Gambit

Gambit updates

What’s new

Release notes for every community update.

v1.8.0

Share a game or chart, and post your daily puzzle

Create a time-limited link to one game or your rating chart that anyone can open without a Gambit account. Paste a finished Chess.com daily puzzle into Discord. Game imports also tell you when chess.com is busy or a sync needs another try.

Share one game or chart

  • On a game review, or on the rating chart on your dashboard, choose Share a link. The link can last 1, 7 or 30 days. Copy it when it is created: Gambit stores only a fingerprint, so the address cannot be shown again.
  • Anyone with the link can open that page without signing in. A game link shows the two usernames, ratings, result, opening, moves and engine classifications. It leaves out leaks, your other games and your Gambit name.
  • A chart link shows that rating chart and your username, and nothing else of yours.
  • Public links name the account, so its ownership has to be proven first. If sharing is locked, prove the account under Settings, then Accounts.
  • Settings, then Data, then Shared links lists the links you made, how many times each was opened, and lets you revoke one. Closing your account removes them.

Post a Chess.com daily puzzle

  • Chess.com does not publish who solved the daily puzzle, so Gambit cannot post it on its own. After you finish, tap Share, then paste the whole message under Settings, then Discord.
  • You can also run /puzzle in Discord and paste the same message, once your Discord account is linked and you have a chess.com account in Gambit.
  • The post shows your chess.com name, hearts remaining, the result label and a link to that day's puzzle. The solution is not included, and extra text in the paste is dropped.
  • One post per puzzle day. Pasting again updates that message. If you have more than one chess.com account, choose which name to use. This is separate from sharing new games.

Clearer game imports

  • If chess.com is busy while you add or verify an account, the page asks you to try again in a minute instead of waiting.
  • A game sync that cannot finish shows the error on your accounts card, with a prompt to try again. Temporary problems are retried.
  • If chess.com repeatedly reports that an account cannot be found, nightly imports pause for that account. Sync now still tries again.
v1.7.0

More ways to understand and share your chess

This release adds richer game and opening insights, recurring blunder patterns, and new ways to compare progress with friends. You can connect a verified Lichess account, get an optional weekly digest, and see your latest games analysed sooner.

Connect and get started

  • Connect a Lichess account and verify ownership with the bio-token check.
  • New members see first-run guidance while their games import and analysis catches up.
  • Recently played games are prioritised ahead of older history during imports.

Understand your games

  • Find games from your own history that are most like the game you are reviewing.
  • Explore repeat opponents and see how your results against them develop.
  • Break down performance by time of day and game phase, and review your clock-use profile.
  • Follow longer-term trends, including rating changes carried in from before Gambit.

Build your opening picture

  • Explore opening results across rating bands using the Lichess opening table.
  • Compare your played repertoire with saved studies to spot where your games drift from your plans.

Practise and compare

  • See recurring blunder types grouped together so you can focus practice on patterns that repeat.
  • Compare drills, openings and leaks with players around your rating.
  • Connect with friends, compare profiles and results head-to-head, and review group discipline and leak leaderboards.

Keep up with your community

  • Opt in to a weekly email digest of your chess activity.
  • Opt in to nudges when a friend breaks one of their own rules; these notifications are optional.

A smoother review experience

  • Review pages are easier to navigate and more of the intended controls are clickable.
  • Non-standard chess variants are skipped during import and analysis so they do not distort your standard-chess figures.
v1.6.0

Clearer home page, the Gambit Discord, and a Data page

The home page explains how Gambit works and why it is free. A Gambit Discord invite that does not expire is linked from the public site and the app. Settings has a Data page for what we hold and for closing your account, and an admin can remove a non-admin member. Search engines can find the public pages. Your games, dashboard and settings stay off the sitemap.

A clearer home page

  • The home page leads with the move-four queen trap, then three steps: get an invite, connect chess.com, and wake up to drills built from your games.
  • Feature cards describe engine review, leaks, practice, openings, tactics, the position studio, the Discord feed and your data. They describe what Gambit already does.
  • A short note explains that Gambit is free because Wicked Sick Ltd gives time to pro-bono work.
  • One card, a global blunder comparison, is marked coming soon. That comparison is not in this release, and the openings and leaks pages are unchanged.

The Gambit Discord

  • The Gambit Discord is linked from the public header and footer, the home page, registration, the app sidebar and Bugs & ideas.
  • The invite does not expire. Use it to ask for a registration invite or to talk through feedback.
  • The community link is separate from connecting your own Discord account and from opting in to share games.

