v0.1.3 Technology Preview (AwesomeAtti)

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The "wait you can just... play chess now?" update

no cap this is the update. sit down.

Highlights (the ones that ate, no crumbs left)

• The board is playable now, fr fr. Drag your pieces around like the
  main character you actually are. Click to make a move, branch off into a
  variation, basically become the sigma of your own opening prep. The board
  finally has main character energy instead of just sitting there looking
  pretty and doing nothing, which — not gonna lie — was extremely mid of it.

• Paste a FEN or PGN straight onto the board. Found a spicy position
  somewhere on the internet? Copy it, paste it into the Game View, and
  boom — manifested into existence. It's giving "I put in zero effort and
  got maximum results," which is honestly the dream.

• Draw on the board like it's your notes app at 2am. Arrows, highlighted
  squares, the whole delulu-is-the-solulu vibe. Point out the blunder, point
  out the brilliancy, point out exactly why your opponent should be
  embarrassed. It saves too, so future-you can relive the cringe forever.

• Variations you can actually edit now. Promote a line to the mainline,
  demote it back to side-quest status, or delete the branch that was never
  going anywhere anyway. Rewriting history like it's a group chat you're
  cleaning up before your parents see it.

• A REAL engine. Not a bit. Not a vibe. An actual Stockfish, installed
  on demand, running live evaluations while you play — on desktop AND the
  PWA. Flip it on in Settings and let it judge every single move you make,
  in real time, with zero chill. It has no feelings. It will not be nice
  about your last move. It has never lost a game and it will not start now.

• Hover an engine line to preview it, click to play it. The engine
  shows you its plan; hover and it draws the line on the board, click and
  it just plays the move for you. This is not a flex, this is just
  correct. Zero effort, maximum rizz.

• Import games straight from a PGN file. Drag it in, drop it in, done —
  your games are actually IN the app now, not just vibes and promises.

Coming soon (manifesting rn, no takebacks)

• Real move evaluations — not just "the engine says +1.4" and leaving you
  to figure out why. Moves gets tagged as an annotation (blunder,
  mistake, inaccuracy, whatever it earns), sitting right there in the move
  list. It's not a coach. It's not gonna hug you after. It's just going to
  put a little red flag on the move and let you sit with that.
• Smart Collections — a folder that builds itself based on rules you
  set. Passive income but for chess games.
• Subscribing to your friends' games — stalking, but make it a feature.
  Their Chess.com games just show up. No screenshots required.
• Annotating moves with actual comments — not just arrows and vibes,
  real words, so you can finally explain why you played Bd3 there. (You
  don't know either. That's fine. Write it anyway.)

None of this exists yet. It's in the pipeline. Manifest it into the next
release with us.

The fine print (still funny, still true)

• Still a Technology Preview, which is legal-speak for "held together by
  hopes, dreams, and 1,240 passing tests." It might blunder occasionally.
  So do you. So does everyone. It's giving beta and that's okay.
• Native (non-WASM) engines are still cooking. Manifesting patience.
• macOS builds are unsigned, so Gatekeeper is gonna give big "I don't know
  you" energy on first launch. Right-click → Open to let it know you're
  cool, actually.

download it, break it, tell us what happened. we'll fix it before the
algorithm finds out.

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