Build a personal chess tutor from your own games with Grok Bot
His Grok Bot pulls every rapid game from the free Chess.com API, runs each through Stockfish 17, sorts errors into themes such as hung pieces and time trouble, writes a weekly lesson plan with examples from his games and books two study slots in his calendar.
Source
@JHCapital on X · 2026-10-13
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-20.
What they did
His Grok Bot pulls every rapid game from the free Chess.com API, runs each through Stockfish 17, sorts errors into themes such as hung pieces and time trouble, writes a weekly lesson plan with examples from his games and books two study slots in his calendar.
Result (as claimed)
The first run over 200 games found only 1 of 90 losses was on time and 160 blunders were hanging pieces; everything but the engine is free.
Tools they used
Cost: Grok Bot: from $30/mo.
Set it up
Gather your sources
Collect the papers, notes, links or files you want to work from in one place.
Load them into the tool
Open Grok Bot, Chess.com, Stockfish and add your sources. Keep the original files so you can check claims later.
Ask focused questions
Ask for summaries, comparisons or connections with citations to the source passages.
Verify and save
Spot check claims against the sources, then save the output as notes you can reuse.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Build a personal chess tutor from your own games with Grok Bot What the original author did: His Grok Bot pulls every rapid game from the free Chess.com API, runs each through Stockfish 17, sorts errors into themes such as hung pieces and time trouble, writes a weekly lesson plan with examples from his games and books two study slots in his calendar. Reported result (as claimed by the author): The first run over 200 games found only 1 of 90 losses was on time and 160 blunders were hanging pieces; everything but the engine is free. Source: https://x.com/JHCapital/status/2109909547439493475 Tools they used: Grok Bot, Chess.com, Stockfish Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Build a personal chess tutor from your own games with Grok Bot What the original author did: His Grok Bot pulls every rapid game from the free Chess.com API, runs each through Stockfish 17, sorts errors into themes such as hung pieces and time trouble, writes a weekly lesson plan with examples from his games and books two study slots in his calendar. Reported result (as claimed by the author): The first run over 200 games found only 1 of 90 losses was on time and 160 blunders were hanging pieces; everything but the engine is free. Source: https://x.com/JHCapital/status/2109909547439493475 Tools they used: Grok Bot, Chess.com, Stockfish Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Build a personal chess tutor from your own games with Grok Bot What the original author did: His Grok Bot pulls every rapid game from the free Chess.com API, runs each through Stockfish 17, sorts errors into themes such as hung pieces and time trouble, writes a weekly lesson plan with examples from his games and books two study slots in his calendar. Reported result (as claimed by the author): The first run over 200 games found only 1 of 90 losses was on time and 160 blunders were hanging pieces; everything but the engine is free. Source: https://x.com/JHCapital/status/2109909547439493475 Tools they used: Grok Bot, Chess.com, Stockfish Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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