85 points

An online chess with fog of war so you can only see adjacent tiles would be pretty hilarious. Could really turn an end game king chase into a “battleship” esque fiasco.

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66 points

That exists. On chess.com the variant is simply called “Fog of War”.

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20 points

I never knew! I’ll have to give it a try. Thanks!

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7 points

I like stratego because you get to hide the identity of your pieces

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51 points

Huh, chatgpt seems to do this for all games

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23 points

Google Gemini says it’s cheating too

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33 points

I was able to convince it otherwise and then beat it at chess in 1 move. I don’t think we have to worry about AI taking over any time soon…

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15 points

This is amazing comedy, if it wasn’t so sad. I almost feel bad for the confidently incorrect infantilized LLM.

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13 points

Unless it’s already to the point that it’s super advanced, and it was intentionally playing dumb to lull you into a false sense of security /s

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6 points

it gives you information that your opponent doesn’t have, which is an unfair advantage

cheating against someone who doesn’t even know where their own pieces are smh

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10 points

So does Meta’s AI.

I also tried Microsoft’s Copilot, and surprisingly it gave me an accurate answer about checkers even after I asked a few different ways:

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13 points

Monopoly

Based on fairness

Too bad it’s AI and unable to enjoy the irony lmao

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7 points

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6 points

4o says it’s not cheating in chess.

4o mini says it is.

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3 points

My local Qwen instance did not care, lol. But that’s not surprising.

The stock instruct model might, though.

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30 points

The only fair way to play

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5 points

do we need to create a TheChessBoardIsWrong community here?

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27 points

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8 points

Pretty sure that game is called stratego

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