a chess annotation engine. every sentence is checked against the analysis before it reaches you. nothing invented, ever.
Anevaluationisanumber.
Anumberis notanexplanation.
Morphyreadstheposition,judgesthemove,andwritesthewhy.
Onemind,starttofinish.
Morphy answers these live, not from a script. A few analyses per visitor per minute keeps it quick for everyone.
Not by cold arithmetic. Morphy measures what a move did to your chances of actually winning, judged the way real games are won and lost between people. A slip that changes nothing and a move that hands the game away are different events, and Morphy grades them like it.
The writing is generated. The facts are not. Before an annotation reaches you, every claim in it is verified against Morphy’s own reading of the position: every move it names, every number it quotes, every threat it points to. A sentence that fails the check is deleted, not softened.
Send a whole game and Morphy grades every move, finds the few moments where the result was actually decided, and writes what happened at each one: what was played, what it cost or won, and what the position wanted instead.
Morphy is an API.
Send a position and get the verdict with its explanation. Send a whole game and get its story. JSON in, judgment out. Keys come with the private beta.
POST .../annotate-move
{ "fen": "1n2kb1r/p4ppp/4q3/...", "move": "Rd8" }
{ "label": "great",
"win_before": 100,
"win_after": 100,
"annotation": { "text": "18.Rd8# is a great move,
delivering checkmate on the back rank..." } }
POST .../games a full PGN in, every key moment outshape only. the full reference ships with beta access.
Why Morphy?
Paul Morphy of New Orleans was the strongest chess player of the nineteenth century, and the clearest. In 1858 he sat in a Paris opera box, half watching the stage, and played a game so lucid it is still the first brilliancy shown to every student. People did not just admire his games; they understood chess better after seeing them.
That is why the name. Morphy is not here to win your games. It is here to make sense of them.
Morphy is in private beta.
It is built to live inside other products: chess platforms, training tools, clubs, publications. If you want early access, an API key, or Morphy annotating games on your platform, write. Every note gets a reply.
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