AnkiWeb addon 615602402
Previews proposed chess improvements—Lichess and Chess.com importers, puzzle cards, and new board features—so they can be tested before joining the official release.
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 26.09 | 26.09.3+ | 2026-10-31 |
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Builds interactive chess flashcards that each hold a complete line, integrate Anki's grading, support PGN/FEN creation, desktop and iOS, plus syncing shared decks and tactical drilling.
Automatically checks weekly for and installs updates to chess note templates, exposes an API for added template functionality, and saves configuration options to templates.
Imports chess PGN game collections into Anki decks, creating opening-repertoire flashcards with board diagrams, annotations, and nested variations, while allowing re-imports without losing learning progress.
Imports PGN or TXT chess files and converts each game into an Anki flashcard, letting you choose the deck and note type.
Generates printable A4 and interactive Japanese crossword puzzles from Anki vocabulary in both directions, with customizable clues, previews, answer keys, history, and solved-note tagging.
Corrects review timestamps recorded while traveling so streaks, heatmaps, and daily counts fall on the right dates, with preview, automatic backups, history logging, and forced sync upload.
AnkiChess is TowelSniffer's project: github.com/TowelSniffer/Anki-Chess-2.0, with its Companion add-on. This add-on replaces neither of them: it only publishes, separately, some improvements proposed to that project, so they can be used and tested before they are part of an official AnkiChess release. Once they are, this add-on is no longer needed.
The improvements are proposed in these pull requests to the AnkiChess project:
Importer (Tools > Import into AnkiChess…)
.pgn files or paste PGN. Each chapter shows whether it is new, already imported or changed on Lichess; choose its side, note type and deck before importing. Opening lines, tactics, annotated games, key moves and structures go to their own subdecks. Update imported Lichess studies brings in the chapters that changed. When Lichess limits downloads, the add-on waits and tries again; with a Lichess token the limit applies to your account instead of your IP.Card improvements
This add-on carries a preview of the AnkiChess card template with the improvements above, and points your AnkiChess note types at it: only the script the cards load changes, their HTML, styling and settings stay. Some of them are options in the card's settings menu: Comments on Front, Board size (px) and Player Bars.
"preview_template": false in Tools > Add-ons > Config. Do it before removing this add-on; otherwise the preview stays until the Companion updates the template.Interface in English or Brazilian Portuguese. Tested with Anki 26.09.3.
download the apkg in releases and import to anki.
Can be handled automatically via the Companion Addon. Otherwise watch for new releases if you want to manage this yourself.
Refer to configuration tool tips or 'About' menu for information on config options, and helpful information for using the ankiChess note template.
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npm install
npm run build
uv is required for building the apkg file
uv venv
uv pip install genanki
Then run:
npm run build:anki
Build media only (no uv requirement)
npm run build:anki-media
files generated in 'dist-anki'