This is awesome, I love it!
@Flamin-Hot-Cheetos said in #20:
> I tried the sliding one, its difficult, took me like 5 mins and got it first try. Love it, but a better color theme could really turn the website around. Right now, it seems ragged though it is really nice
Thank you, I will be looking at design updates in the future, what do you mean about colour theme? More variety?
5 mins? Wow, I have not been able to complete the chess slide myself. I had to hack the code to make sure it worked.
Can you add a "reveal answer button?" And maybe a way to move to an analysis board to explore the positions?
@SchtroumpfSchtroumpf said in #23:
> Can you add a "reveal answer button?" And maybe a way to move to an analysis board to explore the positions?
An analysis board is something that platforms like chess.com and Lichess can do infinitely better than I have the resources to do, so I am not sure if this would be in the roadmap.
Although, having a deep link i.e. the ability to explore position on Lichess is something that I will have a think about, if it is possible at all.
What I mean by a better color theme is like lichess, it looks neat and proper, especially if you put a background on. But, your website(no offense) seems disorganized and ragged, like it isn't fully developed. Like how YouTube has curved edges in its video boxes and a neat clean website. Right now, though it is still developing, I think if you could just make it a little neater with curved edges instead of sharp points, and maybe a few touches, it could be great. For example, on this very forum, if you scroll to the bottom, you'll see the edges are slightly curved, and so are many things, like the chess board. Even the smallest things can make it seem better. (Tip: One of my favorite things about lichess is it's preferences. I really like the transparency setting when you set a background. This one of the reasons why I think chess.com is worse than lichess.)
@Flamin-Hot-Cheetos said in #25:
> What I mean by a better color theme is like lichess, it looks neat and proper, especially if you put a background on. But, your website(no offense) seems disorganized and ragged, like it isn't fully developed. Like how YouTube has curved edges in its video boxes and a neat clean website. Right now, though it is still developing, I think if you could just make it a little neater with curved edges instead of sharp points, and maybe a few touches, it could be great. For example, on this very forum, if you scroll to the bottom, you'll see the edges are slightly curved, and so are many things, like the chess board. Even the smallest things can make it seem better. (Tip: One of my favorite things about lichess is it's preferences. I really like the transparency setting when you set a background. This one of the reasons why I think chess.com is worse than lichess.)
Thank you for the in-depth message, and no offence ever taken, I want as much feedback as possible and will definitely add this to my.backlog.
Interesting thing, there is functionality to change the background colour, dark mode, piece sets as well as board colour embedded within my code, this will all be released once profiles become available.
I love the page. Hope it gets bigger! Pls fix the Guess the Opening logo, It says "guess the openng"
@HollowLeaf said in #24:
> Although, having a deep link i.e. the ability to explore position on Lichess is something that I will have a think about, if it is possible at all.
Yeah I think this is perfect. For example, I was trying the guess the opening. I had 6 out of 8 moves and I couldn't find the last two. I wish there was a button I could press that took me to a lichess analysis board with all 8 moves so I could see what the answer was and then see what the engine and the book says the continuations are so that hopefully in the future I would know the whole opening. Instead I tried like 10 different things, couldn't figure it out, got frustrated, and then left.
@SchtroumpfSchtroumpf said in #28:
> Yeah I think this is perfect. For example, I was trying the guess the opening. I had 6 out of 8 moves and I couldn't find the last two. I wish there was a button I could press that took me to a lichess analysis board with all 8 moves so I could see what the answer was and then see what the engine and the book says the continuations are so that hopefully in the future I would know the whole opening. Instead I tried like 10 different things, couldn't figure it out, got frustrated, and then left.
Yes, I think the deep linking will allow you to explore from this final position, so could be useful. Regarding the games, after six attempts, it should show you the answer, I should make that more explicit, and probably will do in my next update.
@HollowLeaf said in #6:
> The initial thoughts for the platform was to identify opening mistakes i.e. we play our repertoire of openings and don't realise we have internalised a sub optimal line. However, that is a much tougher and longer project.
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> I am planning on completing this in the next versions, i.e. combine Lichess and Chess.com games into your profile and then apply some AI to it to show you where you can improve. This is a much longer project though, but I am targeting early next year for an alpha release.
I have worked on Chessxplain API that does exactly this and its open sourced, its in beta release so if you want to try it you can! you can find the code by searching it here https://github.com/jalpp/chessxplain