Show HN: Matle – A Daily Chess Puzzle Inspired by Wordle (matle.io)

That's quite challenging for a first puzzle, though it is a well-known mate. Guessed in 3 tries

Looks really cool, although way beyond my chess ability. Nice work

Seems cool, reminds me of this video where top GMs guess the position without seeing the pieces. Some can even name players and the date of the game.

https://youtu.be/_Ntn4jEv7rE?feature=shared

At first I thought it would be the typical chess exercise question, just that everybody gets the same one each day, but I like the approach you have. Makes one think differently than usual.

It's really confusing to me that I drag a piece, I drop it on a square, it stays there, and there's an animation that the piece returns to the bottom. If it stays there, it shouldn't have a "returning" animation. Otherwise, it's an interesting puzzle.

Managed to guess it on the first try after realising it looked like a real game. Bit sad to see only one puzzle per day.

Sharing the result also reveils the solution in copied text, maybe remove that so someone could share the exact puzzle without immediatly seeing the solution.

at least on the first one there was really only one way it could have happened under reasonable assumptions (mainly, that the white queen had just been taken). I'm not sure it works very well for the Wordle format, although it is fun as a puzzle otherwise.

Worked pretty well. It was nice that it told me "this is not a mate", I'd have burned through all my tries without that guardrail.

This is actually an interesting take on a chess puzzle, instead of calculate the winning sequence it's asking you to reconstruct it.

Very cool to have to think in the other direction to solve it.

Very cool idea, and very well implemented. My only feedback is that you should clarify whether the solution has to be a valid position that can be reached in a chess game.

Cool! not getting any response from the share result button on firefox (got it on the second try and wanted to brag a bit about it)

Very nice idea. Reminds me a bit of https://www.chessguessr.com/.

Nice! Will be trying this over the next few days

A fun idea and great execution. Looking forward to tomorrow's puzzle

The experiment is cool, but after this first attempt I wonder if it's not going to be too easy to guess in just one try lots of times.

There should be colorblind options. Makes the puzzle quite challenging.

Nice idea!

Here is mine: https://www.solitairle.com/

I like this! Very creative tool to learn chess mating patterns

Fun puzzle! Fyi, does not play well with Brave - experimantal dark mode.

But I think that's probably true of a lot of chess sites. I sort of feel like sites should have a way of flagging themselves as already in dark mode, so that they can be ignored by any dark mode extensions.

Also, it wasn't immediately obvious that you only get the feedback after a valid checkmate.

Sorry to say, but this is very unintuitive and hard.

I guess I was a bit flippant about my guesses and realized I made two guesses that were invalid because they weren't actually checkmates.

IMO those should count as guesses.

I felt like an imposter getting the praise "Wow, you're fast!" and "only two guesses!" when I'd actually submitted 4 guesses... just that two were so bad that the game rejected them outright. lol.

I really liked it. I found it to be quite difficult, but somehow managed to solve the problem in 4 tries. At first I didn't quite realize that you can put opposing pieces on the board so I think I wasted one or two turns. In general, love the concept and execution, but seems like it might have a pretty narrow audience of chess enthusiasts.

Incredible. Loved it!

Loved it! I'm so so at chess but was able to get it in 3 tries. Nice execution with the UI.