Your data and closing your account

  • Settings, then Data, explains what Gambit holds: your account, connected chess accounts, games and analysis, drills and practice history, and feedback you send. Games, analysis and drills stay visible only to you.
  • For a copy of your games and analysis, create a token under API & MCP access. For a full copy, ask through Bugs & ideas. The page links the privacy notice.
  • Close your account has moved from Profile to this Data page. Closing still deletes the account, connected chess accounts, games, analysis and API tokens immediately, and it cannot be undone.
  • Feedback you already sent stays unless you ask an admin to remove it. If you cannot sign in, email [email protected].

Removing a member

  • An admin can permanently remove a non-admin member from Admin, then Users, after typing REMOVE.
  • Removal deletes the same records as closing your own account. Admin accounts cannot be removed this way.

Public pages for search engines

  • The site publishes /sitemap.xml with the public home page and What's new, including each release that is already published. Sign-in pages, games, the dashboard and settings are left out.
  • robots.txt points crawlers at https://projectgambit.gg/sitemap.xml. It still allows crawlers to request pages, and it states that search, AI input and AI training may use what they can fetch.

Opening counts are not in the app yet

  • A maintainer tool can count opening lines in the public Lichess database. It writes counts only, and player names stay out of the output. Gambit does not read those counts yet.
v1.5.0

Richer Discord updates, easier chess.com linking and public release notes

Connect chess.com faster, follow shared games in Discord with more detail and new bot commands, and read what changed from the home page or What’s new. Clubs can run the bot on more than one Discord server at once.

Easier chess.com setup

  • Verified chess.com accounts are trusted when you add them, so you can start importing games without pasting a profile token.
  • Lichess still uses the bio-token ownership check. First claim still wins if two Gambit accounts try to use the same public handle.

Clearer shared game posts

  • Game announcements in Discord now show how many moves were played.
  • After the engine pass finishes, the same post is updated with move-quality detail, including when a brilliant move was found.
  • Sharing remains opt-in from your Discord settings; nothing in this release turns announcements on by itself.

More from the Discord bot

  • Use /games to browse stored games and /status to see ingestion and analysis progress for your linked accounts.
  • /rating now includes your chess.com rank where Gambit has it, and shows a seven-day rating average alongside your latest stored ratings.
  • /recent and private replies when you omit a player name behave as before. Use /help if you need a reminder.

Multiple club servers

  • Gambit can serve several Discord servers at once, each with its own configured channels and sharing rules.
  • Your personal link command still ties your Gambit account to you on the server where you run it.

Find What’s new more easily

  • Release notes for each community version are public on the site, with a link from the home page.
  • Signed-in players still see unread updates after login and can mark them as read; individual versions keep permanent links.
v1.4.0

Smoother boards, clearer analysis and Discord game sharing

Practice and review with easier board controls, clearer explanations of flagged mistakes, and feedback linked to the position you are studying. Filter opening insights to the games that matter, keep your practice history as analysis changes, and choose whether to share new games in Discord.

Easier board controls

  • Larger replay and promotion controls make boards easier to use on small screens. Practice layouts make better use of tablet space, and starting a game-review retry brings the board into view.
  • Choose a queen, rook, bishop or knight when promoting in opening practice and game-review retries. The choice appears over the board and supports keyboard focus, cancellation and Escape.
  • Practice boards show when a move is being checked and offer a retry if grading fails. Repeated input while checking cannot submit another move.
  • Replay updates are grouped during rapid navigation, with shorter move animations and support for reduced-motion preferences.

Understand and report a flagged mistake

  • Pattern explanations show the recorded evidence, why the position was flagged, and what the analysis cannot establish. Findings from older analysis versions are identified.
  • Personal-rule reminders are distinguished from tactical mistakes and kept separate from move flags on the board.
  • Report a position, question or filtered view from game review, own-game practice, leaks and openings. Choose whether to include context and preview exactly what will accompany your private report.
  • Reports stay private for review; they are not automatically published as community issues.

Study the right games

  • Filter opening insights by time control and date range before Gambit selects the latest 200 matching games. The page shows the sample used.
  • Opening filters stay in the page URL, and changing them preserves an unsaved study draft.

