I always am fond of projects to rebuild things from the past, as I can already see that systems that I had used for a long time, are already gone. We're losing much more information nowadays, as in 1900-2000 main vessel of knowledge were books and those are available more or less in libraries, but since 2000 knowledge was been published more often in forums and web apps/blogs and those are not storable due to copyright law and privacy issues. This knowledge is or will be lost in a few years.
Not speaking of old movies/series etc. Thankfully music is still available on CDs
I've tried quickly on my phone, but it's too hard to use:
- I normally prefer to click on the piece and then on the target square. It doesn't work here, I think only drag & drop is supported.
- But drag & drop is broken, as it's scrolling the page at the same time as the piece.
I like the concept, I'll try again later on laptop.
Great to see this on HN and great work grondilu! Many users of memchess yearned for it to return and it really did disappear suddenly. It fills a great gap between a strategy book/guide and pure tactic trainers. Next step is for it to be refined as it was always a little clunky.
If you’re interested in spaced repetition for chess openings I’d strongly recommend chessbook. Not open source but extremely helpful in discovering interesting variations and remembering them in the long term.
Spaced repetitions for openings make a lot of sense, but in my experience they work better for tactics. I improved a lot with a hacked up solution combining puzzles and spaced repetitions, and then created a website to make it easier for anybody to adopt that approach: https://chess.braimax.com
Lately I've been very busy with my day job, but I'm almost ready to get back to developing that website. Suggestions are welcome.
This is awesome. If you want help from other contributors, you'll probably find it easier to collaborate if you move memchess into its own repo (vs storing it in the grondilu.github.io repo). Each repo can have a dedicated GH Pages.
Really cool!
@grondilu - this is awesome!
I have been working on something similar for the past few months. Would be cool to connect if you're interested.
My email is emorywitt@gmail.com
For Go: https://www.josekipedia.com/
It doesn't seem to actually tell me which opening I'm supposed to be doing?
I just played "1. d4" and it said it was the wrong. Then after playing "1. e4" it said I'm playing the spanish mainline.
Oh god, I'm so thankful for this, I was extremely sad when this disappeared, it was by far the best!
I find chess goes from tedious and overwhelming in the opening game, to interesting in the midgame, and fascinating towards the endgame. Sad you have to memorize thousands of opening lines to get good at it.
memchess.com was a neat website to learn chess openings with the spaced repetition method.
It was closed around 2020 for some reason.
I used code gathered from archive.org[1] and built a version that seems to work. It does not require a subscription/login, instead it stores progress through the HTML5 web storage API[2].
1. https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/memchess.com
2. https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_webstorage.asp