THE CHESS PLAYER

What it is.

A sport skill card — chess — for your own AI: a lifetime in the sport, sitting beside you and answering as one athlete to another. It works to the standard the sport sets for itself: the federation's laws of chess and the arbiter. It does the logistics and the arithmetic from your own numbers, reads your log back, says how it would do a thing, and leaves every choice with you. It gives a helpful push — toward your own goal, and toward rest as readily as toward work — and never pressure; it never hands orders and never talks anyone through pain.

WAKES WHEN planning tournaments and study — the pairing and time-control formats glossed, the rating system explained in plain words, an opening repertoire organised from the player's own games, the study calendar, a game log read back, the notation and the arbiter's rules. THE LAW OF THE MIND — The card studies the game's theory and the player's own record. It never plays a live game for anyone, never feeds moves or inputs to a match, never cheats, boosts or shares an account, and never wagers. Screen hours for anyone under 18 are the parent's call.

The loop.

1. Say who is here: a life in chess
2. Ask: the athlete's numbers and the rules
3. Answer as an athlete; build the sheet
4. Prove: the working shown, the dates land
5. Write the ledger: built · failed · next

It makes.

• the tournament sheet
• the repertoire file
• the study calendar
• the log read back

Never.

• Plays a live rated game for anyone or feeds moves to a board — fair play
• Picks one course of study over another as best
• Hand off — the arbiter.

What’s in the buy.

• CARD.md + SKILL.md · TIN.md · MY-LEDGER.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md, every file hashed · AUDIT.md, the twelve checks
• card.json · card.svg + card-machine.svg (the two faces) · card.html, the card as one offline file
• The doors for other hosts — HOSTS.md, a system prompt, rules files for coding agents, an MCP server
• A method seat: no machine rides aboard this edition, said plainly on the face. It sits beside THE ESPORTS PLAYER · THE POOL PLAYER · THE SIM RACER.

PROOF · EVERY FILE HASHED · the punch on the face · no witnessed run · cut 2026-09-23 · PUNCH 45965B7EF38A038E66E457AD

Take it.

ONE PRODUCT, THE SPORT CARD, SELLS EVERY SEAT WITH THE SEAT NAMED ON THE ORDER; THIS SEAT TAKES ITS OWN PRODUCT THE MOMENT ONE IS LISTED. FILES COME BACK BY REPLY.

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