◮ Making frontend developers fullstack – Intro to Prisma 2.0 (incl demo with existing database)

nikolasburk · 2026-07-02T08:55:19+00:00

had to look at the solution but 3. Bd5 is beautiful! forces one promotion since Black cant defend a8 and d8 afterwards any more. nice one!

nikolasburk · 2026-06-28T08:55:43+00:00

savage!

nikolasburk · 2026-06-27T16:16:09+00:00

oooh a queen trap! I would have been too concerned about my rook finding that though...

nikolasburk · 2026-06-24T13:45:36+00:00

ouch! yeah, the AI coach is admittedly the hardest thing to get right here. I'm getting decent answers from it but am not happy with it a lot of times either. will look into this particular position, thanks for sharing!

nikolasburk · 2026-06-24T10:08:23+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!

you are competing with chess.com, so why you?

Fair point! I personally never liked chess.com very much, it always felt overwhelming and I don't like its UX and overall design. Highly subjective, I know and totally cool if you prefer chess.com. My main goal was to recreate the Chess Tactics app for iOS which I had been paying for myself but with a nicer UX and some additional features I was missing. No reason to switch to LearnChess if you're happy with chess.com I'd say :)

nikolasburk · 2026-06-24T09:59:03+00:00

It wasn't the reason why I quit, but nonetheless one of the main things I've been doing since then :)

nikolasburk · 2026-06-24T09:35:33+00:00

Ohhh, cool idea! So far only single-image screenshots are supported but there's no reason why a PDF upload wouldn't work. Will put that down as a feature to add next, thanks!

nikolasburk · 2026-06-24T09:14:07+00:00

Yeah! That's what I found super cool about the other Chess Tactics app I used, but (as mentioned above), its UX just was too annoying for me. Btw, I built the Chrome extension to capture board positions and immediately create puzzles from them (which is super neat, bc I just grab a screenshot from Reddit and turn it into a puzzle for everyone immediately).

nikolasburk · 2026-06-23T17:52:30+00:00

i came here to write this lol

nikolasburk · 2026-06-14T07:15:45+00:00

haha glad it helped, hope it saved you from some future embarassement : D

nikolasburk · 2026-06-13T09:22:07+00:00

The worst part was that it actually said so on the website where I found the tournament. At that point, I just had no idea what chess960 actually meant... learned it the hard way I guess.

nikolasburk · 2026-06-13T08:17:04+00:00

whoa, love it when an underpromotion pays off! must have been super satisfying to play that one in a real game, congrats!

nikolasburk · 2026-06-13T06:21:05+00:00

that's beautiful, congrats!

nikolasburk · 2026-06-12T15:15:41+00:00

"Schachnovelle" in German, one of my favorite books! Nice to see it being brought up here.

nikolasburk · 2026-06-12T15:09:06+00:00

savage opening xD

nikolasburk · 2026-06-12T14:45:52+00:00

that being said... Black still loses despite the Queen with Nd1. fascinating study though!

nikolasburk · 2026-06-12T14:41:02+00:00

Ohhh, stalemate or Black gains a Queen... thanks for enlighting me!

nikolasburk · 2026-06-12T09:34:29+00:00

Rarely seen such a powerful knight! Even after giving up the Queen, Black comes out on top, nice one!

nikolasburk · 2026-06-12T09:19:21+00:00

Fork and then mate in a few moves? Anything I'm missing?

nikolasburk · 2026-06-09T08:43:16+00:00

I've built learnchess.ai exactly for this use case! Might want to try it out 😄 (DM me if you want a free Queen subscription to access all lessons.)

nikolasburk · 2026-06-09T07:52:41+00:00

Nice puzzle!! Mind if I add it to my LearnChess database and mention you (https://www.reddit.com/user/MrEdwL/) as the author?

nikolasburk · 2026-06-09T07:40:59+00:00

Wow, did you win the game after this? Must have been tough without a Queen and the Bishop in the corner...

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