Hello chess lovers!

I'm Deep Mehta, an average chess player than happens to be a CS grad student. As a part of one of my courses, we built an AI to generate chess puzzles. To achieve this, we start with an end state and attempt to find the previous moves that make the most aesthetic sense - while also being the best move to play to ensure there's only 1 solution. The main goal is to be able to generate puzzles without having the need to search over the database for patterns. This also allows us to reach positions that may not be possible in a real game.

We generated a few puzzles using the AI and they're uploaded in the survey. We're looking to compare them against existing puzzles by 1:1 comparison. In the survey, there are images of puzzles - few of them are generated by our algorithm, while others are existing puzzles. We're attempting to find whether our puzzles receive the same response compared to the existing ones!

We would love to hear back from the community on how they feel about the puzzles and if you have any feedback for us!

The complete survey should take roughly 5 minutes (including time to solve the puzzles). There is no requirement of responses - you can choose to select your response for only 1 puzzle or complete all 7 - choice is yours.