Brian H. Liou
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Brian H. Liou

Software engineer. Distributed backend systems, game engines and solvers, AI tooling.

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Pinned

  • Seventy Years of Xiangqi Champions, Annotated Seventy Years of Xiangqi Champions, Annotated Aug 30, 2026
  • Mining Xiangqi Puzzles from Real Games Mining Xiangqi Puzzles from Real Games Sep 2, 2026
  • Xiangqi Basic Endgames: What Is Known, and How Well Xiangqi Basic Endgames: What Is Known, and How Well Aug 14, 2026

Recent writing

  • Retry Safety in MCP Tool Calls Retry Safety in MCP Tool Calls Sep 1, 2026
  • Testing a Den-Race Term in a Jungle Engine Testing a Den-Race Term in a Jungle Engine Aug 31, 2026
  • Every Robot Track Record Moved at Once Every Robot Track Record Moved at Once Aug 26, 2026
  • A Restaurant's Violation Count Is Mostly Bookkeeping A Restaurant's Violation Count Is Mostly Bookkeeping Aug 18, 2026
  • A YouTube Comment's Likes Are Mostly Timing A YouTube Comment's Likes Are Mostly Timing Aug 16, 2026
  • Tic Tac Chec: The Rules, and the Solved Game Tic Tac Chec: The Rules, and the Solved Game Jul 14, 2026
  • Flip Jungle: 512× More Search Still Loses 23% of the Time Flip Jungle: 512× More Search Still Loses 23% of the Time Jul 2, 2026
  • Dou Shou Qi: Classical Search Beat the Learned Eval Dou Shou Qi: Classical Search Beat the Learned Eval Jun 27, 2026
  • One Word Can Point at Six Cards, Not Nine One Word Can Point at Six Cards, Not Nine Jun 22, 2026
  • Banqi: Self-Play Said +77 Elo, the Real Number Was Zero Banqi: Self-Play Said +77 Elo, the Real Number Was Zero Jun 19, 2026
  • Six Men's Morris Is a Draw: The First Published Solution Six Men's Morris Is a Draw: The First Published Solution Jun 19, 2026
  • 3-Player Chinese Checkers, Solved 3-Player Chinese Checkers, Solved Jun 15, 2026
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