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ReplayChess — Play the critical position of a famous chess game against a friend, a rated opponent or Stockfish, then see where you left the grandmaster's line.

About ReplayChess

ReplayChess is a free, open-source chess platform where chess history is something you play rather than watch.

Every chess fan knows the moment: the video pauses at the critical position, you find the winning move, and then the narrator plays it for you. ReplayChess is the other half of that experience. Pick one of 50+ legends, from Morphy and Capablanca to Kasparov and Carlsen, choose a famous game and start from its decisive position. Play it out for real against a friend through a private invite link, a rating-matched opponent with live clocks, or Stockfish running as WebAssembly in your browser at four strengths. When the game ends you get a match rate against the original moves, a marker at the first move where you diverged, and a practice mode to retry the position.

There is also an ECO-coded encyclopedia of 3,600+ openings, each playable from its resulting position, plus tournaments where a group plays the same positions and compares results.

Free to play with no ads; a Player plan at $4.99/month unlocks the full catalogue. MIT-licensed on GitHub (replay-chess/chess-battle-turbo), built with Next.js 15, React 19, Prisma, Socket.IO and Stockfish WASM; installs as a PWA.

Who it is for
Club and online chess players (800-2000) who follow chess history channels, coaches who want to hand a student a specific position, and Next.js developers.
Problem it solves
Chess videos pause at the critical position, you find the winning move, and then the narrator plays the rest for you. You never practise converting the position against an opponent who is trying to stop you, and opening study stays a memorised move list.
The solution
Every famous position (50+ legends) and every one of 3,600+ ECO openings is playable from its critical/resulting position against a friend, a rating-matched opponent with live clocks, or Stockfish in the browser at four strengths. Afterwards you get a match rate against the original moves and the exact move where you diverged, plus a practice mode.
What makes it unique
It is free, ad-free and MIT-licensed (Next.js 15, React 19, Prisma, Socket.IO, Stockfish WASM), and it starts you inside the moment rather than at move one - the divergence report against the grandmaster's line is the core loop, not an add-on.

Starting price: $4.99 / month

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Features

  • Play as a legend

    Start from the decisive position of a famous game by one of 50+ legends and play it out for real.

Details

Platforms
  • Web
Pricing
  • Freemium
  • Subscription
  • Open source
Built for

Club and online chess players (800-2000) who follow chess history channels, coaches who want to hand a student a specific position, and Next.js developers.

Building since

2025

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Website performance

Recorded mobile lab measurements and finalized weekly standings from IndieTools Speed.

69GoodMobile Lighthouse

Measured · UTC

Load time
5.41 s
FCP
912 ms
LCP
11.69 s
CLS
0.002
TTFB
2 ms
TBT
218 ms
Speed index
4.57 s

These stored lab observations describe controlled test runs. They are not real-user Core Web Vitals or a guarantee of search rankings. Weekly standings below remain attached to their finalized edition.

Overall rank · 2026-W43
#830
Down 80 places
Best overall rank
#750
0 top 10 finishes
Best category rank
#18
0 category wins
Latest change
-2 score
Best score 69 / 100

Method: psi-mobile-two-sample-mean-v1 · 2 samples per reading. Only readings with the same recorded method and sample count share a chart. Lab results can vary between runs.

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Latest score

69 / 100

Higher is better
35 measurements

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Oct 1, 2026Oct 31, 2026

Weekly rank history

Track the product's finalized overall position on the IndieTools Speed leaderboard.

Range

MetricOverall rank

Latest rank

#830

Closer to #1 is better
2 weeks

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Oct 12, 2026Oct 19, 2026

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