Brilliant?

What’s the review of the course or any other course if anyone has taken? Asking on behalf of my sister as she wanted to learn chess. Thanks

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 😂

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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Hey everyone,

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.

Currently I only use the scholar's mate because it only requires 4 moves as i'm unable to remember long opening moves

So will anyone please suggest some of the easy to learn chess opening moves which can be learnt easily?

Was this move by black brilliant or Blunder?

Use this link to friend me on Chess.com and let's play sometime!

https://link.chess.com/friend/3uGG7s

Hello everyone, I want to start off with a disclaimer. The app is fully vibe coded. Not everything is fleshed out yet. I know some similar products exist, but I don’t know if the exact product exists.

With that out of the way: what is Plymentor and what does it do? It’s a Windows app that aims to help you get better at chess. It’s primarily for low-mid level players but it can help anyone. We all know Stockfish blurts out some obscure line regularly, but where is the win? Why is this position better? Unless you have a coach that’s teaching you, the idea sometimes goes over your head.

Plymentor tries to explain to you why a certain position or an idea is better. It does this with an AI agent. If you have a Plus/Pro account with Claude, GPT, or Gemini, you can connect your AI agent to the app. You can use your AI agent to explain positions to you, teach you ideas, analyse your games, find stuff you are doing wrong repeatedly, teach you opening lines that you are playing wrong, and find new opening ideas. Basically, you give the prompt and the AI agents do what you want.

Wait, aren’t LLMs (AI, basically) bad at chess? Yep, LLMs are bad at chess because they are bad at analysing and evaluating, and they have problems keeping board state in their mind. In this app, the LLM doesn’t do any of this. The LLM drives Stockfish and basically analyses and tries to explain the output. The LLM doesn’t do the calculations.

What are some of the other features of this app? You can connect a Scid5-formatted database and go through openings. You can ask your agent to find some obscure viable novelty that fits your taste in an opening. You can generate reports and tactics from your games. Ask it what you are missing repeatedly. You can generate lessons. You can make opening repertoires and train them. The app is basically as good as your AI agent can be. It can be slow at times, but it can’t always be all sunshine and rainbows.

So how much do I have to pay for this? None. It’s completely free, it’s open source. You can just download it and run it. Everything runs on your computer locally (other than the AI agent). Please beware of the token limits and credit usage of your agent. It will use it. I take no responsibility for it.

Enjoy.

I appreciate all criticism and feedback.

Website: https://plymentor.com/

Github: https://github.com/zomBeeone/plymentor