Got tired of Chess.com's paywall so I built a free analyzer

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So I recently got back into chess and made a chess.com account but I got very frustrated at the paywall when I try to analyze my games more than once in a day.

I have a computer science background and have been looking for projects to make and since I had this problem, I decided to make a game analysis, trying to make it as similar to chess.com's as possible. The way it works is you enter PGN from a game, or import your chess.com/lichess games and analyze one of your past games.

If anyone wants to try it, the website is: chessitup.com

Would love feedback - I'm one person building this in my spare time. This is still a work in progress and I have a lot of more features I want to add. Let me know what would make it more useful for you.

I recently posted this on Reddit and every day, people have actually been using the website as well (200+ users) which has made me very motivated to make this even better.

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Just download stockfish for free.

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I tried it out. Nice work man! It functioned better for me than the chess.com version.

My feedback: is it possible for you to diddle the site a bit so it doesn’t override and pause my music (on an iPhone using safari) ?
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@trapazoidvoid wow didn't even think of that problem, i'll work on that thanks for bringing it up

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@trapazoidvoid I just added a mute/unmute button for mobile - it should be muted by default on mobile so it doesnt mess with any music or anything.

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this is cool

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analysis takes a while but it's fine