Changelog
What's new on ChessHunter
New features, tools and guides, newest first. Have an idea? Tell us on the contact page.
RSS feedNovember 2026
- New
Cheater check: did you play a cheater?
Enter your Chess.com or Lichess username to see which of your opponents were later banned for fair play or terms of service violations, your score against them and the rating points those games cost you, with your rating curve with and without them. Share your result or download the list as a CSV.
Check my games - Guide
How chess cheating detection works
A plain-language guide to how Chess.com, Lichess and over-the-board arbiters catch cheaters, what happens to your rating, and why one high-accuracy game proves nothing.
Read the guide - New
Over-the-board tournaments
Browse the over-the-board tournaments in our game databases, filter them by country, year and time control, and open one to see its standings and every player. The latest tournaments are also on the home page.
Browse tournaments - New
Free scouting report on every player page
Open any player profile to get a scouting report: openings to target and to avoid, how they handle the clock, a Stockfish review of their latest games (accuracy, blunders, time-trouble mistakes) and a player card with a strength score you can share.
Find a player - Improved
One control bar under every chessboard
Every board on the site now has the same full-width bar to flip the board and step through moves, and it works in light mode too.
- New
Chess board editor
Drag and drop pieces to set up any position, choose the side to move and castling rights, copy the FEN and analyse it with Stockfish. The editor is also built into the best move finder and the Playground.
Open the board editor - Guide
How to set up a chess board
A step-by-step guide with diagrams: where each piece goes, the "queen on her color" rule and the most common setup mistakes.
Read the guide
October 2026
- Guide
The most popular chess openings, year by year
An animated race of the openings played by strong players over the years, with filters to explore the trends yourself.
Watch the race - Guide
Chess titles in order
From Candidate Master to Grandmaster: what each FIDE title requires and how many players hold it today.
Read the article - Improved
Player pages show their games straight away
A player's recent games now appear as soon as the profile opens, and the most visited players are refreshed every night.
- New
Best move finder
Paste a FEN or PGN, or set up the board, and Stockfish shows you the three best moves in the position.
Find the best move - Improved
Game Plan with concrete lines
The Game Plan of a hunting analysis now gives concrete opening lines drawn from both players' repertoires, plus the typical plans to aim for.
Start a hunt - New
FIDE rating calculator and free tools
Enter your rating, K-factor and opponents to see your rating change after a tournament. All free tools are now grouped on one page.
Calculate your rating - New
Chess players by country
Browse the rated players of every chess federation, ranked by FIDE rating, with related players on each profile.
Browse federations - Guide
Average FIDE rating by country
Which countries have the strongest players on average? A ranking built from the latest FIDE rating list, with the data to download.
See the ranking - Improved
Profile photos from Chess.com
When FIDE has no photo of a player, their profile now shows their Chess.com avatar.
- Guide
Guides to Elo ratings and PGN files
What your chess rating really means, and how to download your games from Chess.com as a PGN to review them.
Read the Elo guide
September 2026
- New
ChessHunter Discord community
Join the Discord to share your hunts, suggest features and talk preparation with other players.
Join the Discord - Improved
Better on mobile
A new mobile menu, analysis pages that fit small screens and game histories that load progressively.
- Improved
Top players on the home page
Jump straight to the profiles of the world's ten best players from the home page.
- New
Playground: a free analysis board
Analyse any position with Stockfish, explore openings with master games and see your repertoire build itself as you play moves. No account needed.
Open the Playground - Guide
The ChessHunter blog
Practical guides to preparing for an opponent, finding weaknesses in their openings and using a chess engine.
Visit the blog - Improved
Recent searches
The players you looked up recently are remembered, so you can get back to them in one click.
- Improved
A stronger analysis board
The three best Stockfish lines, master games from players rated 2400+, move previews in the repertoire and a PGN copy button, all next to the opponent's games.
- New
Studio view for hunting analyses
Explore an analysis in synchronized panels: the board, both players' repertoires and their games move together, with opening trees twice as deep as before.
- New
How it works
New pages explain how a hunting analysis is built, where the data comes from and how to reach us.
Read the methodology
August 2026
- New
Head-to-head and transpositions
Hunting analyses now show your past games against the opponent, spot openings that transpose into each other and include engine evaluations and recent trends.
- Improved
Failed analyses no longer count
If a hunting analysis fails, it is given back to your quota. Your own hunts now appear on the home page.
- Improved
A new home page
See a sample hunting report before you start, with the advanced filters tucked away until you need them.
- New
Repertoire and insights on player pages
Every player profile now shows their opening repertoire, key insights and their full game history, including games from The Week in Chess.
Find a player - Improved
Email when your analysis is ready
No need to wait on the page: we email you a link as soon as your hunting analysis is done.
July 2026
- Improved
Look around without an account
Player pages and the sample report are open to everyone, no sign-up required.
May 2026
- Improved
All Chess.com accounts of a player
When a player has several Chess.com accounts, the games of all of them are now included.
April 2026
- Improved
Over 10 million games, search by FIDE ID
More than 10 million over-the-board games are indexed, and you can find a player by typing their FIDE ID.