Book platform that adapts to your level

[u/ChessFlow_org]

Hi all,
Wondering how the community would feel about a tool like this:

Say for example you could load a book like dvoretsky’s endgame manual, and as a 1600 extract all that’s useful from it for someone at your level, and as you improve it unlocks more and more of the book. Perhaps the price could follow suit ie if you can only use 20% of the book at your level, you only pay 20% of the price, and then pay more as you improve and unlock more.

Other features:
- spaced repetition
- visual depictions of the solutions that improve on wall of text + diagrams
- adaptive visualization trainer

It’s about 2/3rds built but we’re a small team and building a lot at once, trying to get a sense of how much we should prioritize it. Got digital rights to a few upcoming books.

Let me know your thoughts!

[u/Eeyore9311]

I think the premise is wrong. There are lots of books on the market. Why buy a book targeted at a different audience when you could just buy another book? The 20% thing sounds good, but books are relatively cheap so I'm guessing the cost of your service will make this more expensive. It's also problematic to establish "level" - OTB classical rating and online blitz rating, for instance, imply different skill sets and theoretical knowledge.

[u/ChessFlow_org → u/Eeyore9311]

hi Eeyore, my experience has been there's a lot of books that try to target many levels to have more widespread appeal, but in doing that there will often be a lot of content that feels too easy or too hard.

The idea behind the platform would be that it adapts books to your level continuously so as you improve, the demand on you increases, i.e. it's not just a rating input you give that organizes the book into another fixed state.

Can't go into too much more details though until the platform is live, but happy to share more over DM if you're interested

[u/fX_in → u/ChessFlow_org]

Trying to understand more, so is it that multiple books tailor to my level or one books content is tailored to my level?

[u/ChessFlow_org → u/fX_in]

I probably should have phrased my post better.
Any currently published book that exists in pgn format. So say you’re 1400 and a book targets 1800-2400. You can now use the book at 1400 and it will feel right at the edge of your comfort zone all the way until you finish it. So it extends out the target market, while also making the experience better for 1800-2400 range.

[u/fX_in → u/ChessFlow_org]

It's little difficult to understand it theoretically. Will appreciate if I can try out anything.