Comparison of Freestyle Wrestling and Chess
The origin story: family background, CS50, the first 64-cube space, and the early public demos that tried to make chess logic move like a wrestler.
Blog Series
Three essays that explain the project from idea to analyzer
Is Chess an Abstract Replay of Freestyle Wrestling?
The correction phase: low singles, fireman’s carry, sacrifice, high crotch, and the effort to make the geometry feel more like actual wrestling.
Chess Wrestling Animations More than just One
The later breakthrough: FEN mapping symmetry, multiple valid isomorphisms, visible penetration logic, and the move toward the FEN-OX analyzer.
Experiment Directory
The evolving old-site branch, cleaned into a readable directory
Early public demos
These are the first public experiment links exposed from the original blog.
FEN mapping builders
Intermediate pages that moved from early experiments toward stored mappings and analyzer logic.
Live and analyzer line
The more mature branch that culminates in the FEN-OX analyzer and Lichess-connected experiments.
Intentionally excluded:
The database-writing FEN creation endpoint is left out of this public directory on purpose. The Lab page should reference stable experiments, not pages that push bulk generated mappings into a database.
Blender / Video References
Video examples of chess move animations in Blender
