Chess, board games & puzzles Videos Recommended on Hacker News (27)

Chess, board games & puzzles is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 27 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 70 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Tabletop and abstract games: chess, Go, poker, board game design, card games, AlphaGo matches, puzzles, Rubik's cube, strategy and game AI.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary: “I consider AlphaGo - The Movie [1] to be a timeless classic that will never feel outdated.” — an HN commenter, 2025.