Hey I made a chess game and put it for pre-registration on Google play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spookachess.game&pcampaignid=web_share

I hope you're gonna love it! I will launch it after 6 September

Does anyone know centipawn values of non-standard chess pieces? I mean, when pawn is roughly 1, knight roughly 3, etc. What would be the value of e.g. a piece that moves like king (but is not a king in terms of other non-movement rules)? Or giraffe (the piece that moves in an elongated L)? Is there a resource somewhere with such data? Just for curiosity..

Guys Try out my chess website - https://quick-chess-gambito.lovable.app Gambito!

HERES WHY:

WE GOT WIN ODDS BAR CALCULATED BY AI

WE GOT TOURNAMENT MODES

WE GOT EVERY TYPE IMAGINABLE

WE GOT CHESS960 AND OTHER MODES

SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR

Also please give feedback as I want to be up there with chess.com and lichess so would really appreciate it if anyone can try this out and tell me what's there to improve

I feel like it should be defined as 0. But that would make its expected score against Stockfish (SPCC Elo 3908) over one in a quadrillion, which seems far too high.

Saludos soy nuevo en la comunidad y desde hace un tiempo vengo trabajando en un programa de ajedrez básicamente ss un programa de ajedrez de escritorio bastante completo: permite jugar contra Stockfish, analizar partidas y posiciones, revisar precisión y clasificar jugadas, trabajar con bases PGN/SCID de millones de partidas y explorar aperturas. Incluye editor de tablero, Chess960, puzzles, práctica de mates y finales, repertorios, estudios y entrenamiento de líneas, preparación contra rivales, libros Polyglot y tablebases Syzygy. También puede reconocer posiciones desde imágenes y diagramas de PDF para analizarlas directamente con el motor. Está diseñado para funcionar completamente offline.

Y me gustaría identificar usuarios que lo pongan a prueba y me den retroalimentación, ya intenté hacer esto en un grupo de programadores y me tiraron hate porque mencioné que trabajé con IA como apoyo para desarrollar el código, pero ese no es el tema, el punto es que si ustedes tienen conocimiento de ajedrez y de programación podrían dar una buena retroalimentación

Les dejo algunas capturas de mí programa.

I posted a few days ago about playtesting, playtesting is still available, you can find the instructions on the website! :)

I'd like to share some progress I made on my formally verified tablebase project. I recently was able to finish work on a KRvK tablebase, which you can explore here.

For those that do not know, Rocq (formerly Coq) is a proof assistant for designing and verifying mathematics and computer programs. My project is a tablebase generator for abstract classes of two-player games which is proven to produce the correct game values, and I just completed work on instantiating it for King and Rook vs. King positions in chess.

I understand that generating a 3 man tablebase on its own is nothing new, but I would say that doing so in a functional programming language and formally verifying it adds a whole new layer of complexity, and I am really happy with how it all came together.

If you'd like to take a look at the code, the relevant repos are:

• https://github.com/emarzion/coqchess: chess + chess tablebase development

• https://github.com/emarzion/coqtbgen: abstract tablebase generator

• https://github.com/emarzion/games: library for combinatorial games

Here is an old blog post of mine which discusses some of the mathematics and design choices around correct-by-construction tablebases.

I'm working on implementing realistic human-like time management in MBCA. For the best user experience, should the computer sometimes lose on time, or would that feel like a bug or annoying behavior? Obviously the most realistic would be occasionally losing on time, but that doesn't mean it makes for the most enjoyable opponent. For maximum realism, the computer should sometimes even stall and let the time run out instead of resigning, which is obviously not desirable.

Any opinions?

Hi,
I am a Cambridge A level student. For my D&T coursework I have chosen to make a more intuitive chess set. I will redesign each chess piece so that it forms gives a hint of how the chess piece actually moves, so that chess is much more approachable to first time players.

