ChessGaze
Free Smart Chess Board App
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Turn any real chess board into a smart chess board. Real-time on-device piece detection, move tracking, chess clock, and PGN export. Record your games to review them later. Play against a bot just like a smart chess board. Or play your online lichess ranked games. And even broadcast your games to Lichess. No logins, completely free.
PH · launched Nov 6, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: ai chess training platforms · 62 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▲ +14% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Board Games
- Tech
- Games
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Could you build this?
Partial The app UI, clock, PGN export, and Lichess integration are buildable, but robust real-time piece recognition from camera images across arbitrary boards is a computer vision problem.
What it would actually take: The stack would combine a mobile camera pipeline, an on-device CV model for square and piece classification, and a chess move-validation layer to infer legal moves. The hard part is recognizing pieces reliably across board styles, lighting, and angles, which requires a labeled dataset and model training. That needs computer vision expertise and substantial labeled image data.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 217 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #95 of 218 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 371 days after the earliest competitor.
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- ChessAnalysis · ph · 2026-10-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ChessAnalyzer · ph · 2026-11-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- LIVE CHESS · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Chessstack · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- lookchess · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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