{"privacyPage":{"title":"Privacy Policy","intro":"ScanChess (\"we\", \"us\") respects and protects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and disclose your information when you use the ScanChess website and browser extension (the \"Service\").","sections":[{"heading":"Information We Collect","paragraphs":["To provide our chess-scanning service, we collect the following information:"],"bullets":["Account information: When you create an account with an email address and password, or sign in with Google (or with Apple, for accounts that use it), we receive your email address and a basic account identifier to create and manage your account.","Content you upload: Photos of scoresheets, chessboards, and related images you capture or upload. Scoresheet images are sent to an AI model provider to be read into PGN. Board images are sent first to Chessvision.ai's recognition service; if it is unavailable or cannot read the board, they go to our own recognizer and then to an AI model provider. The result is standard chess notation (PGN or FEN).","Games and analysis: The games you save or import, the engine analysis stored with them, practice positions built from your mistakes, opening repertoires, positions you save, and the reports you create.","AI explanations: When you ask for an explanation of a game, a position or an event report, the moves, positions and engine lines it is based on are sent to an AI model provider to write it, and the text is kept with your game, position or report.","Linked online accounts and scouting: If you link a Lichess or Chess.com username, we read that account's public games through the sites' public APIs and keep a summary of the statistics with your account; removing the link deletes it. An opponent scouting report reads the opponent's public games the same way and is kept in your account.","Club workspaces: Coaches and clubs can keep a roster of the players they teach — name, the names they appear under on scoresheets, FIDE ID, rating and whether the player is a junior — together with the games and reports linked to them.","Shared links: A public link to a game or a report is created by you, shows only what that page shows, and can be withdrawn at any time. Report links also expire on the date you choose.","Credits and transactions: Your credit balance, purchase records, and consumption history, used for billing and abuse prevention.","Usage and device information: For security and product improvement, we may log basic data such as device type, browser or extension version, and error reports.","Website analytics: Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity may collect page views, referral sources, approximate city-level location and page interactions under the cookie rules and choices described below."]},{"id":"browser-extension","heading":"Browser Extension Sign-in and Scanning","paragraphs":["From version 1.6 an account is optional: it is needed only for the server reader and for saving positions. If you connect your ScanChess website account, a session credential and basic profile stay in protected extension storage and are cleared on disconnection or expiry. Earlier releases may offer popup sign-in; passwords are sent only to the ScanChess authentication API and are not stored.","The extension captures visible webpage content only after you request a board scan. Selection and cropping happen on your device, and from version 1.6 the board is read there too: that image is not sent anywhere. Only when you choose the server reader (and in versions before 1.6, for every scan) is the selected image sent to api.scanchess.com and the board-recognition providers described in this policy (Chessvision.ai, our own recognizer, an AI model provider) for recognition.","Scan progress and results use browser session storage and clear when the session ends or you disconnect. Saved positions are stored in your ScanChess account. The extension does not collect browsing history in the background or include analytics scripts.","Opening a result on scanchess.com is optional. The transfer is bound to its destination and browser tab and expires after 30 minutes. Account, image and notation data are used only for the disclosed account connection, recognition, review and saving features."]},{"heading":"How We Use Information","bullets":["To provide core functionality: recognizing your uploaded images, analyzing your games, and writing the explanations and reports you ask for.","To manage your account, credit balance, and transactions.","To keep the Service secure and prevent fraud and abuse.","To respond to your support requests and improve the product.","To train and test our own image-recognition models, such as the check in your browser that tells a chessboard photo from a scoresheet. For this we keep reduced-size copies of the photos you upload, apart from your account. They are never published, and the trained models contain no images. Email {{email}} to have your photos left out or removed.","To build your insights and practice positions from the games in your account."]