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Hello HN! I'm Andrew, a national chess master and one of the co-founders of Chesscademy. We're a part of this year's upcoming Imagine K12 cohort and it's great to hear all of your feedback so far. I'll try to answer any questions you guys have and respond to your comments.

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Lovely idea, but the FB connect is a mess. When I see that I assume I don't need to create a login. Instead, I'm prompted by Chesscademy that my username (one YOU created for me) isn't a good one because it has a period in it (you made it) and I still have to enter a password...why have FB login at all?

Hope this feedback helps.

Thanks - we've realized that there are some problems with FB connect when characters like a period are used. We're working on fixing this.

Indeed. Mozilla Persona support would be nice.

https://login.persona.org/

Or just OpenID?

Appreciate that you took the time to personally address a reported tactic. You are doing things that don't scale the right way - tactics are 90% of this website for me at the moment, and they're starting to get pretty arbitrary and frustrating. So to manually filter through them will encourage me, and others in the same boat to stick with Chesscademy.

This is a great project, to my mind. My grandfather told me the basics when I was around three years old, but I’ve never really approached tactics, especially in such a structured, accessible and clear way you do it in the videos.

You definitely got me hooked up on this for some time :) Thanks, Andrew, to you and your team!

Thanks so much for the kind words! Happy learning!

This is absolutely fantastic. Well done for creating such a great product Andrew, really well implemented.

Thank you so much!

Well done, Andrew! I particularly like your team photos. How long did it take to design the site, etc?

Our first iteration of the site took 2 months to build. The three co-founders worked on it from June - August of last year and the product was well received by HN (we reached the top post a year ago as well).

Chesscademy had a temporary hiatus when we went back to school last fall, but we've been working on it full time since January of this year. The product and user base has grown substantially since then.

Thank you. My daughter and I did so the exercises together and she now loves chess =].

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