How I reached 2000 on Chess.com by studying solely with my own app
This post may be most relevant to people who play a lot of chess but either don’t study it at all, or study in a messy way and don’t see gains.
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eBook Reader reaches 10k users
The Chessvision.ai eBook Reader has just reached 10k users and that's a huge milestone.
Correcting opening mistakes with video explanations
In this post, I want to show you how I correct my opening mistakes.
Average number of captures per move by Elo rating from 2M chess games
Often when watching chess video lectures, I hear the advice of not capturing the opponent's piece in favor of putting more pressure, for example, to get a more decisive attack. Also, often we hear the phrase:
Lifetime Expectancy of Chess Pieces
A few weeks ago I was thinking about imbalances and asymmetries in chess, how they are created and how one can use them to their advantage. For example, trading a Bishop for a Knight, or the e-Pawn for the d-Pawn.
Chessvision.ai Video Search is there
The chessvision.ai family has a new member and this times it's all about chess videos.
Chessvision.ai eBook Reader: 8 months in
The chessvision.ai eBook Reader is live for just over 8 months now and it's time to share how it is doing and what updates did it get over that time.
chessvision-ai-bot predicts whose turn is it from highlighted squares
So far the bot has been predicting whose turn it is only from the post title. It was simply looking for phrases like "white to play", "for white", etc. Now it becomes much smarter.
chessvision-ai-bot recognizes game from the position
Quite often it happens that a post contains a position from a famous game. In such a case it nice to game a direct link to the game so it's easy to go and check it out, and this is what the bot can do now!
chessvision-ai-bot recognizes board orientation as humans do
The images the bot analyzes are sometimes from White player's point of view and sometimes from Black player's point of view, and the bot has to somehow guess that to correctly analyze the position.
chessvision-ai-bot introduces more hints
I added more hints to the bot. Now, besides piece and move hints it provides:
Chessvision.ai eBook Reader is launched
After the outstanding beta tests we have 3 months ago - huge thanks to all people who helped there, your are awesome, I couldn’t make it without your ideas and support! - the app is finally available.
chessvision-ai-bot links to Game Database
The bot now adds "games database" link near the analysis links if there are any games in the database with a recognized position.
Chessvision.ai eBook Reader: Beta Testing Invitation
A few months ago I proposed the idea of an app making chess eBooks interactive
chessvision-ai-bot provides hints
I had that idea that hints could be useful in bot's responses, so I added them just the previous night.
App Idea: make any chess eBook interactive
Several people suggested me, following my recently created chessvision.ai, to create an app where you can upload a chess ebook (let's say pdf or another popular format) and the app recognizes the positions from the diagrams in the book.
Chessvision.ai now available for Firefox
After launching chessvision.ai for Chrome, I started receiving messages to make it available for Firefox.
How I learned to deploy ML models to production
Running a service for chessvision.ai required having a Machine Learning model deployed in a production environment so that it can make predictions in real time upon user's request.
chessvision-ai-bot analyzes chess positions posted on Reddit
We're just few days after launching chessvision.ai and people reached me out both privately and in the comments suggesting that it'd be nice to build a bot for r/chess that can work with the app and analyze chess images posted on Reddit.
Chessvision.ai for Chrome: how it went viral
Finally it's ready to download - it's been a rough ride but so much fun.
How I started chessvision.ai?
People sometimes ask how did I get the idea for a browser extension that recognizes chess positions and how the algorithms work.