},{"heading":"Third-Party Services","paragraphs":["We share the minimum necessary data with the following third parties to operate the Service:"],"bullets":["AI model providers (currently Google, Anthropic and OpenAI): the images you upload for recognition, and the moves, positions and engine lines behind an AI explanation you ask for, are sent to them for processing.","Chessvision.ai: board images you upload are sent to Chessvision.ai's recognition service to be read into a FEN. If it is unavailable or cannot read the board, our own recognizer (operated by us) or an AI model provider reads it instead.","Lichess and Chess.com: when you link a username, ask for a scouting report or use Chess Wrapped, that account's public games are requested from their public APIs.","Google Sign-In (and Sign in with Apple, for accounts that use it): used for authentication.","Waffo (Waffo Pancake): The merchant of record for web subscriptions. Your payment details are collected and processed by Waffo — we never see or store your card details. We receive only the order id, billing email, and subscription status, which we use to grant Pro.","Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity: Website analytics subject to the cookie rules and choices described below.","Cloudflare: Hosting, CDN, and email routing for the site and API, which processes the connection logs this requires.","Sentry: Error reports from the site and API, so we can fix what breaks: the error, where in our code it happened, the page address without its query or any share-link token, and your browser and operating system. No account details, cookies, IP address or uploaded content are sent. Processed by Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.) in the United States.","We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use it for advertising unrelated to the Service."]},{"heading":"Cookies and Analytics","paragraphs":["Your web sign-in session is kept in a secure, server-only cookie. Browser storage holds interface preferences and, after you confirm an import, may hold game data and images to restore your work. These drafts use session storage first and local storage when session storage is unavailable. The necessary session cookie cannot be turned off: without it you cannot stay signed in on the web. A second cookie records only whether this browser is signed in, so the scan page opens in the right layout before the session has been checked; it holds no account details.","Beyond that we use two analytics services, and both set cookies. Where prior consent is required by law — the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland — neither loads until you press \"Accept\" in the prompt. Elsewhere they are on by default and you can turn them off at any time (see below):"],"bullets":["Google Analytics 4: Visit counts, referral sources, and page performance. Processed by Google and may be transferred outside your country, including to the United States.","Microsoft Clarity: Records clicks, scrolling, and mouse movement within a page (session replay) plus heatmaps, so we can find interface problems. We do not use it to identify you personally."],"paragraphsAfter":["You can change your mind at any time from \"Cookie settings\" in the footer of every page, or from your account settings. When analytics are off, none of these scripts load at all. Turning them off does not stop a script that is already running in the tab you are on — reload the page and it will not come back."]},{"heading":"Data Retention","paragraphs":["We retain your account information, game history, and images only for as long as necessary to provide the Service. When the data is no longer needed, or when you request deletion, we delete it. Reduced-size copies kept to train our models (see “How We Use Information”) are not removed automatically when you delete a game or your account; email {{email}} and we remove them."]},{"heading":"Data Deletion and Account Deletion","paragraphs":["You can delete your account at any time on the web at https://scanchess.com/delete-account. This deletes your account information along with the uploaded images, games and scan data associated with your account. Once deleted, this data cannot be recovered. Reduced-size copies kept to train our models are covered under “Data Retention”.","If you need help deleting your data, you can also email us at {{email}}."]},{"heading":"Data Security","paragraphs":["We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your data in transit and at rest. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure."]},{"heading":"Your Rights","paragraphs":["Wherever you live, you can exercise the following rights over the personal data we hold. To use any of them, email {{email}} and we will respond within 30 days."],"bullets":["Access: find out what data we hold about you and get a copy.","Correction: ask us to fix data that is inaccurate.","Deletion: delete your account yourself at any time, or ask us to do it.","Restriction and objection: object to processing we base on legitimate interests, such as analytics.","Portability: receive your game data in a common format — you can also export PGN yourself at any time.","Withdraw consent: turn off analytics cookies at any time, without affecting processing carried out before you withdrew."],"paragraphsAfter":["EU/UK visitors: we process data to perform our contract with you (account, scanning, billing), for our legitimate interests (security and abuse prevention), and on your consent (analytics cookies). You have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.","California residents: we do not \"sell\" or \"share\" personal information as those terms are defined by the CCPA/CPRA, and we will not treat you differently for exercising your rights.","International transfers: our providers (the AI model providers, Chessvision.ai, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, and Waffo) may process data outside your country, including in the United States and the EU."]