Ink portrait of David Menéndez
David Menéndez
Founder & sole developer · Gijón

I kept losing to the same three players at my club

Every one of them had a pattern. The same opening every game, the same collapse under time pressure, the same reply when I pushed on the queenside. I could feel it, but I could not prove it.

So I wrote something that could. Chess Stalker is that tool. No company behind it, just one person who plays at your level.

Why trust it

Systems engineering first, a software engineering degree on top of it. I wrote the analysis logic, the site and the database queries myself, so when something breaks there is nobody to wait for.

A master's in cybersecurity is why the site stores an email address and nothing else, why there is no search history tied to your name, and why payments never touch my servers.

I also trained as a secondary school teacher, and it changed how I built this. A number on its own teaches nothing, so every figure here comes with what to do about it on the board.

Club player, not a titled one. I say it because it matters: I built this for the rating range I actually play in, where preparation still decides games and nobody has a second to scout for them. FIDE 1700. I compete less than I would like: two small daughters win that argument every weekend.

Computer Systems EngineeringUniversidad de Oviedo
BSc Software EngineeringUniversidad Internacional de La Rioja
MSc CybersecurityUniversidad Internacional de Valencia
MA Secondary EducationUniversidad Camilo José Cela

What I will not claim

The Twin Bot is an approximation. It mirrors an opponent’s openings and playing strength, not the way they think at the board.

A profile needs volume to mean anything. Under fifty games the report is a hint rather than a verdict, and the page says so before you read it.

No tool wins the game for you. This one only tells you where to look before you sit down. The moves are still yours.

Write to me directly

There is no support team to route you through. I answer my own mail.

Write to info@chessstalker.com, or use the if you prefer.

Credits

Game data

Tournament game archive: The Week in Chess (TWIC) by Mark Crowther, used under a commercial licence agreement.

Tournament broadcast games: © Lichess contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other games: public tournament records, including the ICCF correspondence archive.

Pieces and software

Modern pieces: Kosal by Kosal Sen, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Classic pieces: Cburnett by Colin M.L. Burnett, from Wikimedia Commons, used under the BSD license. Resized to scale, otherwise unchanged.

Full list of third-party licenses (software, fonts and artwork).

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