Blunderbase: A Personal Chess Database
Details
- External ID
- 49584085
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Blunderbase: A Personal Chess Database
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.32854864433811803
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Description
I made a free and open source chess database. It's useful for personal game study and gathering statistics across sites. Supports import from lichess, chess.com, FICS and PGN then runs Stockfish and Maia over every game.With it you can analyze your games, take notes on positions and look up openings. The self hosted web version includes a remote-runner that allows connecting engines running on other machines (finally, the CPUs of the AI server at work come to use :D) and an MCP server with a live board to push positions and comments to.Roadmap: iOS and Android companion apps, a sync service, multi-engine analysis, and a correspondence game mode supporting multiple long running calculations.Looking forward to feedback and critique.Docker, Windows, Mac: https://blunderbase.org Demo: https://demo.blunderbase.org (read-only)
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent games and chess tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- chess game database
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A personal chess database importing PGNs and calling local Stockfish and Maia CLI binaries/libraries with a web or desktop UI is well within vibe-coding scope.
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Competitors
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