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#1 Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves

506 points | 89 comments | Oct 05, 2021 | by cbutner

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#2 Show HN: We used 890M chess games to make an interactive opening graph

295 points | 38 comments | Dec 01, 2019 | by chessroots

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#3 Show HN: King Thirteen: 2048 with chess pieces, in under 13 KB

269 points | 80 comments | Sep 23, 2024 | by animuchan

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#4 Show HN: Laser, a new game played on a chess board

218 points | 65 comments | Jul 11, 2023 | by xgboop

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#5 Show HN: Checkmate Champ – a training tool for chess tactics

192 points | 39 comments | Jan 20, 2024 | by Tommah

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#6 Show HN: I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight

155 points | 57 comments | Mar 29, 2025 | by freetonik

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#7 Show HN: I'm building the “chess.com” of speed cubing

140 points | 70 comments | May 01, 2022 | by kashnote

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#8 Show HN: Kung Fu Chess

140 points | 37 comments | Sep 21, 2019 | by paladin314159

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#9 Show HN: Noctie – A chess AI that predicts your rating

134 points | 102 comments | Nov 23, 2022 | by MereGurudev

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#10 Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required

124 points | 69 comments | Apr 06, 2020 | by shireboy

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#11 Show HN: Scannable Chess Scoresheets

117 points | 72 comments | Feb 14, 2019 | by indy7500

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#12 Show HN: Pretty-print your chess games using Prettier

103 points | 10 comments | Jan 04, 2025 | by gmasclet

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#13 Show HN: Chessboardify – Make the grid a chessboard

95 points | 33 comments | Aug 04, 2016 | by mapehe

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#14 Show HN: Matle – A Daily Chess Puzzle Inspired by Wordle

85 points | 38 comments | Feb 05, 2025 | by m88m

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#15 Show HN: ChessBoss – enhancing physical chessboards with computer vision

83 points | 36 comments | Oct 04, 2019 | by yeldarb

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#16 Show HN: Conway's Game of Chess

80 points | 21 comments | Sep 17, 2023 | by elesiuta

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#17 Show HN: A simple site to make chessboard images

79 points | 12 comments | Jan 03, 2020 | by einaregilsson

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#18 Show HN: Play scrabble, chess, checkers, etc with your friends by copying a url

69 points | 34 comments | Jul 02, 2012 | by mikeycgto

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#19 Show HN: Visualizing Chess Games

58 points | 10 comments | Aug 11, 2024 | by Labo333

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#20 Show HN: My weekend project - Chessboard picture recognition

51 points | 54 comments | Aug 05, 2011 | by matthiasb

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#21 Show HN: Open-sourced my Java chess AI high school project

51 points | 13 comments | Apr 20, 2013 | by FreshCode

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#22 Show HN: Termichess – Play chess in your terminal

50 points | 28 comments | Oct 07, 2024 | by krishnasangeeth

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#23 Show HN: Chessdream – Generate realistic chess positions with AI

45 points | 19 comments | May 16, 2024 | by MereGurudev

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#24 Show HN: Minesweeper on a chess board with chess pieces as mines

43 points | 22 comments | Jan 14, 2023 | by chedoku

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#25 Show HN: Play Chess Without Moving Pieces

36 points | 27 comments | Feb 03, 2017 | by fonosip

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#26 Show HN: A Serverless Chess Engine running in 4 different clouds

36 points | 5 comments | Sep 25, 2020 | by dilox

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#27 Show HN: I made a screensaver that solves chess puzzles

34 points | 11 comments | Jan 01, 2025 | by binaryinitials

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#28 Show HN: Chess Twist

29 points | 36 comments | May 31, 2024 | by frading

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#29 Show HN: ChessMe board game 2nd Edition – chess without board

21 points | 3 comments | Dec 04, 2015 | by mancereus

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#30 Show HN: A <chess-board> HTML element for any web page or app

19 points | 2 comments | Apr 06, 2020 | by spankalee

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#31 Show HN: Monsiv – A lightweight alternative to Chess

17 points | 7 comments | May 29, 2018 | by monsiv

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#32 Show HN: Animate Any Chess Opening

17 points | 6 comments | Jun 15, 2021 | by jstastny

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#33 Show HN: Online chessboard without any rules

16 points | 4 comments | Jan 26, 2023 | by lionis

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#34 Show HN: Noctie – Chess practice using humanlike AI

13 points | 1 comments | Apr 04, 2024 | by MereGurudev

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#35 Show HN: My Electronic Chessboard That Removes the Concept of Turns