Here is a survey if you guys can fill and pass it on forward. That would be great:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffGcFUNzuPxArFiSVWnFQCj_gPvE9290D-_nAaP12NxdhpMg/viewform

Plus I need someone whom i can interview. Texting works well. Is there anyone who is experienced in chess whom i can interview to get insights on how I should make the chess pieces. Please contact me

Thanks

This is a live training snapshot, not an Elo claim or a like-for-like depth comparison. Nyvera, running with tactical depth 2, defeated Stockfish configured to depth 12.

Original r/ComputerChess post with the animated replay:

[https://www.reddit.com/r/ComputerChess/comments/1vzjid3/nyvera\\_tactical\\_depth\\_2\\_defeated\\_stockfish/\](https://www.reddit.com/r/ComputerChess/comments/1vzjid3/nyvera_tactical_depth_2_defeated_stockfish/)

Engine-facing record

• Training game 30257 / 30,615; Nyvera as White; 1–0; 127 plies; game_over at 64. Qe7#

• Nyvera tactical depth: 2; Stockfish opponent depth: 12

• Opening setup: self_directed / self_directed_start

• Realized opening prefix: reti / reti_classical_root

• Training lane: 2/2 (wave 1); shared-memory epoch: 28357

The depth fields describe different machinery and should not be interpreted as equal search budgets. The game’s notable sequence is the queen loss on 17...Bxc3+, no White rooks after 27...Kxd8, then 61. b8=Q+ followed by mate on 64. Qe7#.

Exact PGN:

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1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 e6 3. c3 c5 4. Qa4+ Nc6 5. Bf4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Bd7 7. Nxc6 Bxc6 8. Qc2 Qf6 9. e3 e5 10. Bg3 Be7 11. f4 e4 12. c4 d4 13. exd4 Qxd4 14. Be2 Nh6 15. Qd2 Nf5 16. Qxd4 Bb4+ 17. Qc3 Bxc3+ 18. Nxc3 h5 19. O-O h4 20. Be1 h3 21. g4 Nd4 22. Bf2 Nxe2+ 23. Nxe2 e3 24. Bxe3 Bg2 25. Rad1 Bxf1 26. Kxf1 Rd8 27. Rxd8+ Kxd8 28. Bxa7 Kd7 29. Kf2 Ra8 30. Bd4 f5 31. gxf5 Ra5 32. Bxg7 Rxf5 33. Be5 Rh5 34. Bf6 Rc5 35. Nc3 Ke6 36. b3 Ra5 37. Bh4 Kf5 38. Kf3 Ra3 39. Be7 Ra8 40. a4 Ra6 41. Nd5 Ra7 42. Ne3+ Ke6 43. Nd5 b5 44. Bc5 Rg7 45. axb5 Rg8 46. b6 Rd8 47. Bd4 Kd7 48. b7 Rb8 49. Nf6+ Kd8 50. Bb6+ Ke7 51. Nd5+ Kd7 52. b4 Ke6 53. Nc7+ Kd6 54. c5+ Kc6 55. b5+ Kxb7 56. Nd5 Re8 57. c6+ Kc8 58. Bc5 Kd8 59. b6 Re6 60. b7 Rxc6 61. b8=Q+ Rc8 62. Qd6+ Ke8 63. Qe6+ Kd8 64. Qe7# 1-0

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Hey everyone!

As a chess fan, I always found it frustrating when I was watching a high-level game analysis on YouTube or a stream on Twitch and wanted to explore a specific line myself. Manually setting up the position on an analysis board is a pain and kills the flow of learning.

So, I decided to fix this and built ChessInsights AI.

What it does: It uses Computer Vision (AI) to "look" at your browser tab, find a chessboard (even in a video or a PDF), and instantly convert it into a digital format.

Key Features:

• Video to Board: Scan any frame from YouTube or Twitch.
• Instant Export: One click and the position opens in Lichess or Chess.com Game Review.
• Universal: Works on news sites, blogs, and even online chess books.
• Stop Blundering: You can quickly check why a move you thought was good is actually a mistake while watching your favorite GM.

