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Hi,

I find this approach for learning from past games quit interesting. I am currently collecting bookmarks of puzzles that show relevant things I want to train but are not available as tags on lichess:

Would it also be possible to design the tool such that it could accept a set of hyperlinks from existing puzzles and convert these into a PGN file for an interactive study (or directly into an interactive study?)

Hi, I find this approach for learning from past games quit interesting. I am currently collecting bookmarks of puzzles that show relevant things I want to train but are not available as tags on lichess: - For example: Discovered Check Threatening mate but capturing with a fork situational pins (https://chessmood.com/blog/chess-pin Would it also be possible to design the tool such that it could accept a set of hyperlinks from existing puzzles and convert these into a PGN file for an interactive study (or directly into an interactive study?)

The sample study is awesome. I think it would be advantageous to have 2 versions where you can use:

  1. a merged branch with all variations in 1 Chapter and
  2. one chapter per variation (at max 64 variation should be enough for most human beings)

I would then use the result from 1) or 2) for interactive practice lessons on www.listudy.org. 2) could be more useful because the user could actively select the variation to train for.

The sample study is awesome. I think it would be advantageous to have 2 versions where you can use: 1) a merged branch with all variations in 1 Chapter and 2) one chapter per variation (at max 64 variation should be enough for most human beings) I would then use the result from 1) or 2) for interactive practice lessons on www.listudy.org. 2) could be more useful because the user could actively select the variation to train for.

Contact me directly on chat. Lichess puzzles are public, in the sense that you can get one by id and you can download a 700MB csv with the puzzles, but in order to index and search them in a particular fashion we need to discuss requirements.

I think it can be done. I am working now on ways to download information in large files on your computer and then use them to find information quickly, but I need to understand your use case.

I am European, so try to find me at reasonable hours for Europe :)

Contact me directly on chat. Lichess puzzles are public, in the sense that you can get one by id and you can download a 700MB csv with the puzzles, but in order to index and search them in a particular fashion we need to discuss requirements. I think it can be done. I am working now on ways to download information in large files on your computer and then use them to find information quickly, but I need to understand your use case. I am European, so try to find me at reasonable hours for Europe :)

@dirkster99 said in #3:

I would then use the result from 1) or 2) for interactive practice lessons on www.listudy.org. 2) could be more useful because the user could actively select the variation to train for.

What does listudy have that Lichess with LiChess Tools doesn't have?

@dirkster99 said in #3: > I would then use the result from 1) or 2) for interactive practice lessons on www.listudy.org. 2) could be more useful because the user could actively select the variation to train for. What does listudy have that Lichess with LiChess Tools doesn't have?

I am nowhere near being an expert here. But as far as I know, listudy allows you to select different variations of a study and practice them in the form of spaced repetitions. At lichess you can do something very similar with interactive puzzles, but its not quit the same, because you would have to do an extra click for every repetition and listudy does not support partial repeats of a variation.

The things I am missing on lichess:

  1. listudy repeats only parts of a variation in order to check, if you memorized the position without having seen, for example, the first five moves.

  2. listudy can also train multiple variations, (selecting them randomly), if they are stored in one Chapter like in your sample. This is something I could not get done on lichess, because every other variation then the main line is seen as a mistake. And variations are completely invisible, if you reply a chapter with variations in interactive mode.

See, for example, this study: https://listudy.org/en/studies/edmfn8-english-opening-repertoire
Select the 2nd option from the Chapter 'Selection: English Opening Repertoire: c4 c5 copycat English' and play it for a while. You should get a position where its OK to move more then one piece (go into either variation in this way).

For 1) You would have to play quit a while and then you should see partial repeats. You might want to use a different opening with 10 to 20 moves in the selected variation to verify this.

I am nowhere near being an expert here. But as far as I know, listudy allows you to select different variations of a study and practice them in the form of spaced repetitions. At lichess you can do something very similar with interactive puzzles, but its not quit the same, because you would have to do an extra click for every repetition and listudy does not support partial repeats of a variation. The things I am missing on lichess: 1) listudy repeats only parts of a variation in order to check, if you memorized the position without having seen, for example, the first five moves. 2) listudy can also train multiple variations, (selecting them randomly), if they are stored in one Chapter like in your sample. This is something I could not get done on lichess, because every other variation then the main line is seen as a mistake. And variations are completely invisible, if you reply a chapter with variations in interactive mode. See, for example, this study: https://listudy.org/en/studies/edmfn8-english-opening-repertoire Select the 2nd option from the Chapter 'Selection: English Opening Repertoire: c4 c5 copycat English' and play it for a while. You should get a position where its OK to move more then one piece (go into either variation in this way). For 1) You would have to play quit a while and then you should see partial repeats. You might want to use a different opening with 10 to 20 moves in the selected variation to verify this.

@dirkster99 Thanks a lot for the detailed reply. LiChess Tools does have sequential and spaced repetition features for studies, but they are in an incipient phase and I want to redesign the whole thing. Your message helps a lot!

@dirkster99 Thanks a lot for the detailed reply. LiChess Tools does have sequential and spaced repetition features for studies, but they are in an incipient phase and I want to redesign the whole thing. Your message helps a lot!