Using Obsidian as a Chess Game Database

The Trading Parallel Chess and trading share a fun truth: you can spend hundreds of hours practicing and still lose. In trading, it’s capital. In chess, it’s ELO. Both require deliberate review of past mistakes to improve. Traders keep journals. Chess players should too. I’ve found that Obsidian—a tool I already use for notes—works perfectly as a chess game database. With the Web Clipper extension and a couple of templates, every game and blunders becomes a searchable, annotated note with an embedded board. ...

January 9, 2026 · 3 min · Josep Oriol Carné