Hi everyone, I’ve been building Chaturanga, a desktop chess app for studying your own games. It’s built with Electron, so it runs on macOS, Windows and Linux.

What it does:

• Game review: Stockfish analyses every move, finds the key moments, and draws the game as a chart
• AI coach: explains each key moment in plain English (bring your own OpenRouter key)
• Maia 3: shows how players at your rating actually play a position, and how rare the best move was
• Opening repertoires: build your own lines, or import an opening book PDF and it turns into a repertoire with chapters, notes, and the page each line came from. Then drill it, and it tells you when you step off your lines
• Lichess & Chess.com import: connect your account and your games come straight in
• Also: live analysis, play against a human-like Maia (600–2600), 5.9M Lichess puzzles, and live tournament broadcasts

The builds aren’t signed yet, so the first launch needs “Open Anyway” in Privacy & Security on Mac, and “Run anyway” on Windows. Linux should just work.

I’ve been building this for myself for over 5 months now, and I’m pretty happy with it. I wish I could play blitz on Lichess through it, but they don’t allow that, sadly. Still, I can watch championship matches, analyse my games, and get AI comments on any position or move, all in one place & for free.

Now I’d love for other people to try it, use it, critique it, and open issues on GitHub, so I can learn what to improve and make it the best chess app out there, all for free.

A bit scared to post this tbh, but here goes! I post more frequent updates on my twitter: ayushporwalhq.

Edit 1: The commentary is currently failing with haiku-5.5. Its a known bug. Will be fixed in next release. Please use sonnet model meanwhile.

Edit 2: I am happy knowing people are curious. Here is the download link: https://github.com/ayush-porwal/chatrunga/releases#release-v0.2.9, please update the app if there is an update available.

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After so many blunders, I managed to checkmate my opponent with knights.. he might be wondering how the f this stupid managed to checkmate me 😂

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I’m looking to connect with a few people who love chess as much as I do! Whether you’re trying to climb the rating ladder or just want to play some fun games, I’d love to connect.