[HN Gopher] Rebuilding memchess.com from its archive
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Rebuilding memchess.com from its archive
Author : grondilu
Score : 92 points
Date : 2024-03-10 18:48 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (grondilu.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (grondilu.github.io)
| grondilu wrote:
| 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].
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| 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/memchess.com
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| 2. https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_webstorage.asp
| TylerLives wrote:
| Have you tried https://listudy.org ?
| najdf wrote:
| https://listudy.org is a brilliant open source opening spaced
| repetition trainer. Another one is https://chessdriller.org,
| though you need to provide the moves yourself for that one.
| There's also https://chessmadra.com, but I believe their
| backend is closed-source.
| ta8645 wrote:
| It seems like the variation displayed at the bottom left of the
| board is trailing the move played, rather than being displayed
| beforehand as a challenge. This means that when the board is
| first displayed, there is no indication at all as to which
| opening you're expected to be recalling.
|
| Or am I misunderstanding the expected interaction?
| amsully wrote:
| It allows you to flow through lines and play best book moves
| naturally. You can tell it that you want to focus on
| particular lines or line and it will let you know when you've
| made an incorrect move.
| laurentlb wrote:
| 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.
| bbx wrote:
| I second that on desktops/laptops as well: being able to click
| on a piece and then on the target.
| bean-weevil wrote:
| It works for me on Firefox android (but maybe that's because
| there's nothing to scroll)
| amsully wrote:
| 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.
| FiReaNG3L wrote:
| Oh god, I'm so thankful for this, I was extremely sad when this
| disappeared, it was by far the best!
| QuadrupleA wrote:
| 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.
| najdf wrote:
| If you don't enjoy studying openings, you can get far by just
| being aware of opening ideas and common traps, and spending the
| rest of your time on midgame and endgame. Memorizing thousands
| of opening lines is really only for 2200+ Elo players (global
| top 20,000), even though Chessable and other marketing teams
| are doing their best to convince amateurs otherwise.
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