For creators

What ChessClerk is

A chess board with a clerk beside it: an AI you talk to that reads the board and checks every claim with our own Stockfish before it says it. It is the same job for a 300 player as for a 2700 player, and it never talks down.

Worth showing on camera

The cp-gap explorer and chessquirks. Every move with how much it gives away, by our Stockfish, next to how often each database plays it and how it scores. A chessquirk is a good move people play less, and score worse with, than a worse one.

☠️ Plunder. Every mistake your opponent made in the game, with how to punish it.

💬 Explain each move. One plain line from the clerk after every move, with what it cost.

The guided review. The clerk stops at each of your mistakes and asks what you were thinking before it says anything.

Puzzles by theme. A rating in every theme, so you are pushed hardest where you are strongest.

Novelties. Good moves nobody in the databases has played.

The King's ladder, Blindfold and the knight tours. Training you do in your head.

The whole list, in the app's own words, is on What ChessClerk does.

Clips, pictures and boards

A clip of a line. Tools > Diagram > Clip (GIF) makes a GIF of the line on the board, ready to post.

A picture of a position. Tools > Diagram downloads a picture (PNG, or SVG for print and thumbnails), with arrows and marks as drawn.

A board on your page. Tools > Diagram > Copy embed code gives you a board that steps through the game, to paste into a web page or a blog:

<iframe src="https://chessclerk.com/embed.html#pgn=..." width="400" height="470" style="border:0" title="ChessClerk board"></iframe>

A link to a position. Share a position's link and it opens ChessClerk on that position.

Talk to us

For a look before others, a code for your viewers, or anything else: chessclerk@gmail.com, subject "Creators".

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