kids' Christmas present. Wanted it to play badly enough to be beatable but not randomly bad: different styles so they could choose what to face. While building…

I built Pioneer 2, a retro-style chess computer inspired by 1980s dedicated chess machines. It runs a personality-based chess engine and is playable directly in the browser. The goal was to recreate the feeling of old…