},{"heading":"Children's Privacy","paragraphs":["The Service is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact {{email}} and we will delete it.","Coaches and clubs can add the players they teach, including junior players, to a club workspace, and are responsible for having the right to do so. A player is treated as a junior unless the club says otherwise: a shared report about a junior player never shows their full name, and its link lasts at most 30 days. A parent or guardian can ask us to delete a junior player's records by emailing {{email}}."]},{"heading":"Changes to This Policy","paragraphs":["We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date at the top."]},{"heading":"Contact Us","paragraphs":["If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us by email at {{email}}."]}]},"termsPage":{"title":"Terms of Service","intro":"Welcome to ScanChess. These terms (\"Terms\") govern your access to and use of the ScanChess website and browser extension (the \"Service\"). By using the Service, you agree to these Terms.","sections":[{"heading":"Description of the Service","paragraphs":["ScanChess is an AI-powered tool that recognizes photos of handwritten scoresheets and chessboards and converts them into standard chess notation (PGN and FEN), and helps you study the games: engine analysis, AI-written explanations, practice and reports. AI recognition results and AI explanations may contain errors, so please verify them before relying on them."]},{"heading":"Accounts and Age","paragraphs":["You need an account — with an email address and password, or Google sign-in — to use certain features. You are responsible for safeguarding your account and for all activity that occurs under it.","The Service is not for children under 13. If you are under 18 (or the age of majority where you live), you may use the Service only with a parent or guardian's consent, and any purchase must be made by an adult able to enter a contract, or with their explicit consent.","Coaches and clubs can add the players they teach, including junior players, to a club workspace. Whoever adds a player is responsible for having the right to do so, for example the consent of the player or of a parent or guardian."]},{"heading":"Subscriptions, Credits and Purchases","bullets":["The Service uses credits: a scoresheet scan costs 2 credits and a board photo costs 1 credit, one AI explanation a day is free (5 a day on Pro, 15 on Pro+) and further ones cost 1 credit each, and every new account starts with 10 free credits. Current prices, credit rules and what each plan includes are listed on our pricing page at scanchess.com/pricing.","Pro and Pro+ are subscriptions. They renew automatically at the same price for the period you chose — monthly or yearly — until you cancel.","On the Mainland China store, Pro is sold as a 365-day pass priced in CNY and paid once with WeChat Pay. A pass does not renew and nothing further is charged when it ends; buying another extends it and the days you have left carry over.","You can cancel yourself at any time at scanchess.com/pricing. Canceling stops future charges; Pro stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for.","Waffo is the merchant of record for web subscriptions: it is the seller, it appears on your statement, and it calculates tax at checkout.","All payments are final and non-refundable — including the unused remainder of a period and unspent credits — except where applicable law requires otherwise. Use the free credits that come with your account to check the Service suits you before subscribing. The full terms are in our Refund Policy at scanchess.com/refunds.","Purchases made through a third-party app store are also subject to that store's terms, and refunds for them must be requested from the store."]},{"heading":"Acceptable Use","paragraphs":["When using the Service, you agree not to:"],"bullets":["Upload any content that is unlawful, infringing, or that you do not have the right to process.","Attempt to disrupt, reverse engineer, or abuse the Service or its underlying systems.","Make excessive automated requests or circumvent the credit and billing mechanisms."]