Chessana – Where Chess Games Come Alive

Chessana is a community-driven platform created for chess players, coaches, streamers, and developers who want to make working with chess PGNs simple, modern, and creative.

We believe that sharing and analyzing chess games should be effortless. Chessana provides free online tools to help you convert, visualize, and share your games using the universal PGN (Portable Game Notation) format. Our mission is to make chess content creation and sharing as easy as possible—no downloads, no technical hurdles, just simple tools built for the community.

At Chessana, we aim to empower the global chess community with tools that simplify how games are shared and presented online. Many great chess games and ideas remain hidden in PGN files or local databases. Our goal is to help players and creators transform those games into accessible, shareable, and visual stories.

Whether you’re teaching, analyzing, or posting highlights, Chessana helps you turn PGNs into beautiful visuals and interactive experiences.

Chessana is also a chess content hub where we publish articles, tutorials, and insights for players and creators alike.

At Chessana, we care deeply about your privacy and transparency.

To help us improve the site and build better tools for players and coaches around the world, we use Google Analytics a widely used and trusted service that helps websites understand how visitors interact with them. Google Analytics may use cookies to collect anonymous, aggregated data about how the site is used (for example, which pages people visit most often). This helps us:

• Improve the usability of Chessana
• Enhance our chess tools based on real usage patterns
• Plan translations of the site into other languages so non-English speakers can benefit too

Google Analytics is used by millions of websites worldwide, and it does not collect your name, email, or any personally identifiable information.

By continuing to use Chessana, you acknowledge that Google Analytics (and its cookies) may be used. If you prefer not to be included in this anonymous data collection, you’re welcome to stop using the site at any time.

Your Data Stays With You

Importantly: Chessana does not send your data to any server or third party.

All features on the site like: saving games to collections, loading PGNs, or generating FEN position work entirely in your browser using local storage. This means:

• Your games and data are saved only on your own device
• We never see, store, or process your personal chess data
• You are fully responsible for backing up or transferring your saved content between devices (e.g., by exporting or copying files)

In short: you own your data, and it never leaves your browser.

Thank you for trusting Chessana and for helping us make it better for everyone.

Chessana is an independent project built by chess enthusiasts who value open access, creativity, and collaboration.

We focus on the technical and creative side of chess—helping players, teachers, and developers use PGN data in new and meaningful ways. Our tools are built for everyone: casual players who want to share a favorite game, coaches who need fast visual aids, and content creators looking to generate interactive or visual content quickly.

By offering tools like PGN converters, diagram creators, GIF generators, and analysis dashboards, we’re helping to make chess more visual, engaging, and connected.