PacoPlay Year in Review 2023
Looking Back at the Games we Played in 2023
Jan 1, 20242 min read
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Paco Ŝako Mate in 2
Improving Post Game Analysis for Paco Ŝako
Nov 4, 20239 min read
Postmortem on PacoPlay crash 2023-01-18
On January 18th, 2023, at 19:00 the server for PacoPlay broke and you were no longer able to play. The last game was https://pacoplay.com/game/6558 played between Yorick and Raimond. No moves were possible anymore and the timer broke. Yorick quickly ...
Jan 18, 20233 min read
Speeding up Ŝako Detection with Amazons
A fast way to search a graph: Don't search it.
Dec 12, 20224 min read
Optimizing Paco Ŝako with Flamegraphs
We'll use flamegraphs together with the regression test suite we build in the last article to find bottlenecks in my implementation of the Paco Ŝako game that is powering pacoplay.com. Paco Ŝako is a chess variant where you can't kill any pieces. Eve...
Jul 25, 20226 min read
Snapshot Testing the Paco Ŝako Game
Paco Ŝako is a chess variant where you can't kill any pieces. It's a growing mess of a dance floor where the goal is to dance with the opponents king. And I wrote an implementation of it. It's not a great implementation, mind you. I have no idea how ...
Jul 18, 20225 min read