The drake thinks for thirty thousand nodes, under two seconds on the host it shares

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CCLa2PaEeCj8njQZSWGqHx

src/lib/game/bot.ts

@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ import {
 	frozen, kindOf, levelOf, rankOf, fileOf, movesFrom, other, playOn, sideOf, inCheck, legalMoves
 } from './board';
 
-/** Nodes a move may cost. Around a second on a small server. */
+/** Nodes a move may cost: under two seconds on the one-core host, a fifth of that on a laptop. The server waits on it. */
-export const NODE_BUDGET = 80_000;
+export const NODE_BUDGET = 30_000;
 const MAX_DEPTH = 8;
 const QUIESCE_DEPTH = 4;
 const MATE = 100_000;

static/family.json

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
       "slug": "waving-hands",
       "name": "Waving Hands",
       "url": "https://hands.kestrelsnest.social",
-      "pitch": "Duelling wizards. Two hands each. The right run of gestures is a spell.",
+      "pitch": "Wizards duel with their hands, and the right run of gestures is a spell.",
       "players": "2 to 12",
       "origin": "Richard Bartle's pencil-and-paper duel, 1977"
     },
@@ -22,9 +22,25 @@
       "slug": "hnefatafl",
       "name": "Hnefatafl",
       "url": "https://tafl.kestrelsnest.social",
-      "pitch": "The Viking board game. One king, one throne, four corners, and a ring of attackers closing in.",
+      "pitch": "The Viking board game of a king breaking for safety and a ring of attackers closing in.",
       "players": "2",
       "origin": "the Norse tafl game, reconstructed from Linnaeus's 1732 notes; Copenhagen rules or Tablut"
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "dip",
+      "name": "Dip",
+      "url": "https://dip.kestrelsnest.social",
+      "pitch": "Seven powers share one map, and none of them has to keep its word.",
+      "players": "2 to 7",
+      "origin": "Allan B. Calhamer's Diplomacy, 1959; an unofficial rebuild"
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "wyrm",
+      "name": "Wyrm",
+      "url": "https://wyrm.kestrelsnest.social",
+      "pitch": "Chess on three boards, with a Dragon in the air above your King and a Basilisk in the earth below.",
+      "players": "2",
+      "origin": "Gary Gygax's Dragonchess, Dragon Magazine No. 100, 1985; an unofficial rebuild"
     }
   ]
 }