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I built a chess notation trainer with Claude — and never wrote a single line of code

DEV Community·Daniel Dao·27 days ago
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I picked up Logical Chess: Move by Move a few months ago. Great book. Except every few pages I'd hit a move like Nxb5+ or O-O-O and completely lose the thread. I'd stop, count files, second-guess myself, then forget what Chernev was actually explaining. I went looking for a free tool that just drilled notation. Nothing paywalled, nothing that needed an account. Couldn't find one I liked. So I built it: ChessNotate - a free, offline-capable chess notation trainer with spaced repetition. And I built the entire thing without writing a single line of code myself. Here's what that actually looked like. The workflow: Claude Code + Claude Design + Reddit I'm more of an infra person, not a developer. I can read and understand the code code and spot when something's off — but I'm not sitting there writing TypeScript by hand. This project was a chance to see how far I could push Claude as a genuine engineering and design collaborator. The answer: very far.…

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