},{"heading":"Term and Termination","paragraphs":["These Terms apply from the moment you start using the Service until you or we end them. If you breach the Acceptable Use rules above, we may take one or more of the following actions, depending on how serious the breach is and whether it is repeated:"],"bullets":["Issue a warning, or remove or restrict access to the offending content.","Suspend your account, or limit specific features such as scanning.","Terminate your account immediately and without prior notice for serious breaches — for example unlawful content, attacks on the Service, or circumventing the credit and billing mechanisms.","If your account is terminated for a breach of these Terms, any unused credits are forfeited without refund and any active subscription stops renewing, except where a refund is required by applicable law or the relevant app store policy."],"paragraphsAfter":["We will notify you at the email address on your account when we suspend or terminate it, unless we are legally prevented from doing so. If you believe we acted in error, you may appeal by emailing {{email}} within 30 days of the notice, and we will review the decision.","You may also stop using the Service at any time and delete your account and its data using the \"Delete account\" feature. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Disclaimer, Limitation of Liability, and Governing Law — remain in effect."]},{"heading":"Your Content","paragraphs":["You retain ownership of the images and games you upload. To provide the Service, you grant us a limited license necessary to process them, including transmitting images to the third-party recognition providers we use, and sending the moves, positions and engine lines of a game or position to an AI model provider when you ask for an explanation. If you create a public link to a report, anyone with the link can read it until it expires or you withdraw it. See our Privacy Policy for details."]},{"heading":"Account Deletion","paragraphs":["You can delete your account and associated data at any time on the \"Delete account\" page at scanchess.com/delete-account. Once deleted, this data cannot be recovered."]},{"heading":"Disclaimer","paragraphs":["The Service is provided on an \"as is\" and \"as available\" basis, without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not guarantee that recognition results are fully accurate or that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free."]},{"heading":"Limitation of Liability","paragraphs":["To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, ScanChess shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of or inability to use the Service."]},{"heading":"Intellectual Property and Complaints","paragraphs":["The ScanChess software, interface, and documentation are ours. The images you upload and the notation we produce from them are yours; we process them only to provide the Service.","If you believe something on the Service infringes your copyright or other rights, email {{email}} with: how to contact you, what the material is and where it appears, a statement of your rights in the work, and a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized. We investigate promptly, remove material where warranted, and may terminate accounts that infringe repeatedly."]},{"heading":"Changes to the Service","paragraphs":["We may improve, change, or discontinue parts of the Service. If a change materially disadvantages you — a price increase, a reduction in what Pro includes, or shutting the Service down — we will give at least 30 days' notice by email to the address on your account or by notice in the app, so subscribers can cancel before the change takes effect rather than renew on the new terms.","The Service may be interrupted briefly for maintenance, fixes, or to deal with a security incident. We keep those interruptions as short as we can."]},{"heading":"Changes to These Terms","paragraphs":["We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date at the top, and subscribers will be notified by email or in-app notice before they take effect. Continued use of the Service means you accept the updated Terms."]},{"heading":"Disputes and Governing Law","paragraphs":["If something goes wrong, email {{email}} first — almost everything is settled that way within 30 days.","These Terms are governed by the laws of Singapore, and disputes arising from them are subject to the courts of Singapore.","If you are a consumer, the mandatory consumer protection law of the country where you habitually live applies to these Terms, and you may bring a claim in your local courts. Nothing here takes those rights away.","If any part of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, that part is adjusted or removed only as far as necessary, and the rest stays in effect."]},{"heading":"Contact Us","paragraphs":["If you have any questions about these Terms, contact us by email at {{email}}."]}]},"refundsPage":{"title":"Refund Policy","sections":[{"heading":"All sales are final","paragraphs":["Subscription payments are not refundable. That includes the unused remainder of a period, a renewal you forgot to cancel, and credits you bought but did not spend.","This is what lets us price the way we do, and in exchange every new account starts with 10 free credits — five scoresheets — with no card required. Use them to check that the recognition copes with your handwriting before you subscribe."]},{"heading":"Exceptions","paragraphs":["The above does not apply to:"],"bullets":["Anything applicable law requires us to refund. This policy does not reduce rights given to you by the mandatory consumer protection law where you live; EU/UK customers keep their statutory withdrawal rights where those conditions are met.","Purchases made through a third-party app store. Those are refunded by the store under its own policy — request it there. We can neither approve nor block them.","Technical errors on our side or the payment provider's, such as a duplicate charge or the wrong amount. That is not a refund, it is a correction: contact us and we will fix it."]