EP 458: Pawel Kacprzak: The Founder of Chessvision.ai on Scanning Chess Diagrams, Digital Flashcards, and Building a Chess Business

Perpetual Chess Podcast

Perpetual Chess LLC

Leisure, Sports, Hobbies

4.8 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Polish programmer and chess enthusiast Pawel Kacprzak joins me to share the story behind Chessvision.ai. Chessvision.ai is a helpful app and browser extension that can scan chess diagrams and connect them to related YouTube videos and chess books, and allows you to easily turn these positions into digital flashcards. We talk about how Pawel’s side project grew into a full-time business, what it takes to build tech tools for chess players, and what Pawel has planned next for his growing platform.Pawel also discusses his enthusiasm for following professional chess, and his own approach to chess improvement. I have become a big fan of Pawel’s product, and I enjoyed chatting with him. Thanks to our sponsor ⁠Chessable.com⁠, check out their Black Friday sale here: ⁠https://www.chessable.com/courses/all/all/offer/?utm_source=chessable&utm_medium=shop_hero_banner&utm_campaign=enblackfriday2_2025⁠ 0:02- Pawel Kacprzak joins me! Mentioned: NM Han Schut’s video overviews of Chessvision.ai ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqwK8Q1NEjg⁠ 03:00 The Impact of Daniel Naroditsky 06:00 Pawel's Journey into Chess and Programming 10:30 Evolution of Chessvision.ai 17:00 ⁠Patreon mailbag question⁠: Can one use Chessvision.ai to scan diagrams from physical chess boards? 19:00 ⁠Patreon mailbag question⁠: What features will Pawel work on developing next? 23:00 Subscription Models and Accessibility 28:00 Community Engagement and Support 29:30- ⁠Patreon mailbag question⁠: Does Pawel consider himself an adult improver? 33:30 Chess Resources and Learning 35:30 Closing Thoughts and Advice Thanks to Pawel for joining me! Here is how to reach him, as well as how to find out more about Chessvision.ai: Email- Pawel at ⁠Chessvision.ai⁠ Twitter/X- ⁠https://twitter.com/ChessvisionAI⁠ Discord- ⁠https://discord.gg/zkcBPhWhme⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to Perpetual Chess. We have a fun interview coming your way with a very talented chess programmer and entrepreneur
1:11.5	whose product I am a big fan of the creator of Chess Vision AI. We'll get you to that interview
1:17.7	in a second, but first wanted to give a shout out, as always, to our sponsors, chessable.com. So two things.
1:24.1	Number one, if you're listening to this podcast shortly after it comes out, they've got
1:28.3	their Black Friday sale coming up, including my course, identifying critical moments in chess.
1:33.3	It's geared towards 1,500 and below players and talks about how to know when to use your time.
1:40.9	Also wanted to give a shout out to my personal friend and longtime friend of the pod.
1:44.5	FM Mike Klein finally has his first Chescible course out called Down but Not Out,
1:49.5	fighting back and losing positions. It's got concrete comeback techniques and looks at some of
1:54.4	Magnus Carlson's epic comebacks. There's this one famous one against Gawain Jones. I'm guessing
1:59.6	Mike has that in his course.
2:00.9	I actually haven't looked yet.
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