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Brass Pawn: Chess Trainer

Offline chess training with Stockfish 18 and Reckless

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Train tactics (14,351 puzzles), positional judgement, endgames, and Guess the Elo offline on iPhone, iPad & Mac with Stockfish 18 and Reckless. Zero ads.

PH · launched Nov 13, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: ai chess training platforms · 62 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▲ +14% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Education
  • Vertical SaaS
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Strategy Games

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Could you build this?

Yes Stockfish is open source and can be bundled, and the puzzle set (14k puzzles) and Elo calibration can come from public datasets such as Lichess. The app is mainly UI and training flows across Apple platforms.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 174 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #76 of 175 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 378 days after the earliest competitor.

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