},{"heading":"What to do instead","paragraphs":["Cancel rather than wait for the charge and then ask for it back. Canceling is self-serve: sign in, open the pricing page, press Cancel subscription. Two clicks, no email to anyone.","Canceling stops all future charges. You keep Pro until the end of the period you have already paid for, and the credits in your balance stay yours — they never expire. Step by step: \"How to cancel a ScanChess subscription\".","Cancel before the renewal date. For a yearly plan, dealing with it as soon as you get the renewal reminder is the safest habit."]},{"heading":"What credits are","bullets":["Credits are the internal unit for using the Service. They are not stored value and have no cash value.","They cannot be refunded, paid out, or transferred to another account.","The same is true of credits given for free through sign-up or referrals.","Canceling does not wipe the credits already in your balance."]},{"heading":"Ask us anyway","paragraphs":["If a scan comes back unusable, if your account was charged in a way that looks wrong, or if you think your situation should not be handled by the rule above, email {{email}} with your account address and the order id from your Waffo receipt. We reply within 2 business days and look at cases on their facts — a policy is a policy, and a person is a person."]},{"heading":"Who you are buying from","paragraphs":["Waffo is the merchant of record for web subscriptions and is what appears on your statement. Any refund we are legally required to make is initiated by us and carried out by Waffo.","The 365-day pass sold on the Mainland China store and paid with WeChat Pay is also collected by Waffo and covered by this policy: paid once, not refundable. A pass never renews, so there is no forgotten renewal to dispute."]}],"intro":"ScanChess does not offer refunds. We put that at the top, and next to the buy button, because you should know it before you pay rather than discover it afterwards. Below: why, the exceptions, and what to do instead if you no longer want to be charged.","stopCharges":"Want to stop being charged? Cancel on the <pricing>pricing page</pricing>, or email <mail>{{email}}</mail>."},"securityPage":{"title":"Security","sections":[{"heading":"Reporting a vulnerability","paragraphs":["Email {{email}} with \"Security\" in the subject. Describe how to reproduce it and what it lets someone do. We reply within 3 business days and tell you the outcome once it is fixed.","We will not pursue legal action over good-faith research, provided you do not access, change, or exfiltrate anyone else's data, do not run denial-of-service or spam tests, and give us a chance to fix the issue before disclosing it. There is no paid bounty program, but we will credit you by name if you want that."]},{"heading":"How your data is protected","bullets":["Everything travels over HTTPS; the site and API sit behind Cloudflare.","Passwords are stored as salted bcrypt hashes — we cannot read yours.","Web sessions use signed JWTs in HttpOnly cookies; changing a password revokes previously issued sessions and password-reset tokens.","We never handle payment details: web checkout is hosted by Waffo, our merchant of record, and we receive only an order id and subscription status.","Deleting an account really deletes it — profile, games, and uploaded images go, and cannot be recovered."]},{"heading":"The images you upload","paragraphs":["Scoresheet photos are sent to the third-party AI model provider we use for recognition; the Privacy Policy sets out exactly what is shared. Images belong to your account: delete a single game at any time, or delete the account to remove all of them."]},{"heading":"What we do not have","paragraphs":["Plainly: no SOC 2, no ISO 27001, no third-party audit, and no paid bounty program. ScanChess is built by a small team. If your school, federation, or employer needs compliance paperwork, write to us and we will tell you honestly what we can and cannot provide."]}]},"changelogEntries":{"2026-10-22":{"title":"Receipts for credits spent, and scans you can safely retry","items":["A scan started on the home page opens its game in your workspace as soon as it is read.","If a scan's photo upload or save fails, Save stays available and retries into the same game, so nothing is filed twice.","A round scan ends with a receipt: games saved, credits used and any games to retry. A paid AI coach explanation says what it cost."]},"2026-10-16":{"title":"A public accuracy test, a free club plan and free screenshot reads in the extension","items":["The accuracy test is public at /accuracy: sample scoresheets read once by our scanner, published move by move, right or wrong, with how we scored them.","Every club now has a free plan: a roster of up to 10 players with student pages, and 1 event report a month. Scans use the club's credits as usual.","The browser extension reads screenshots on your device, free and without an account. Only its optional server reader, for images it can't read, costs 1 credit."]