Reliable analysis and practice history

  • Incomplete pattern checks are labelled clearly. A failed check is not treated as finding no mistakes.
  • Workouts use completed checks for each theme so incomplete analysis does not make your progress look better than it is.
  • Own-game questions are tied to the game and analysis that produced them. When that evidence changes, older questions stop appearing in current practice while their previous answers remain in your history.
  • Some older own-game questions may temporarily disappear until replacement questions are generated. Curated practice remains available.

Choose what appears in Discord

  • The Discord page now offers Share new games and Stop sharing for verified chess.com accounts, explains what is shared, and links to the game-feed channel.
  • Sharing is opt-in and separate from linking your Discord account. Existing sharing choices are preserved, and your first import does not flood the channel with historical games.
  • Queued community posts recheck current sharing choices before sending, including withholding a queued weekly summary if a player included in it has stopped sharing.

Help us test

  • Try moving pieces, promotion and replay on your phone or tablet. Report your device and browser if a control is hard to reach or the board behaves unexpectedly.
  • Use the new report links for misleading mistake flags or irrelevant practice questions. Include the optional context when useful so we can find the exact example.
  • Tell us whether opening filters help you find useful games and whether the Discord sharing controls are clear.
v1.3.1

An easier way to connect Discord

Find Discord directly in the sidebar and follow three clear steps to connect your account. The linking page explains the bot’s commands and updates when linking succeeds, so you can move straight to checking your ratings and recent games.

Connect your account

  • Open Discord from the Community section of the sidebar, including the mobile menu.
  • Generate a private, short-lived code, open your club’s configured Discord server and paste your personal link command. Ask your club organiser for an invitation if you do not already have access.
  • The page checks for completion while your code is active and shows when your account is linked. Bot instructions now point to the sidebar too.

Try the bot

  • Use /rating for your latest stored ratings and /recent for your last five stored games per verified chess.com account. With no player name supplied, these replies are visible only to you.
  • Use /help to see the available commands and /unlink to disconnect. The bot can respond even when Discord shows it as offline.
  • Connecting Discord does not enable game announcements or change your existing sharing choices. Server availability and automated announcements depend on your club’s setup.
v1.3.0

Clearer practice, useful pattern controls and private feedback

Focus on the patterns that matter to you, practise questions that match your latest analysis, and follow your feedback privately. This update also improves move choices, Position Studio loading guidance and privacy during admin screen sharing. Public feedback summaries require separate setup and your permission.

Choose useful patterns

  • Filter Leaks to the last seven days, a category or a specific pattern, with your choices preserved as you navigate. Personal-rule reminders are separate from chess patterns.
  • Exclude or restore an individual rook-loss or queen-fork occurrence from pattern suggestions, with a reason such as an intentional trade or sacrifice. This records your preference; it does not declare the move correct.
  • Suggestions and themed workouts respect those choices. Original detections, raw totals, independent engine-blunder practice and recorded attempts remain intact.

Clearer, more reliable practice

  • Own-game drills explain the starting position and whose turn it is. After answering, optional diagrams show the original move and the engine-preferred alternative when legal move information is available.
  • Generated questions must still match your current analysis. Reanalysis can remove an outdated question from practice, and feedback uses the current evaluation. Old questions and attempts stay in your history; replacement questions are not automatically regenerated yet.
  • An open workout may restart when its supporting evidence or your pattern choices change. Previously recorded answers remain saved, even if the session’s displayed score restarts.
  • In tactics and opening-line practice, the notation move picker stays open after an automatic reply while its legal choices update, making multi-move and keyboard practice easier.

Guidance and interface fixes

  • Dashboard reminders follow your own minimum starting time and losing-streak settings. They are presented as personal rules rather than claims that a time control caused your mistakes.
  • Position Studio shows loading guidance and a working reload link while the board starts, including when its scripts fail to load. This gives you a recovery option instead of an unexplained blank board.
  • Admin user lists hide email addresses by default. Admins can reveal them deliberately, and navigation resets the hidden state to reduce accidental exposure during screen sharing.

Private feedback and the community hub

  • Bugs & ideas saves your report privately in Gambit without needing a GitHub account. Return to My feedback to read your report and follow its status; only you and Gambit admins can read the original.
  • For bugs and ideas, you can optionally allow an admin to prepare a separate, reviewed public summary. Your original report is not automatically copied to GitHub. Account and security reports stay private.
  • The public community hub brings together player guides, the roadmap, public issues and discussions. Public GitHub posts are separate from private in-app reports.
  • Publishing summaries from Gambit needs separate setup. Private reports and their history work without it. An Available status means an admin has verified deployment; a merged change or closed issue alone is not treated as available.
v1.2.0

More trustworthy analysis and practice from your own games

A round-up of 1 October’s improvements: clearer mistake detection, personal workouts, opening studies, broader tactics controls and private access to your chess data. These notes include work introduced earlier today; the larger puzzle collection and external client connections still have separate rollout steps.