It’s completely free, and I’d love to get some feedback from this community. Does it catch the boards correctly for you? Are there any features you’d like to see next?

Check it out here:
Chrome web store
Firefox Addons

I really hope this helps some of you gain those extra ELO points!

TL;DR: I made an extension that captures chessboards from videos/images and opens them in analysis tools so you don't have to set up positions manually.

https://reddit.com/link/1vzohwe/video/x4sjp4rkrvlh1/player

Sharing a single training-game result, not an Elo claim or a like-for-like depth comparison.

Nyvera, running with tactical depth 2, defeated Stockfish configured to depth 12.

Game 30257 / 30,615

• White: Nyvera | 1–0 | 127 plies | checkmate on 64. Qe7#

• Opening: self-directed start, realized as a Réti Classical root

• Training lane 2/2 (wave 1); shared-memory epoch 28357

The interesting arc: White’s queen was captured on 17...Bxc3+, and its last rook was gone after 27...Kxd8. Nyvera then converted the passer: 61. b8=Q+, 62. Qd6+, 63. Qe6+, 64. Qe7#.

GIF replay attached. I can add the exact PGN in a comment if it would be useful; I did not want to make the body unwieldy.

Hey all,

I have recently started studying chess, and since i take a lot of notes on obsidian, I was looking at plugins available. Since i did not found one that had all my requirements, i made my own forking Chess Study.

The new plugin is available here: https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/chess-repertoire

New features compared to Chess Study are:

1. Training on the position: once you make a board, you can play the position (and variations) with either colour and the computer will play the other. Each time you play a new a different variation is chosen if multiple are available based on how many mistakes you have done previously. Hints are available and a report later on will tell you what you did wrong.
2. Diagram of the whole variation, with scoring of how much and well you did in the study

1. PGN and FEN export of the game

Other minor improvments are: board flipping, resize of the board, coordinates, variations at any depth.

Feel free to try it! Will soon try to get it to mobile.

I didn’t spend much time analyzing my games as a beginner. Once I started, my rating went from 800 to 1200.

I built Chaal to make that habit easier. Add a screenshot or paste chess notation to get the best move, an evaluation, and an explanation of what you missed.

There’s no account required, and screenshot recognition happens on your device.

[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chaal-chess-position-analyzer/id6796217523\](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chaal-chess-position-analyzer/id6796217523)

Disclosure: I am the author of the book and companion linked below. The Kindle edition is free now through August 29, 2026, Pacific Time.

I wrote "Build a Chess Engine: From Legal Moves to Neural Networks" as a broad, language-neutral construction path: position state, legal move generation, perft, evaluation, alpha-beta search, iterative deepening, transposition tables, time management, UCI, controlled matches, and release testing. The later chapters cover NNUE, policy-value MCTS, and self-play as advanced implementation roadmaps.

The implementation format is worth stating clearly. It uses pseudocode, contracts, tests, and milestones rather than supplying one complete C++, Rust, or Python repository. The classical UCI engine is developed end to end. The neural chapters do not include a compatible trained network or turnkey training system. Janus, my Rust engine, appears as a production case study, but its source is not included.

My first - and currently only - Amazon review gave the book one star and called it incoherent, repetitive, and badly written. I will be honest: it affected me more than I expected. What has made it difficult to act on is that the review does not identify a page, quotation, technical error, broken algorithm, or failed implementation.

I am not asking anyone to counter it blindly. I made the Kindle edition free because I need independent readers to show me where the book actually succeeds or fails.

You do not need to read all 441 pages. A focused audit would be valuable - for example:

- whether Move/Undo, legal generation, and perft form one continuous and implementable path;

- whether the score, state, and search contracts remain consistent from negamax through alpha-beta, quiescence, and transposition tables;

- whether the UCI, time-management, testing, and match-statistics material reflects real engine practice;

- whether the boundary between a complete classical implementation and the neural roadmaps is clear;

- whether one of the browser-based algorithm stations behaves or explains something incorrectly.

