Hi everyone,
I've written an openings explorer that shows you a wiki page for each opening as you play through the opening moves. It also highlights book moves on the board so you can see which continuations have entries.
All the data is taken from Wikibooks:Chess Opening Theory, and the database has over 1000 opening lines, with an article for every line.
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You can download the openings explorer free at my website here: http://ravenchess.org/openingsexplorer.php
If you decide to try it out, please let me know how you found it and if you have any suggestions or feedback.
I've written a chess openings explorer for Windows that shows you a detailed wiki page for each opening as you play it.
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Re: I've written a chess openings explorer for Windows that shows you a detailed wiki page for each opening as you play
Well done! Must have taken a while.
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Thanks Graham. I've had the idea for a few months now, but surprisingly it only took a few days to implement.
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Re: I've written a chess openings explorer for Windows that shows you a detailed wiki page for each opening as you play
Great work!! Congrats! Would be interesting to somehow link up with ECO or MCO or Chess InformantsJimmyRustles wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 12:41 am Hi everyone,
I've written an openings explorer that shows you a wiki page for each opening as you play through the opening moves. It also highlights book moves on the board so you can see which continuations have entries.
All the data is taken from Wikibooks:Chess Opening Theory, and the database has over 1000 opening lines, with an article for every line.
Screenshot:
Video:
You can download the openings explorer free at my website here: http://ravenchess.org/openingsexplorer.php
If you decide to try it out, please let me know how you found it and if you have any suggestions or feedback.
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Re: I've written a chess openings explorer for Windows that shows you a detailed wiki page for each opening as you play
Thanks for the positive feedback.supersharp77 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 3:48 amGreat work!! Congrats! Would be interesting to somehow link up with ECO or MCO or Chess InformantsJimmyRustles wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 12:41 am Hi everyone,
I've written an openings explorer that shows you a wiki page for each opening as you play through the opening moves. It also highlights book moves on the board so you can see which continuations have entries.
All the data is taken from Wikibooks:Chess Opening Theory, and the database has over 1000 opening lines, with an article for every line.
Screenshot:
Video:
You can download the openings explorer free at my website here: http://ravenchess.org/openingsexplorer.php
If you decide to try it out, please let me know how you found it and if you have any suggestions or feedback.
In Some Fashion...AR
I would really like to have a better database for this. Chess Opening Theory isn't bad and covers some lines very well, but it's very lacking on some lines and doesn't provide any information for some lines apart from theory tables.
I noticed that Wikipedia sometimes has much more detailed articles than Chess Opening Theory so I was planning to scrape Wikipedia and store both in the database, so for each line it can show the Wikipedia or the Chess Opening Theory page if they exist and there'd be tabs to select between them.
Alternatively, I'd like to find a big free encyclopedia of chess openings that has tens of thousands of lines that I could use.
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Re: I've written a chess openings explorer for Windows that shows you a detailed wiki page for each opening as you play
Does it run with Linux ?
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AMD Ryzen 1800x, Windows 10.
FIDE current ratings: standard 1913, rapid 1931
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Re: I've written a chess openings explorer for Windows that shows you a detailed wiki page for each opening as you play
Thanks for the new webtool. I looks great!
I'm looking for such a tool for a long time, so I can easily document my repertoire.
This is an other website with annotations for opening lines:
http://myweb.astate.edu/wpaulsen/chess/chess.htm
But the notation are in long algebraic notation and I find it difficult to navigate to the lines I want with this website.
I also find this website: http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/
I'm looking for such a tool for a long time, so I can easily document my repertoire.
This is an other website with annotations for opening lines:
http://myweb.astate.edu/wpaulsen/chess/chess.htm
But the notation are in long algebraic notation and I find it difficult to navigate to the lines I want with this website.
I also find this website: http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/
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Re: I've written a chess openings explorer for Windows that shows you a detailed wiki page for each opening as you play
I get a virus warning from Malwarebytes if I try to run raven_openings_explorer.exe
Trojan.Glupteba
It is probably a false virus alert from Malwarebytes.
Trojan.Glupteba
It is probably a false virus alert from Malwarebytes.
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Re: I've written a chess openings explorer for Windows that shows you a detailed wiki page for each opening as you play
I get a virus warning from Kaspersky when downloading already ...Jonathan003 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 1:28 pm I get a virus warning from Malwarebytes if I try to run raven_openings_explorer.exe
Trojan.Glupteba
It is probably a false virus alert from Malwarebytes.
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