Make a game review video with every move badged by Stockfish
Game Review in ChessDrama Studio runs Stockfish in your browser over the whole game, badges every move, draws the better move on each mistake and drives a live evaluation bar. It is free, and with Auto Recap it builds the first cut of the video for you.
What Game Review puts on the board
Turn it on and the game gets the apparatus viewers know from the big sites, on your own board and in your own video.
- A badge on every move: book, best, good, inaccuracy, mistake, blunder, miss or forced, each in its own colour.
- The engine's preferred move drawn as an arrow wherever the player went wrong, so the viewer sees the alternative without you pausing to explain it.
- An evaluation bar beside the board that swings as the position turns.
- With Auto Recap: a title from the event and round, a tint and a held beat on every mistake, and the loser's king toppled on the final position.
Then make it yours
Badges are effects like any other, so you can remove one you disagree with, move it, or hand-place a brilliant or great badge where the engine was too cool to award one. Add flags for your commentary, a zoom on the turning point, a spotlight on the piece that was left hanging, and subtitles under the board. Set the seconds per move so you dwell on the decisions and pass over the forced recaptures.
For the game you just played
Import it by username from Chess.com or Lichess, tick Auto Recap, and the recap of your tournament or online game is ready to record or render. Players use it to post a review of their own game the same evening, with the blunders marked honestly and the good moves given their due.
For coaches and content creators
A teacher reviewing a student's game can mark the three moments that mattered with flags and a voice-over, and leave the badges to carry the rest. A channel covering the day's grandmaster games can import from a broadcast PGN, keep the clock times on screen, and have a badged recap out before the commentary shows have finished. Branches let you show the line the player missed as well as the one played.
Export
Record the playback with your screen recorder for free, talking over the moves as you go, or render an MP4 in the cloud on Pro, 5 US dollars a month, with pre-recorded voice-over clips mixed in at the right moments and the robot voice reading your flags. 16:9 for the long review, 9:16 for the one blunder that made it a short.
Questions
- Which engine does it use?
- Stockfish, running in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server for analysis, and the engine's verdicts are cached in the project so the review does not run again every time you open it.
- Is Game Review free?
- Yes. The engine, the badges, the evaluation bar and Auto Recap are all part of the free studio. Only cloud rendering and the voice features are Pro.
- Can I change a badge?
- Yes. Every badge is an effect on its move: delete it, move it to another square, or place a brilliant or great badge yourself where you think it is deserved.
- Where do the book moves come from?
- An opening book built from the Lichess openings dataset. A move still in theory is badged book rather than judged by the engine.