Living Chess Book

Study a chess book PDF you own on one screen: clickable moves, a live board, notes, an engine and an optional AI coach.

Living Chess Book turns a chess book PDF you own into a study workspace. The book's own pages stay as they are, and its moves and diagrams become clickable. • Click a move or a diagram to see it on a live board, and step through lines with the arrow keys. • Try your own moves, and see what the Stockfish engine thinks of them. • Solve diagrams and guess the book's moves, with what follows hidden on the page. • Keep a notebook beside the page. Notes and saved positions attach to the page by themselves. • Practise saved positions again at growing intervals. • Ask an AI coach about a position, if you connect a provider of your choice. Private by design Everything runs on your computer: the book, your notes and the engine. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you set up an AI provider and agree first, and then only to the provider you chose, with your own API key. There are no accounts, no analytics and no ads. The extension asks for no access to the websites you visit. Good to know • It works best with digital PDFs whose text can be selected. A scanned book needs a text layer, and is read less reliably. • It lists what it was unsure of, so that you can check and correct it. • Use it only with books you own. Free and open source under GPL-3.0-or-later: https://github.com/FARUK-YILDIRIM/living-chess-book