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Chess on good wood.

A tournament hall that fits on your desk. Weighted play, honest ratings, an engine that tells you what it saw — and a board worth staring at for four hours.

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Mikhailova
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Built for the four-hour game

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A board with grain

Milled walnut and maple, weighted Staunton pieces, engraved coordinates. Six board woods and four piece sets.

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Anika Roy You
1842 · India
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Position after 1.e4 c5 2.d4 d5
MOVEGAMESWHITE / DRAW / BLACKAVG
exd5184,2203834282478
Nf361,0433439272452
dxc512,8803133362401
c34,1172931402366
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Sicilian by habit, endgames by necessity. Playing the 21:30 arena most nights.

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Best win2244vs FM Aleksić
Avg game length38moves
Time per move7.4s−1.2s
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Where games are lost
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Flagged on time27%
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Opening preparation13%

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Board theme
Twelve surfaces, from tournament vinyl to cut marble. Applies everywhere.
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Design system

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Theme studio

Everything here is live and applies to the whole app — change a value and open Play or the board to see it. Nothing is saved between visits.

Themedark
Accentbrass
Surface tintwalnut
Display faceBodoni Moda
Body faceInter Tight
Numerals & clocksJetBrains Mono
Cornerssoft
Densityregular
Board woodwalnut
Piece setStaunton
Sound packWood
Grainnormal

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Chess on good wood.

The knight on f6 is doing more work than either rook, and the clock is not sympathetic.

Rated +18 Timeout
03:41 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 +0.42
Palette manager
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Colour
espresso 950
walnut 800
walnut 600
tan 400
brass 400
brass 300
parchment 100
oxblood 500
moss 500
square light
square dark

Brass is the only accent. Oxblood means loss, resignation, or danger; moss means a win or a safe state. Nothing else carries colour meaning.

Type

Bodoni Moda

Display · headings, player names on plates, result cards. Used at 20px and up only.

Inter Tight — body copy, buttons, labels. Tuned for dense panels beside a board.

JetBrains Mono — clocks, ratings, evaluations, and every move on the scoresheet.

DISPLAY / 48Checkmate
TITLE / 17Panel heading
BODY / 15Reads well at arm's length
MONO / 13Nxe5 Qxd3 22:14.6
LABEL / 10Engraved
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K
Kovalenko GM
2711 · Ukraine
04:31
14Nxe5Bxe5
15dxe5Qxd3