I Tested 885 Duolingo Chess Puzzles. 24% Do Not Make Sense

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Post by tylervsnyc » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

I Tested 885 Duolingo Chess Puzzles. 24% Do Not Make Sense
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Post by tylervsnyc » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

Hi All, 6 months of research enjoy!

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Post by smokedetector1 » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 8:05 PM UTC

High quality, charming article. The Hikaru defeat mentions made me chuckle. One possibility I think you’ve omitted is that they slopped the puzzles pretty hard

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Post by phillipharris » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

smokedetector1 wrote: post #3

High quality, charming article. The Hikaru defeat mentions made me chuckle. One possibility I think you’ve omitted is that they slopped the puzzles pretty hard

Unfortunately 100% AI according to pangram (and my nose)

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Post by werrett » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

Oh cool. This is from the folks behind story time chess.

https://storytimechess.com/

I can thoroughly recommend. I’ve purchased it for my (then) 4 year old and it’s definitely been a great way for us to both get better at the game

On the chess app front I love Noctie.ai. Don’t be put off by the AI bit. It’s a we’ll crafted app with both short form puzzles, and longer scenarios

https://noctie.ai/

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Post by smokedetector1 » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC

phillipharris wrote: post #4

smokedetector1 wrote: post #3

High quality, charming article. The Hikaru defeat mentions made me chuckle. One possibility I think you’ve omitted is that they slopped the puzzles pretty hard

Unfortunately 100% AI according to pangram (and my nose)

Its pretty clearly AI written but human curated (hopefully). To me it didnt read like unadulterated slop

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Post by no_multitudes » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 11:36 PM UTC

odd you would spend so long researching this, yet choose not to write it yourself. The LLM tone is tacky and distracting.

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Post by wrboyce » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 5:18 AM UTC

werrett wrote: post #5

Oh cool. This is from the folks behind story time chess. https://storytimechess.com/ I can thoroughly recommend. I’ve purchased it for my (then) 4 year old and it’s definitely been a great way for us to both get better at the game On the chess app front I love Noctie.ai. Don’t be put off by the AI bit. It’s a we’ll crafted app with both short form puzzles, and longer scenarios https://noctie.ai/

Worth noting that after playing an incredibly irritatingly slow game of chess, Noctie will ask for 14 Euros a month to carry on playing!