12 points | 1 comments | Dec 01, 2024 | by misprit7

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#36 Show HN: Ebook.chessvision.ai – AI that makes chess eBooks interactive

12 points | 1 comments | Jan 19, 2020 | by pkacprzak

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#37 Show HN: Convert chess PGN to beautiful PDF in seconds

11 points | 0 comments | May 30, 2022 | by pkacprzak

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#38 Show HN: 3D chess game done entirely in HTML/CSS/javascript (webkit only)

10 points | 2 comments | Dec 05, 2012 | by JulianGarnier

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#39 Show HN: Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine

10 points | 1 comments | Dec 01, 2020 | by reidmcy

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#40 Show HN: Cicada, a hobby chess engine written in Rust

10 points | 0 comments | Mar 22, 2017 | by kayali

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#41 Show HN: Search YouTube chess videos by in-video content

9 points | 9 comments | Nov 17, 2020 | by pkacprzak

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#42 Show HN: Chess bot predicts your blunders to beat you faster

8 points | 2 comments | Apr 13, 2024 | by Elyasmehtabu

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#43 Show HN: Esochess, customized chess (3/4 player, capablanca, two king) in C/WASM

8 points | 2 comments | Jan 08, 2021 | by thomasqm

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#44 Show HN: Parallel Chess engine written in Haskell

8 points | 0 comments | Jun 26, 2017 | by rastapasta42

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#45 Show HN: SpicyChess – A Chess tactics training app based on spaced repetition

7 points | 8 comments | Apr 24, 2023 | by creature_x

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#46 Show HN: Prompt Engineering Chess

7 points | 2 comments | Feb 24, 2023 | by zackwitten

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#47 Show HN: Printing Chess Boards in a Terminal

7 points | 1 comments | Aug 15, 2024 | by GeertB

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#48 Show HN: ChessGPT – have a bad game of chess with ChatGPT

7 points | 1 comments | Apr 20, 2023 | by iamflimflam1

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#49 Show HN: Chess-LLM, using constrained-generation to force LLMs to battle it out

7 points | 0 comments | Mar 14, 2024 | by arkano

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#50 Show HN: I designed a printable parametric open source chess set

7 points | 0 comments | Feb 07, 2012 | by iamwil

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#51 Show HN: Zilch · Level up your skills coding Ping Pong bots, Chess bots and more

6 points | 4 comments | Feb 12, 2024 | by bradenhs

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#52 Show HN: Chess in Elm

6 points | 3 comments | Nov 26, 2016 | by dsiegel2275

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#53 Show HN: Printable Chess Set

6 points | 2 comments | Feb 04, 2022 | by nefitty

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#54 Show HN: Chessterm – Rust-based terminal chess engine for chess notation

6 points | 1 comments | Feb 04, 2025 | by gantengx

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#55 Show HN: Risky pre-moves in online chess

6 points | 1 comments | Sep 19, 2023 | by jdwg

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#56 Show HN: Play online chess with real chess board

6 points | 1 comments | Aug 14, 2021 | by karayaman

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#57 Show HN: I built a tool to download your chess games

6 points | 0 comments | Jul 14, 2023 | by janalsncm

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#58 Show HN: AI that converts chess eBooks to interactive ones

6 points | 0 comments | Aug 30, 2020 | by pkacprzak

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#59 Show HN: Chesskool – Platform for Chess Improvement

5 points | 6 comments | Jun 06, 2022 | by gabceboli

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#60 Show HN: Play against well-known chess players' openings

5 points | 3 comments | Oct 17, 2022 | by berinateni

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#61 Show HN: A site I made to train my chess visualization

5 points | 3 comments | Nov 02, 2021 | by marcusbuffett

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#62 Show HN: The better the chess player is the fewer captures per move they make

5 points | 3 comments | Dec 12, 2020 | by pkacprzak

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#63 Show HN: Chess Puzzle Bot – Puzzles vs. Stockfish

5 points | 2 comments | Oct 04, 2024 | by 1bit_e

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#64 Show HN: 280x280 Massively Multiplayer chess (Desktop only)

5 points | 1 comments | Sep 26, 2024 | by devttyeu

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#65 Show HN: ChessMonitor – Analytics for Chess (connect Lichess or Chess.com)

5 points | 1 comments | Jan 04, 2023 | by ThomasCM

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#66 Show HN: Room.ai: Play chess and video chat on one page (no signup needed)

5 points | 1 comments | Dec 25, 2020 | by shuri

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#67 Show HN: I Made a minimalist chess clock for android

5 points | 0 comments | Jan 30, 2014 | by aleksanb

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#68 Show HN: Porting a Classic 1970s Chess Program to Modern Hardware

