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[Dev] Notation: Chess Coach (£2.99 for May)

Notation Chess Coach - iOS and soon Mac. You can play on the app vs bots powered by Stockfish 18 and rodent IV, play on lichess or even OTB using a Chessnut e-board.

Import your games from PGN, chess com or lichess.

Every move and game are analysed on device using a combination of Stockfish 18 evals and my bespoke and unique positional and piece analysis. This is all based on the 7 element work by Dan Heisman and is the first time this traditional coaching analysis has been applied to a commercial app. On top of that positional and game analysis layers that ensure that at Bonnie t does the LLM invent facts. It can’t. All it does is narrate provable chess facts to you, in a way you can understand and use to improve.

You can do this in a coaching game vs engine or apply to any game in post game review.
Uses your own ChatGPT or anthropic api key if you want, with a beta on device LLM that’s better on pro/ipad devices.
Or don’t use the LLM at all and just see template based advice.

Opponent scouting - with a unique matchup feature - not just how they play, it’s how you should play vs them.

All data stays on device. No ads trackers or subscriptions.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/notation-chess-coach/id6759826744

https://notationchesscoach.app

Reviews appreciated and any feedback - this isn’t abandonware it’s been my passion for months and still in active development! Solo dev in the UK, working in this in between being a full time IT manager and dad/husband!

u/Far_Owl_1141 — 14 days ago

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Most Chess coaching apps or SaaS pretty much chucks the PGN of the game at a frontier model, and expects it to actually know the rules of chess. It doesn't work, and the chess community hate them.

So I built something different. I started with the premise the LLMs job is only EVER to narrate data. The data comes from the app on device, every single move in your games, whether in app, lichens, chess.com or even OTB using a ChessNut E-Board, it all gets analysed using not only Stockfish 18, but my own 3 layer analysis that is based on actual proven chess pedagogy used for decades, including Dan Heismans 7 elements, and Silmans work on positional play.

Then the LLM receives a very specific set of provable information on the position/game/opponent/player to then narrate into language, aimed and tailored to a players experience.

Single purchase (Currently £2.99 during May, then £6.99), no subscription. Either bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI key, or use the on-device Qwen model. (I have found Open AI the best in terms of response, and cost)

No ads, trackers or anything else we hate 😉

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u/Far_Owl_1141 — 19 days ago