More trustworthy analysis

  • Ordinary rook exchanges and legal queen recaptures are excluded from critical rook-loss warnings. Queen-fork warnings now check legal defensive replies.
  • Delaying Nf3 and not castling by move 15 are opening observations, not automatic critical mistakes. The early queen-trap warning is restricted to the specific pattern it can support.
  • Unsupported variants receive a clear analysis error instead of repeatedly retrying. Security dependencies and analysis reliability have also been maintained.

Work on your own mistakes

  • Practise engine-detected blunders in short workouts, with queen-fork and rook-safety sessions when reviewed evidence from your games supports the theme.
  • Recommendations link to their supporting game positions and ignore older, unreviewed detector flags. Unfinished sessions resume and existing practice history is retained.
  • See answer accuracy, quick recognition and recurrence in later games, with sample sizes and analysis coverage. A small or missing later sample is not presented as proof of improvement.

Study the openings you play

  • Opening summaries show your recorded openings by colour, whole-game results, analysis coverage and source games within the latest 200-game sample.
  • Review repeated costly decisions at their exact moves. Choose a 10, 15 or 20-move study window without treating it as a universal end to the opening.
  • Build private studies from game positions, save alternative lines and practise your chosen side. Add editable plan notes, legal move facts and opponent replies to examine; these are study prompts, not explanations of engine reasoning.

Tactics and clearer navigation

  • Multi-move tactics offer automatic opponent replies, theme filters, minimum and maximum puzzle ratings, and new or due review filters. Saved puzzles and opening lines use spaced practice.
  • A 480-puzzle Lichess collection is prepared across eight themes and three rating bands. It needs a separate import before the full collection is available; puzzle ratings are not playing ratings.
  • Navigation separates game review, own-game drills, tactics and opening repertoire, with direct links between them, clearer empty states and improved mobile layouts.

Private connections and community updates

  • Private read-only API and MCP support lets a trusted client request your verified accounts and stored analysis using expiring, revocable access. Gambit does not automatically upload games to an AI service. External connection checks remain to be completed.
  • Versioned What’s new notes and a welcome update after sign-in make unread community releases easier to find.

Prepared for rollout

  • Lichess account linking and resumable imports are built and merged. Ownership is verified through a profile challenge, and saved progress shows imported games, filtered records and resume controls. New Lichess connections remain disabled by default until rollout; no new login credentials are required.
v1.1.0

Stay up to date with Gambit

See what's new in Gambit when you sign in, so important community updates are easier to catch.

Release updates

  • A welcome update highlights new community release notes after you sign in.
  • Choose Continue to Gambit to mark updates as read, or view all releases to browse the full history.
v1.0.0

Your games, your practice, your next move

Our first community release brings game analysis, practice from your own mistakes, opening study plans and private connections to your chess data together in Gambit.

Explore and analyse

  • Set up a position in the studio, choose whose turn it is and ask Stockfish for the best move.
  • Import a board screenshot, check the recognised pieces and correct them before analysing.
  • Review your games with engine evaluations and replay the moments that matter.

Practise what matters

  • Work through your own engine-detected mistakes, with queen-fork and rook-safety workouts where reviewed game evidence supports the theme.
  • Track practice accuracy and recurring patterns in later games, with sample sizes and analysis coverage shown.
  • Build and train the openings you already play, with editable plan notes and legal move facts to help you study.

Help shape Gambit

  • Contribute board screenshots to help improve recognition.
  • Report bugs and suggest features directly from Bugs & ideas.
  • See ingestion and engine progress while your games are being processed.

Fixes and improvements

  • Ordinary rook exchanges are no longer flagged as critical rook losses.
  • Large analysis backfills are better protected against queue expiry.
  • Queen-fork flags now check legal defensive replies, and opening-style observations are separated from critical mistakes.
  • Unsupported chess variants receive a clear analysis error instead of repeatedly retrying as engine outages.

Connect your tools

  • Create expiring, read-only API or MCP tokens for a trusted client to access your own verified accounts and stored game analysis.
  • Revoke tokens in Settings at any time. Connecting a client is optional; Gambit does not automatically upload your games to an AI service.