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Glass chess — play the rules, watch it think

You are White (move first); the engine is Black. Its whole brain is the three rules on the right. Pick a lens to paint one rule's thinking onto the board, then hover any piece to read why it matters. After you move, the board keeps the engine's top-3 replies as arrows (purple = played, grey = 2nd & 3rd choice), and "how it picked" spells out the math in words.

Your move — click a white piece.

Hover a piece on the board to read its role.

⚙️ The engine's three rules — its entire brain

🔍 Lens — paint ONE rule on the board (modes, not layers)

💰 Material 🎯 Center 🛡️ Safety ◻ Plain
💰 Grab material
How many points of pieces each side has. The engine wants more than you.
how much it cares×10
🎯 Fight for the center
How central its pieces stand — middle squares are worth more.
how much it cares×3
🛡️ Don't hang pieces
Whether it's leaving a piece to be captured for free.
how much it cares×6

Each slider is a weight: the rule's raw score is multiplied by it, then the three are added into one number. Slide a weight to 0 and the engine ignores that rule entirely — set all three to 0 and it just plays the first move it sees (you'll crush it).

🔎 How it picked its last move

Make a move — the engine's reasoning shows up here, in words.