CHEZABLE
Broadcast

Commentary that sees every rack.

For tournament directors, clubs and commentators. While two players sit at a real board, an operator enters their racks and plays as they happen. CHEZABLE keeps the score, tracks every tile and shows what the engine would play — so the commentary can tell the audience what the players could see, and what they missed.

The bag is empty, so the engine searches ahead to the end of the game: Amara Okot's DEFIES was the best line, finishing 41 points up.
The bag is empty, so the engine searches ahead to the end of the game: Amara Okot's DEFIES was the best line, finishing 41 points up.

A demonstration game played by the engine against itself; the players and the event are fictional.

How it works

An operator, a board, and the game as it happens.

01

Name the game. The event, the round, and the players — with their ratings and photos, if you have them.

02

Start anywhere. From the first move, or lay out the board as the table shows it, mid-game.

03

Enter each rack as it is drawn. Drag its tiles onto the board or type the play; a blank asks what it stands for.

04

Record everything else. Passes, exchanges and challenges — and undo any slip.

05

The end settles itself. When a player goes out, or both pass twice, the game ends and the final score is worked out by the rules.

06

Keep it. Save the game and step back through it, rack by rack, whenever you like.

What the commentary can show

More than the score.

Every rack, every turn

Step back to any move and the racks show what each player held, with what they went on to play marked.

What the engine would play

Candidate plays simulated forward, ranked, with the score, the tiles each keeps and how it plays out.

The endgame, searched

Once the bag is empty, a search ahead toward the end of the game: the spread each play leads to.

What a player can't see

From the seat on move: the other rack first, then what is left in the bag.

Every word checked

The last play's words checked against the word list, phonies marked, challenges recorded.

A proper scoreboard

Names, ratings, photos, the round, the tiles in the bag, and whose turn it is.

Mid-game, each candidate play is simulated forward. Jonas Lindqvist's TOROTH, marked as played, was the strongest.
Mid-game, each candidate play is simulated forward. Jonas Lindqvist's TOROTH, marked as played, was the strongest.
Game over: the score settled by the rules, twice the tiles left on the other rack to the player who went out.
Game over: the score settled by the rules, twice the tiles left on the other rack to the player who went out.
What you need

Broadcast is part of the desktop app, on Windows, macOS and Linux. It does not stream anything itself: add its window to your streaming software, such as OBS, as you would any other source. It needs no connection — everything runs on the operator's computer.