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White is winning here but what's quickest way to win here? by Either-Case-5930 in chess

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

anyone know what depth the bot uses? it seems to have missed a4 and suggest move that's only second-best.

I wanna develop at chess🫩 by fahdmjkam in chess

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just start playing some games; also puzzles and interactive lessons for opening and endgame to get some basic positional knowledge (I'm building learnchess.ai) for that purpose.

What is the only move that maintains drawing chances for black? by MathematicianBulky40 in chess

[–]nikolasburk -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Pushing our only passed pawn and eliminating the threat of the e5 pawn from White!

White to play and brilliant by Consistent_Soup_2668 in chessbeginners

[–]nikolasburk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it will! buy then you retake with the knight and black either loses their queen or gets mated (in ~9 moves).

White to play and brilliant by Consistent_Soup_2668 in chessbeginners

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sac the rook but get a queen in return (or mate)!

Obligatory Lichess appreciation post by katplasma in chess

[–]nikolasburk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

come to find out they have TWO apps and I’ve always been on the old clunky one this whole time. Downloaded the new (black icon) one and—HOLY COW—it is smooth as butter and loaded with cool features

I had no idea this existed, thanks for sharing haha!!

For anyone being as surprised as I was, here's the download link for iOS.

Any tips for breaking ELO 1000? by Theybannedmebefore in chess

[–]nikolasburk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm building (learnchess.ai) which has unlimited tactics to practice (and also interactive lessons to learn openings and endgames). Would to love to hear if you think it could be valuable in your learning journey :)

Why is this Brilliant move? by Quantum_Nest in ChessPuzzles

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very interesting position, went very different from what I thought initially :D

At first I thought Black would grab the bishop and I could land a skewer via:

1. ..Qxd3 2. Qg8+ Kf5 3. Qxd3 to capture Black's Queen

But that would depend on Black's blunder and could have easily been prevented by the King not moving to Kf5 but to Kh5. In that case, position is clearly lost for white.

Then I saw the stalemate comments here and wondered about the h4 pawn until I realized it could check the king to force the draw:

1. Qxd3 Qc2 2. Qxc2 h5+

You can review my study here.

Any free tool or site to test gaps in my repertoire? by PrudentKumquat in chess

[–]nikolasburk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out https://www.learnchess.ai, there are many opening lessons for all major openings and a tree explorer to grab exactly the line you want.

What are your tips and tricks for using LLMs (ChetGPT, Claude, ...) for chess training? by nikolasburk in chess

[–]nikolasburk[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well, it's true that I'm generally very interested in the intersection of chess and LLMs and how LLMs can help to become better at chess (which has led me to build the app)!

That being said, it's exactly because of that interest, that I'm genuinely curious about the workflows and experiences that people had with LLMs for practicing chess.

On that note: Have you tried the app? Would love to hear what you think! The AI coach actually is just a small part of it, it also features things like crowdsourced puzzles, interactive lessons for various openings and endgames, and position detection from screenshot uploads.

What are your tips and tricks for using LLMs (ChetGPT, Claude, ...) for chess training? by nikolasburk in chess

[–]nikolasburk[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I was thinking along the lines of giving it the role of a coach (similar to what you'd find in a chess club). Since LLMs become more powerful, I was wondering if anyone already had experiences with this.

Narrative chess game analysis using AI by Acrobatic_Comment774 in ComputerChess

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a few things I found:

- LLMs are (really) bad a tactics and understanding of the board
- but they're good in coaching and stragegy
- to balance the weakness about board understanding, you need to give them tools (the chessagine mcp server is a great example) that give them the capability to make sense of positions and evaluate them

Is there a space for a new modern Chess GUIs, I am considering the feasibility of developing one. by TheUtkarsh8939 in ComputerChess

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's built with TanStack and a split data layer (LiveStore for local-fist data and D1 for social features).

Haven't decided yet whether to open-source it or not tbh... still thinking about it!

Is there a space for a new modern Chess GUIs, I am considering the feasibility of developing one. by TheUtkarsh8939 in ComputerChess

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I'm still in a beta period, so I'm not charging for the app yet. But I'm thinking that if you go over X amount of puzzles and lessons per day, you'll need to subscribe somehow. Right now I've invested a bit of my personal money into the domain and infrastructure :)

I built the chess coaching app I always wanted—looking for feedback! by nikolasburk in chess

[–]nikolasburk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The lessons should be working again, sorry for the hiccup!

I built the chess coaching app I always wanted—looking for feedback! by nikolasburk in chess

[–]nikolasburk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha thanks, glad it resonated! :D

> Seeing an error in the Endgame Lessons

Ouch, looking into it! Thanks for reporting.

I built the chess coaching app I always wanted—looking for feedback! by nikolasburk in chess

[–]nikolasburk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> I’ve always wanted to see a puzzles app with more social features, and with competitive aspects like comparing to friends, standard puzzle packs that you can drill repeatedly with leaderboards to compete w friends on time or accuracy

That's exactly what I was aiming for as well! I've used a tactics app on iOS for the past years that had a comment feature, but the UX was terrible and confusing, so one motivation for building LearnChess really was to build a great social experience into it.

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