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I'm working through "Introduction to Tactics" and I enjoyed the video, but the lessons are frustrating. I'm doing a valid "fork" or "skewer", but the examples just slap my hand and say "no, try a fork or skewer". Explanations why moves are wrong would make the examples far more useful, so I understand why the very specific combo the tutorial is looking for is the right choice.

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We're working on incorporating personalized qualitative feedback into the content so you're provided with an explanation of why your move is incorrect and why the solution is optimal. Specific explanations for every move is probably infeasible, but we should be able to provide reasons for the most commonly played moves.

Excellent.

Did you guys build this as a framework by any chance or do you have plans to?

Are you referring to the structure of the content on the site as a framework? We think that this approach to education has significant applications beyond chess, but at the moment we're solely focused on making Chesscademy work for its intended purpose.

A short series of hints would be much more helpful, that's great. Also, at least one of the exercises (I'm thinking of mating with a rook and the king) puts you back to the original starting positions if you make a stalemate move. A bit frustrating to have to go through the beginning all over again.

I haven't played in at least 10 years and so far it's been a nice refresher, and a good looking site as well.

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