},"2026-10-12":{"title":"From scan to study: games library, insights, preparation and club tools","items":["The games library lists every game with its source, time control, your side and opening. \"Analyze all\" queues Stockfish for the games not yet analyzed, and the analysis is saved with each game.","Insights build a profile from your analyzed games, and you can link a Lichess or Chess.com username to compare your online and over-the-board play. The full profile — accuracy over time, phases, mistake types, openings and filters — comes with Pro.","Opening repertoires (Pro): keep the lines you play and see where a game left them.","Opponent scouting (Pro): enter an opponent's Lichess or Chess.com username to see what they play, how they score with it and where to aim.","Explain a position: on the analysis board, the best move finder and any game, the AI coach explains what is going on. It shares the free explanation a day; positions you save go into your notebook.","Event reports can have an AI-written summary, and on Pro+ a report can be shared by a public link that you can withdraw at any time.","Clubs on Pro+ get a player roster and a page per student, and the games of a round scan can be assigned to the players in one step.","When the way moves are judged improves, your saved analyses are brought up to date overnight, along with the practice positions built from them."]},"2026-10-11":{"title":"Daily practice, a free AI explanation a day, and event reports","items":["One AI coach explanation a day is now free for accounts with a verified email; after that it costs 1 credit per game.","A scan opens straight into the full game analysis, and the analysis is saved with the game so it reopens without running the engine again.","Daily practice turns the positions where you went wrong into short exercises. Free accounts get 15 a day; Pro has no limit.","Event reports (Pro) sum up one player's tournament: accuracy and the biggest mistake in each round, the openings, the mistakes that came back and what to practice next. They can be printed."]},"2026-10-08":{"title":"Screenshots read in your browser","items":["The best move finder now reads screenshots and digital diagrams in your browser: free, no account, nothing uploaded. Photos of real boards still go to our recognizer, free for accounts with a verified email.","A scoresheet uploaded as a board image, or a board uploaded as a scoresheet, is caught before and after the scan, so credits are not spent on the wrong kind of read."]},"2026-10-05":{"title":"An AI coach for your games","items":["Game analysis shows where the game turned, and the AI coach explains those moments in plain words: what happened, what was better and why, grounded in the engine's lines."]},"2026-10-01":{"title":"Best move finder, analysis board and Chess Wrapped","items":["New free tool: the best move finder. Paste a FEN, or sign in and upload a screenshot or photo, and Stockfish 18 names the best move with its top three lines. Reading a position from an image is free for signed-in accounts and uses no credits.","New free tool: an analysis board. Play moves from any position and Stockfish evaluates each one in your browser; copy the FEN or PGN when you are done.","New free tool: Chess Wrapped. Type a Chess.com or Lichess username and get the year in review, with a card to download or share."]},"2026-09-15":{"title":"Tactics from the games you actually played","items":["After a Stockfish analysis, ScanChess now pulls the forcing shots you missed — captures, checks and mates you had and did not play — and lets you solve them on the board. Save a set to practice again later. The positions come from your own games, including scanned scoresheets, not from a public puzzle bank."]},"2026-09-10":{"title":"The site in eight languages, a sharper eye for doubtful moves, and pairings for a whole round","items":["ScanChess now reads in Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian and Russian as well as English and Chinese. Pick yours from the globe in the header, or from Language in Settings.","A misread move is usually still a legal move, so legality alone never caught it. Scans are now also checked for material behaving in a way no real game does — a piece left to be taken for nothing that nobody takes — and the plies involved are flagged for review with the reason. Nothing is rewritten.","Notation people actually write is now understood rather than rejected: a pawn written with a P prefix, long algebraic like e2-e4, a capture that names the piece taken (BxN), and file-takes-file (cxd).","When a move is doubtful, the check step now offers the legal moves that look closest to the ink instead of an open question, and an answer that would stop the game replaying is dropped rather than saved.","Batch scanning learned the arbiter's workflow. Photos named like R3B7p2.jpg or filed under Round 3/Board 7 are grouped and placed on their own, and a pairing list — CSV, a PGN roster or JSON, from any program — files every game under the right players, ratings, round and board. Download the round as one PGN, plus a CSV of what still needs a human eye."]