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Offline Chess Puzzles Application (Lichess Database)

posted 1 year ago by sparrow (+3 / -0 )

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Project page: https://github.com/brianch/offline-chess-puzzles

Installation steps tested (mentioned since it wasn't obvious from link):

One way is to download and unzip a release for Linux or Windows here (~13MB zipped?): https://github.com/brianch/offline-chess-puzzles/releases/tag/v2.1.0

Then to download the Lichess puzzles database from here (~140MB zipped, ~600MB unzipped): https://database.lichess.org/#puzzles

Unzip .csv database file and put in puzzles folder / directory

Run one of the "offline-chess-puzzles" files.

Or, if you don't want to do the above you can compile from source, you'll need the Rust programming language and maybe a few more things (see readme?).

I've been wanting to see something like this for a while so it's a step in the right direction for me.

Canapeder

1 year ago 1 point (+1 / -0 ) 1 child

I couldnt unzip the csv file so I gave up. Dont care enough to figure it out.

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sparrow

1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child

hmm I mean all I did was download and click on it and it unzipped like any normal zipped directory - the file might be unzipped somewhere online

1 year ago 1 point (+1 / -0 )

Yeah it should be very simple. Dont know why winzip wouldnt unzip the file. /shrug

u/sparrow Yesterday I found this puzzle game that's fairly challenging.

https://www.puzzle-tents.com/

looks interesting thx for the recommendation. is there any way to download it to play offline? I enjoy being able to "own" the game by having a copy I can play whenever

Youre welcome. Unfortunately I dont think there's a way to download any of this website's games.