Chess Nerd

Chess Nerd is a static website of chess reference tools, data browsers, download pages, and lightweight analysis utilities published at https://chessnerd.net/.

Current Site

The home page currently links to these public tools:

• CCC Archive: Computer Chess Championship event PGNs with direct ZIP downloads.
• Chess.com API: A formatted reference for the Chess.com published-data API.
• Chess.com Titled Players: Browse titled Chess.com accounts with live profile details.
• ECO Codes: Hierarchical browser for the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings.
• Engine Database: Searchable engine catalog with language and release data.
• Engine Game: Play against the Lozza engine in the browser.
• Board Colors: Interactive board-palette designer with SVG/PNG export.
• FIDE 2200+ Players: Browser for FIDE-rated players meeting the 2200 threshold.
• PGN Downloads: Curated downloadable PGN collections.
• PGN Info: Client-side PGN statistics and metadata extraction.
• Software Catalog: Table of chess software projects with download and repository links.
• Stockfish Commits: Browse historical Stockfish commits and related artifacts.
• Titled Tuesday Archive: Organized Titled Tuesday download archive.
• Tournament Archive: Curated tournament PGNs with calculated FIDE categories.

There is also a standalone public page:

• Engine List: Alternate searchable engine listing page.

Stack

• Frontend: HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript.
• Data: Static JSON, text manifests, CSV/TSV, and PGN files.
• Maintenance scripts: Python and PowerShell utilities for scraping, reshaping, and regenerating site data.

Repo Layout

chessnerd/
├── css/                    # Shared styles
├── data/                   # Static datasets used by the tools
├── docs/                   # Reference notes and build context files
├── img/                    # Icons and site images
├── js/                     # Shared and tool-specific scripts
├── tools/                  # Data generation helpers
├── tours/                  # Archive/supporting assets
├── index.html              # Home page
├── *.html                  # Individual site tools/pages
├── *.py                    # Maintenance scripts
└── sitemap.xml             # Sitemap for the published site

Local Use

No build step is required.

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/ianrastall/chessnerd.git
cd chessnerd

2. Open index.html directly, or run a local static server:

python -m http.server 8000

3. Visit http://localhost:8000/.

Notes

• The site is intentionally static and deploys cleanly to GitHub Pages.
• Some pages rely on local JSON assets or third-party public APIs, so running through a local server is safer than opening files directly.
• tool-template.html is a development scaffold and is not part of the public site.