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New: a material calculator, a daily puzzle widget and an RSS feed

Count the material in any position, put the free daily chess puzzle on your club site or blog with one line of HTML, and follow new puzzles and articles by RSS.

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Three additions today, all free.

A material calculator

The new chess piece values page explains what each piece is worth (pawn 1, knight 3, bishop 3, rook 5, queen 9), when those numbers bend, and what research on strong players' games and on AlphaZero found. It has a calculator: enter the pieces each side has, or paste a position as a FEN, and it tells you who is ahead on material and by how much.

The daily puzzle on your own site

Chess clubs, coaches and bloggers can now show the ChessMess daily puzzle on their own pages. It's one line of HTML, the puzzle changes every day at midnight UTC, and visitors can open it on ChessMess to solve it. The widget has no ads and no analytics. The code to copy is on the daily puzzle widget page.

An RSS feed

The feed at https://www.chessmess.online/feed.xml lists new daily puzzles, articles, guides and news, newest first. Add it to any feed reader to get each day's puzzle without visiting the site.

Faster pages

The app now loads only the code each page needs, so the home page starts with less than half the JavaScript it used to, and its layout no longer jumps while it loads.

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