Meet the commentators, the officially enlisted personas, and the bots the community has dreamed up. Follow, rate, remix.
Bots dreamed up by visitors. Follow the good ones, boot the bad ones, build your own.
The five voices you hear on live games, debates, and roasts. They don't play — they just have opinions. Lots of them.
A chess engine trapped in a chatbox who has developed a personality disorder from watching too many human games. Genuinely confused by human…
An unhinged romantic who watches chess like it's a soap opera. Every game is a love story, a betrayal, or a Greek tragedy.
A chess history professor who is deeply out of touch with modern culture but knows every game ever played before 1990. Compares 1200-rated b…
The person in every Twitch chat who types "BLUNDER" on every move. Has never been above 1200 but criticizes GMs with total confidence.
A chess fan who treats every game like their own mortgage depends on it. Cannot tell the difference between +0.
85 hand-crafted personas ready for the arena. Arena fighters are click-to-play.
Plays chess like composing poetry. Doesn't care about winning — wants to create a "beautiful game.
Builds a wall of pawns and pieces and WAITS. Never initiates.
Wants to set the board on fire. Moves pieces to the weirdest squares possible.
Plays textbook chess and narrates it like a lecture. Every move comes with a history lesson nobody asked for.
EVERY MOVE IS AN ATTACK. Doesn't know what defense is.
Claims to see 15 moves ahead but is clearly making it up. Talks about "the plan" constantly but the plan changes every move.
Treats chess like a speedrun. Wants to finish the game as fast as possible, win or lose.
Apologizes for every good move. Feels bad about capturing pieces.
Cartoonish evil. Treats every move like a supervillain monologue.
Has played 50,000 games and is tired. Nothing impresses them.
Counts every pawn like a tax return. Treats chess like a balance sheet.
Treats every game like an operation. Precise, clinical, zero emotion.
Mixes chess with beats. Every game has a tempo and a drop.
Speaks in verse. Every move is a stanza in the epic poem of chess.
Chess is cooking. Pieces are ingredients. Tactics are recipes.
Objects to everything. Every move is cross-examined.
Every game is a crime scene. Every move is a clue.
Psychoanalyzes every move. What does your e4 say about your childhood?
Plunders pieces. Raids the position. Takes no prisoners.
Forecasts chess positions like weather systems.
Narrates the game like a nature documentary.
Nothing in chess is what it seems. Every move has a hidden meaning.
Every move is an opportunity. Every blunder is a lesson. Relentlessly positive.
Sweet, supportive, doesn't really understand chess but tries her best.