Game I build and run Game Dojo on my own — the chess and Othello games, the position analysis, and the guides and verified-analysis articles that go with them.
What I do on each article
- Pick the position — I start from a piece of received wisdom that nobody seems to have checked, and find a position where it can be tested.
- Run the analysis — the engine or the solver goes through the position, and the output is saved as it comes.
- Read the result — if the numbers do not say what I expected, the position gets reconsidered, not the numbers.
- Write it up — separating what the figures show from what they do not.
How the analysis is done
- Chess
- Stockfish 18 Lite WASM at depth 20. Each candidate move is played, then the resulting position is searched.
- Othello
- A solver I wrote (negamax with alpha-beta) that solves the endgame exactly, giving the final disc margin with best play from both sides. Not an approximation.
Every figure in the articles comes out of one of those two runs. Nothing is estimated by hand. The rules I follow are in the editorial policy.
About Color Your Life
It is the idea behind everything I make: we all value different things, and we should each be free to colour our own life the way we want. Game Dojo is one part of that.
Contact
Corrections, questions and suggestions are welcome through the contact form. Articles do get changed when someone points out a mistake.