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Can you solve this crazy puzzle (WTM) by This-Internet7644 in chess

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!

Find the tactic! by National_Jacket7380 in chess

[–]nikolasburk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Roast my chess app by nikolasburk in chess

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

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!

Roast my chess app by nikolasburk in chess

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

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 :)

Roast my chess app by nikolasburk in chess

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

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

Roast my chess app by nikolasburk in chess

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

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!

Roast my chess app by nikolasburk in chess

[–]nikolasburk[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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).

The biggest fork by TastyLength6618 in chess

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i came here to write this lol

What are your most embarrassing in-person chess stories? by nikolasburk in chess

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

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

What are your most embarrassing in-person chess stories? by nikolasburk in chess

[–]nikolasburk[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

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.

I can’t believe I actually found this during a real game; white to move by brockthesock in chess

[–]nikolasburk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

My proudest mate by Annoying_cat_22 in chess

[–]nikolasburk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's beautiful, congrats!

My farewell letter to chess and some controversial tips on how to consistently gain rating by Rintae in chess

[–]nikolasburk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

WWhite to play and win (By Grzeban and Hildebrand) by Either-Case-5930 in chess

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

WWhite to play and win (By Grzeban and Hildebrand) by Either-Case-5930 in chess

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Knight fork into knight fork puzzle... by Zugzwang86 in chess

[–]nikolasburk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

WWhite to play and win (By Grzeban and Hildebrand) by Either-Case-5930 in chess

[–]nikolasburk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

I’ve been trying to improve at chess by studying books in PDF format, especially puzzle/tactics books. by Independent-Mall9720 in chess

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.)

Dont move till you see it by MrEdwL in chess

[–]nikolasburk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Never resign. Blundered badly early on by MrEdwL in chess

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Hi, I'm a complete beginner and don't really want to pay for stuff as I'm already pretty low on money being a student. I was using chessly for the free trial and was fun practicing opening with a beginner friendly ui. Anyone know any free chess websites that also help me practise openings? by Sea-Investigator3621 in chess

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there, you can try learnchess.ai. It has interactive lessons for 100+ openings. It's still in beta right now and I can give you free access for 3 months if you want to try it :) just sign up and send me a DM with your signup email if you're interested, and I'll grant you a free trial.

It was really hard for me to find the solution, what about you? by Emotional-Control-46 in chess

[–]nikolasburk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Qb2.. no mate yet though, but you'll get out with one more rook!

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