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   Grandmaster Chess Online▲2

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   Chesscademy▲135

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   PlayChessOnline▲1

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   Chessmaster AI▲232

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    Treasure Chess▲73

    Play, create, & collect your favourite games of chess

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    ChessBoss – enhancing physical chessboards with computer vision▲83

    We built ChessBoss at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon this week. It didn’t make the top 10 but I thought Hacker News might think it’s pretty cool. https://devpost.com/software/chess-boss There are these really cool smart chessboards that can suggest moves and track your games... but they’re $400 and weigh 19 pounds. And of course there are apps that can analyze games but tracking and inputting games by hand is a huge pain. Or fully-digital chess apps... but board games are way more fun in real life! We wondered: “why can’t you just do that in software and bring the best…

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    Four-player chess in your browser. One link, no signup.

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    I built a tool to download your chess games▲6

    Hi HN, here is my humble weekend project. I couldn’t find any similar utilities online that would let me download all of my chess games, so I decided to make one. It’s definitely imperfect, so please let me know if you have any feedback!

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