Chessguessr – Wordle for Chess Games

I am planning to add a third color for the correct piece, but wrong move. Just need to find out what to do if it _also_ yellow. Maybe show both colors? I'll figure out something. Thanks for the feedback!

It's not a puzzle, it's taken from a game, so the sequence isn't necessarily always the strongest moves

I actually really disagree.

The one I just played, I guessed in four. But the key thing I like about this format is that you're evaluating all the tension points in a position, and then figuring out what the order of operations needs to be. So on my third guess, I got all but the second move right. Then I had to work backwards and forwards to figure the rest out.

I quite liked it. Ostensibly, the same is true in a puzzle, but in this format there's more opportunity for trial and error to discover more about the position you might not have seen in the first glance.

Chess puzzles always have one solution. I don't know how this game was picked but the solution to this particular puzzle is the only solution. There are certainly other moves that could be played in this position but they are all losing as far as I can tell. Assuming every position from every game chosen is like this it sort of makes sense but as someone who does a lot of chess puzzles I don't see how this is much different from just normally doing chess puzzles.

Thanks for the feedback! For now I'm selecting games where they play near-optimal moves or where the continuation is somewhat logical, so that you could narrow down the options by combining several logical continuations into one guess. I think it would be really hard to solve if an illogical bad move appeared in the line. However, since I'm storing the solve percentage of each puzzle, it would be fun trying it now and then to compare the difficulties.

Adding OTB games is a good idea. I am thinking of adding some classical games, but I'm not sure if I'll have a new category or just add them to the regular daily ones.

I bought the domain before I knew what I was gonna do with it :D

But I have plans for some extra modes or games that are less Wordle-like. They're not exactly GeoGuessr-like either, although being dropped onto a chess square and finding out whether you're on c3 or g6 could provide some fun!

But chessdle doesn't quite roll off the tongue.

Thanks, good idea! I can see some cases where you don't necessarily want to play the same correct 3 moves – if you just want to test a bunch of other moves to get more information (yellow/greys). But there could be a button to automatically play the moves you've already gotten right.

In the final scoring modal, the moves are linked:

https://lichess.org/J8HKQ0Fy/white

It's at the same point; press the "Play next move" button in the bottom right.

Chess.com and lichess both have puzzles, the latter are free and you can play through them like this, sort of, except you only make moves for one side.

White's threatening to win a piece. There's a pretty nasty discovery in the position. Once you find the first move the rest should follow pretty quickly.

Correct move at the wrong time.

Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah I have gotten some reports that dark mode plugins could mess up the board. If you can turn it off for specific websites, I suggest doing that, and rather use the dark mode on chessguessr.com.