Observed arrival · 2026-10-19
ChessTold explains the move behind the engine line
A browser-based chess review tool turns finished-game PGNs and engine analysis into plain-English explanations of individual moves.
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◎Niche
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- Chess players reviewing finished games
- Worth noticing
- Each release must pass 20 hand-checked positions; the page reports a 1.8 MB WASM build running at depth 14.
Field notes
The review replays PGN moves for legality before running its local engine, then checks candidate ideas against the engine line before turning them into template sentences. The page reports a 1.8 MB WebAssembly build at depth 14, with median 27 ms and worst 91 ms per position in Chrome on an Apple-silicon laptop. It says each release must pass 20 hand-checked positions; the Lichess and Chess.com extension is still in development.
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