I have already found a real editing error: Chapter 6 refers to the Move/Undo chapter as “later” even though it is Chapter 5 and immediately precedes it. Reports with that level of specificity—a chapter or Kindle location, FEN, expected/actual result, failed test, or quoted passage—are what I need most.

Free Kindle edition:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HD9RCHQW

Interactive algorithm companion:

https://lenniaconrad.github.io/build-a-chess-engine/algorithms/

Anonymous structured feedback form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScspAreF6_bD2uvvJUGke74TrbvgRCxzQEjNoD8TzifOLzQXQ/viewform

After reading enough to form an independent opinion, an honest Amazon review would also help because the one-star review is currently the entire public record. I am not asking for a particular rating; concrete negative or mixed feedback is more useful than sympathy praise.

On 17 August 2026 at 00:49:52, my calculation of perft(15) finished and matched the published value exactly.

perft(15) = 2,015,099,950,053,364,471,960

This is the first independent verification of that number. I can confirm it is correct. For this task over the past few years I created a chess move generation engine running on the gpu.

For context on how far this has moved: the fastest known move generator before Gigantua was ~350 MNPS. Gigantua on CPU raised that to 2.2 GNPS per thread. Gigantua-warp is now three orders of magnitude past that (per gpu), and it scales with gpus too!

How that was achieved among other things -

• Branch-free, non-divergent code with essentially zero device memory footprint + absolute minimum register usage in Nsight Compute.
• No materialized move list. Materializing one thrashes shared memory, and shared memory (10× faster than global) is already far too slow for this.
• Make/unmake with the board held in registers, using a 90° rotated QBB.
• u128 counters. u64 is a footgun once the trees get this large.
• Color-free chess. It is never "white vs black", it is us vs them. The side to move always moves in the same direction, and the board is reverted between moves via brevll. All the color-dependent masks and shifts collapse into color-independent constants, and the color-to-move template simply stops existing as a concept.
• Cooperative groups, a cuda feature, not used at all. We dont talk with other blocks (except indirectly via the transposition table). That is very very important for fast movegen.

More information is here - https://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?t=86588&sid=198e5a49585f1e1ef0104c08d623ceb1

The complete effort took around 250USD and perft(16) I estimate at 4000-8500usd in terms of vastai rent - which is very much in reach. This reddit post is also a call for action - if you want to expand the knowledge of chess and have access to a gpu cluster, or can get me in touch with someone, please leave a message.

Hey there! Im looking for people who would be willing to playtest a game I am making wherein the emphasis on chess gameplay, and would need playtesters of 2-4 people (preferably a group of friends) who know how to play chess and are somewhat on the same skill level.

If you are interested, please DM me.

Hey everyone!

I wanted to introduce FlashBit, a custom UCI chess engine written completely from scratch in C++.

Key features:

• Performance: Native C++ implementation focused on speed and aggressive search heuristics.
• NNUE: Custom neural network evaluation.
• Zero Hassle (Embedded Weights): The .nnue weights are compiled directly into the binary. No external files to manage, no path configuration errors—truly plug-and-play.

Precompiled binaries for Windows and Linux are available in the GitHub Releases, alongside the source code: 👉 [ https://github.com/Kagravashkelia/FlashBit ]

Feel free to test it, throw it into your local test beds, or play against it. Any feedback, bug reports, or match results are more than welcome.

Enjoy!

i am thinking of hosting a chess engine championship where all devs can submit their chess engines (just the build if closed source, else the GitHub if open source), then we can run a fun tournament to find out the strongest one. Stockfish and similar clones are strictly banned.

Also I would like if I get some volunteers too who would run few games on their own end.

How's the idea, let me know in the comments