Recap: Noctie’s 2025 Editorial Highlights
Hey chess fans,
Time’s flying, so let’s hit pause and take a moment to look back at all the editorial content we’ve released so far in 2025.
🧑🎓 New Themes
Quick reminder, Themes consist of:
- Instructions – annotated positions or games
- Flashcards – short exercises with right/wrong answers
- Scenarios – positions to play out against the AI
Here’s what we’ve added so far in 2025:
💡 Checkmate Patterns
- Anastasia’s Mate
- Back-Rank Mate
- Smothered Mate
♟️ Checkmate Puzzles
- Mate in 1
- Mate in 2
🏁 Endgame Essentials
- Pawn Endgames 1
- The Lucena Position
- The Philidor Position
⚔️ Tactical Motifs
- Deflection
- Discovered Attack
- Fork
- Removing the Defender
- Trapped Piece
🏆 And most notably, we launched our most comprehensive course yet: Learn from World Champions — a curated journey through the games of every World Champion, from Paul Morphy to reigning champion Gukesh Dommaraju. Featuring instructive commentary by IM & FIDE Senior Trainer Jesper Hall.
👉 Check them out and let us know what topics you’d like us to cover next! We’re continually adding new content based on our users’ needs.
📖 New Repertoires
With last year’s revamp, Noctie now lets you practice openings by playing — not just memorizing lines. Select the opening you want to work on, and Noctie will play the opposing side, letting you learn by doing.
🐉 We also launched our first full opening repertoire: The Sicilian Dragon for Black. Tailored for players rated 1000–1800, this course offers a fully annotated guide to one of the most exciting and aggressive responses to 1.e4.
👉 Dive into the first chapter here and begin your journey to mastering the Sicilian Dragon.
📺 Noctie’s YouTube Channel
Big news! Earlier this year, we launched Noctie’s very own YouTube channel, where you’ll find:
- Walkthroughs of our Weekly Scenarios
- Tutorials on key features
- Fun chess Shorts for a quick laugh
We’re planning to expand the channel with more educational content that aligns with Noctie’s learning philosophy — so stay tuned!
👉 Subscribe here to make sure you don’t miss any of the exciting content ahead.
💭 Closing Thoughts
Your enthusiasm continues to shape Noctie. We’re a small team, working hard on building a more fun, interactive and effective way to learn chess.
We’re reliant on your feedback to steer the product in the right direction. If you haven’t already, take the chance to leave some feedback in the online feedback form or via our Discord
Thanks for learning with us 💜
// Andy & the Noctie.ai team