Chess Position Analyzer Bot

A Telegram bot that analyzes chess positions from images using computer vision and AI. Users snap a photo of a chessboard and get instant position analysis, move suggestions, and tactical insights. Target users are chess players of all levels wanting quick position evaluation.

Chess interest has sustained elevated engagement since the Queen's Gambit bump and the Hans Niemann controversy kept the game in mainstream conversation, and phone-based analysis tools have real demand from casual players who don't want to paste FEN strings into Stockfish. Lichess and Chess.com both offer free analysis engines natively, which is the core competitive threat — any paying user has to prefer the friction-free photo input over logging into a platform they likely already use. The $500–3k/mo ceiling is realistic but limiting: this is almost certainly a freemium or low-ticket subscription play, and converting casual players to paid tiers is historically difficult when free alternatives are one tap away. The biggest risk is accuracy — chess position recognition from casual phone photos (skewed angles, poor lighting, non-standard sets) is a genuinely hard computer vision problem, and a bot that misreads the board even occasionally will bleed trust fast in a community that takes correctness seriously.