},"2026-09-07":{"title":"Lines on the board, notes on the game, and a batch mode for whole rounds","items":["Click an engine line and it plays out on the board — step through it move by move, and while the engine is on, the board shows its best move as an arrow for the position you are looking at.","Annotate your game: write a comment on any position, and record alternative lines — typed in, or saved straight from an engine preview. Comments and variations are saved with the game, travel with share links, and export inside the PGN.","Scanning a whole round? The new batch page takes the stack of scoresheets at once, groups multi-page sheets into one game each, and files every game into your library on its own."]},"2026-09-06":{"title":"Engine analysis, opening names, and games that belong to both players","items":["Stockfish runs in your browser. Turn it on under the board to see the evaluation and best lines, or analyze the whole game to have every inaccuracy, mistake and blunder marked with an accuracy score per side. Nothing is uploaded.","Every game now names its opening (ECO code and Lichess name) in the workbench, the share page, the library and the PGN header.","Scoresheets written with German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Russian or Chinese piece letters, and figurine notation, are read as such and translated to standard SAN.","One click sends a game to Lichess and opens it there. On a share link, \"Save to my library\" files a copy under your own account.","The library sorts by saved time, game date or player name, and filters by result."]},"2026-09-04":{"title":"The fixes from the September review","items":["You can upload a scoresheet and run your first scan before verifying your email; verification is asked for from the second scan on.","A game you are still correcting survives a reload: the moves and images come back where you left them.","Low-confidence moves are flagged again, each with the alternatives the rules allow, and you can insert or delete a move instead of only retyping one. A game can be saved while corrections are still pending.","Game details (players, event, date, result) are editable after a scan, and a saved game can be exported as PGN straight from History.","Share links can be turned off again, and a link you have revoked stops working immediately.","Fixed: the mobile menu would not open; sessions expired mid-visit instead of refreshing quietly; the pricing page described the plans incorrectly.","Honest copy: the home page no longer implies error-free output, the About page says who builds ScanChess and what it does not do, the tool pages load faster and never show an empty board, and Chinese articles show a real reading time."]},"2026-08-23":{"title":"A link your opponent can open","items":["Every saved game can have a public link. Whoever opens it sees the board, the moves and the PGN without an account.","Scans that were refused because of where the AI request came from are retried from a US route automatically, instead of failing and refunding."]},"2026-08-19":{"title":"No more confident guesses","items":["When a scanned game stops making sense, the move that breaks it is marked and the rest is left as written. Automatic correction is off; changes are yours to make.","Board photos are read twice and cross-checked before a position is reported, and an unreadable image is now reported as unreadable rather than as a plausible-looking position.","Board mode shows a real photo → position demo, and the free tools sit above the fold on their pages."]},"2026-08-17":{"title":"Free tools, and Pro+","items":["Three tools that need no account: a PGN viewer, a board editor that produces FEN, and a PGN validator that finds the move that breaks a game.","Pro+ ($19.99/month or $119.99/year) adds 500 credits every 30 days for clubs and coaches who scan a lot. Web subscribers can move between Pro and Pro+.","Scanning the same photo twice no longer charges twice: the earlier result is returned for free.","The scan-complete email is back, and the API now runs on Cloudflare, closer to you."]},"2026-08-12":{"title":"Accounts, billing and consent","items":["A settings page: your plan and credits, display name, password, referral code, language, billing history, and one button that downloads every game you have saved.","Subscriptions can be canceled on the pricing page in two clicks. Canceling stops the next charge; Pro and your credits last out the period you paid for.","Analytics now ask first. Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity do not load until you accept, and the choice can be changed in settings at any time.","A pricing page that shows what a scan actually costs, a refund policy, a contact page, and a security page.","The first Chinese translations of the guides, and a language link on every article that has one."]},"2026-08-11":{"title":"Pay on the web","items":["Pro can now be bought on the website. Checkout is handled by Waffo, our merchant of record.","Scoresheets that quote a number — \"1.d4\" written with the move number attached — no longer break the rest of the scan."]},"2026-08-10":{"title":"Delete your account yourself","items":["Account deletion moved out of email and onto a page: /delete-account removes your profile, games and uploaded images for good.","Email from ScanChess now goes through Cloudflare, which fixed the verification messages that were landing in spam."]}}}