Spark & Anvil Privacy
A bright chess club room with long wooden tables of chessboards and a big magnifying glass, two tweens studying a position together

ScanForge

See a chess board you want to study? Paste it in — and study it.

Paste or drop in a screenshot of an online chess board (it reads a Lichess-style board best, cropped to the squares). ScanForge reads the position right on your device — nothing leaves it — then you check what it read and study it. Photos of a real board and diagrams from a book are not read yet. It's the front door to Scan · Read · Retain: scan a position here, learn the idea in GambitTales, and keep it in ShelfForge.

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How the scanner works

  1. Add a board. Paste a screenshot, or drop an image cropped to the squares.
  2. ScanForge reads it — on your device, using the chess pieces it knows. The picture never leaves this device.
  3. Check it. Whose move is it? Is it the right way up? Is every piece right? Tap a square to fix anything.
  4. Study & keep. Play the position out, then save it to your scans to come back to.

No timer, no streak, no score.

Reads boards drawn with the “cburnett” piece set (the Lichess default) best — for others, the Check step lets you fix any square. Piece art: cburnett by Colin M.L. Burnett (BSD-3-Clause).

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Chosen from what this app is about. What you open is remembered on this device only.