ABOUT ANDROMEDA // ARCHIVE:ONLINE // GAME SEARCH:1840-2000 // ANALYSIS:LOCAL // STATUS:ACTIVE
what this is
Andromeda is a place to study chess across the eras. Under one
cyberpunk-styled roof you'll find curated archives of the great players, a
master database reaching from 1840 to 2000, an analysis board that runs in
your browser, and Christian J. Walls' own tournament games.
It began as a simple personal chess page and grew into a study archive.
Player pages keep the human story alongside the moves, game lists stay
readable with their original dates and PGNs intact, and every game opens in
a Lichess-style viewer with a move list, browser-local Stockfish, and the
PGN tools you'd want close at hand.
current surface
// STUDY PLAYERS //
33
CURATED ARCHIVES
// PUBLIC GAMES //
27398
REPLAYABLE PGNS
// MASTER DATABASE //
2.18M
GAMES 1840-2000
what you can do
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Archives
Study the masters
Sit with the games of players like Petrosian, Tal, Capablanca, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, and many more.
S
Game Search
Search the master database
Look up head-to-head games between any two players, then open them in the viewer to follow along.
N
Analysis
Replay and explore
Drop in your own PGNs, walk through the variations, and let browser-local Stockfish weigh in on the position.
P
Account Tools
Make it your own
With an account you can bookmark games, build collections, and set the board, pieces, and sounds the way you like them.
project principles
Andromeda keeps things close to home on purpose. Everything it needs is
served from here rather than borrowed from elsewhere, your board
preferences live with your account, the master database stays read-only,
and any PGN that comes in is handled carefully before it's trusted. The aim
is a collection of games actually worth studying, not a raw database dump.
The site is built and looked after by Christian J. Walls. If you're curious
about the person behind it — ratings, profiles, security work, and his own
tournament games — that all lives on its own page, separate from this one.