PicoLisp Chess

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68 points·simonpure··12 comments

PicoLisp is such a nice concept. Really envy the creator for being able to deliver projects fully on his own stack.

HN loves chess recently. I've also gotten (casually) back into it. I wonder if this is all because of the queen's gambit

This remark comes up in every chess thread

Then this gets pointed out: online chess was already seeing a spike due to the pandemic. But yes

It's a combination of The Queens Gambit making chess more popular to the general public and PogChamps making chess more popular with gamers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PogChamps

and Twitch and Youtube generally making the hobby more inviting by providing a way to participate casually. Plus a lot of other streamers dip into chess occasionally

I think the spike in interest is limited to the western countries, in other (comunist/socialist..) chess is teached at the schools, played in parks, broadcasted by pubblic television weekly

My be also the rise of lichess as an effortless and polished way get a match anywhere, anytime.

If PicoLisp is too heavy for you, there's always femtolisp[1]. Anybody up for a challenge claim attolisp? ;)

[1] https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp

https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp

Bulb[0] fits in 4kb of RAM on the omnipresent SCHIP virtual machine. The complete program is under 3.5kb, and of that, 1kb is the workspace. The nature of the platform also means the program must include its own font and terminal IO routines:

[0] https://internet-janitor.itch.io/bulb

I get the error "simul -- Bad symbol namespace".

You need pil21.

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