January 17th, 2025 ― Veney has been dormant for a while. In my lackadaisical, mixed approach to spitballing 1. improvements on the “main” game, 2. variant rules, and 3. experimental proof-of-concept twists on basic chess concepts toward my sorta overall thesis, I’ve ended up with an unwieldy, disorganized list of crazy ideas. It’s been over a year since the last veney update, and I have a blog now, so I figured why not dump ’em here? Enjoy!
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The day before, there had been an update to the knowledgebase. A redundant frontal core, extracted and trained separately for weeks on new data from a rediscovered population, was reconnected with the primary. Integration continued through the night. When the system was back online, finally, in the glowing AM hours of a Thursday in May, the lone researcher on duty downed a ceremonial last swig of tepid coffee and entered the first of the standard prompts: “Request diagnostic report on solving chess.” Some time elapsed―much longer than usual―before the machine gave a response...
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These don’t do anything yet and aren’t organized. I just copied them over from cohost. Long live cohost.
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