5 points | 0 comments | May 20, 2020 | by billforsternz

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#69 Show HN: (steinitz) Tkinter chess interface to FICS in python

5 points | 0 comments | Jul 31, 2017 | by iogf

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#70 Show HN: Export “Chess with Friends” Games as PGN

5 points | 0 comments | Jan 31, 2016 | by SuperKlaus

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#71 Show HN: Chess2 – Play live online chess against a friend, or a chess engine

4 points | 11 comments | Mar 02, 2023 | by jrudesill

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#72 Show HN: Chess Fun For Little Ones – An interactive book to introduce chess

4 points | 4 comments | Sep 03, 2024 | by tf2_pyro

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#73 Show HN: BraiMax Chess – Bootstrapped personalized chess training Web App MVP

4 points | 4 comments | Apr 01, 2023 | by danmaz74

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#74 Show HN: OTBChess - Community for people who like to play chess in real life.

4 points | 3 comments | May 22, 2021 | by rasulkireev

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#75 Show HN: Multichess – Massive Multiplayer Online Chess Game

4 points | 3 comments | Dec 18, 2015 | by thebora

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#76 Show HN: Simple website to play Chess – what do you think?

4 points | 2 comments | Jul 16, 2014 | by ravipatel

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#77 Show HN: chessable - chess built with HTML5 Canvas. Any feedback?

4 points | 2 comments | Mar 22, 2012 | by austinbirch

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#78 Show HN: Alphazero chess re-analysis

4 points | 2 comments | Dec 12, 2017 | by CYHSM

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#79 Show HN: Chexs.io – play hexagonal chess online

4 points | 1 comments | Jul 17, 2023 | by surprisetalk

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#80 Show HN: A chess repertoire builder written in Rust

4 points | 1 comments | Dec 07, 2020 | by zcesur

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#81 Show HN: A chess board element that works in any framework

4 points | 1 comments | Aug 19, 2020 | by spankalee

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#82 Show HN: Protochess.com – Online multiplayer chess with custom pieces/boards

4 points | 1 comments | Jul 04, 2020 | by raytran

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#83 Show HN: Two player game of Half Board Chess

4 points | 1 comments | Apr 22, 2017 | by navalsaini

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#84 Show HN: ChessGPT

4 points | 0 comments | Nov 22, 2024 | by iamflimflam1

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#85 Show HN: PawnPush, daily chess bots with unique personalities and play styles

4 points | 0 comments | Mar 21, 2024 | by ageitgey

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#86 Show HN: Integrating puzzle rush and spaced repetitions for chess training

4 points | 0 comments | Apr 02, 2023 | by danmaz74

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#87 Show HN: On-Chain Chess Smart Contract Breakdown

4 points | 0 comments | Apr 20, 2022 | by anupamchugh

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#88 Show HN: Knight Maneuver – A chess mini game

4 points | 0 comments | May 04, 2020 | by ArneVogel

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#89 Show HN: Pawnbarian, a chess-deckbuilding-roguelike game I made for 7DRL gamejam

4 points | 0 comments | Mar 16, 2019 | by j_4

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#90 Show HN: Space Invaders chess

4 points | 0 comments | Aug 09, 2017 | by navalsaini

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#91 Show HN: A chess engine written in Go

4 points | 0 comments | Mar 17, 2016 | by fdomig

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#92 Show HN: YouTube Channel – ChessGoddess

3 points | 6 comments | Jul 16, 2023 | by BrianKamrany

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#93 Show HN: Think Ahead Chess – A chess variant with n turns of incomplete info

3 points | 6 comments | Mar 23, 2022 | by miej

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#94 Show HN: Fast Chess (Made with ChatGPT)

3 points | 4 comments | Feb 19, 2025 | by logicallee

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#95 Show HN: libpgn – Tiny C library for parsing PGN files (Chess Game Records)

3 points | 3 comments | Sep 04, 2024 | by youkwhd

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#96 Show HN: I built a chess training website (and open sourced it)

3 points | 3 comments | Apr 03, 2024 | by KeeghanM

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#97 Show HN: A simple but effective chess engine in JavaScript

3 points | 3 comments | May 09, 2022 | by zamfofex

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#98 Show HN: Free Chess Club: Play online chess with over 800,000 players

3 points | 3 comments | Dec 10, 2017 | by freechessclub

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#99 Show HN: Fun Crazy Chess Variation

3 points | 3 comments | Dec 31, 2016 | by fonosip

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#100 Show HN: Memory Chess – Spatial memory training with randomized chess boards

3 points | 2 comments | Apr 25, 2025 | by bingcheng45

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