Chess Puzzles to PGN
Turn scanned chess puzzle books into verified, Lichess-ready PGN files
- What
- Turn scanned chess puzzle books into verified, Lichess-ready PGN files
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- none — no account, no API keys. Most useful if you have chess puzzle books, puzzle PDFs, or screenshots to digitize, and a Lichess account for study imports.
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — digitizes chess tactics collections: it takes puzzle PDFs, puzzle screenshots, or manual puzzle entry and converts them into validated PGN files ready for Lichess study import. The workflow is strict about correctness — a fixed 10-stage pipeline (setup, puzzle extraction, PGN generation, validation, file naming, metadata verification, quality check, Lichess import validation, documentation, completion), an immutable file structure so nothing gets lost, and explicit rules that ban placeholder moves and truncated games: every puzzle must carry a real solution, proper headers, and the move sequence. Discovered via skills.sh, listed here with credit to its creator by @dash1971. Honest caveats: accuracy depends on the source scans — verify a sample of solutions against your own analysis before bulk-importing to Lichess; it converts puzzle content, it doesn't find new tactics for you; a chess player yourself is the best quality control this pipeline has. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use. Not verified.
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Prerequisites: none — no account, no API keys. Most useful if you have chess puzzle books, puzzle PDFs, or screenshots to digitize, and a Lichess account for study imports. Install "Chess Puzzles to PGN" for me. A strict 10-stage workflow skill that converts puzzle PDFs, puzzle screenshots, or manual puzzle entry into validated, Lichess-ready PGN files — with rules banning placeholder moves and truncated games, immutable file structure, and quality checks. Repository: https://github.com/dash1971/ai-chess-assistant 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file for the chess-puzzles-to-pgn skill (and any helper files) from the repository path into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "chess-puzzles-to-pgn". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. provide the puzzle PDFs or screenshots to convert, and confirm your Lichess study setup). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.