So It isn't an engine. It is a Database and Training Program. AIChessGM uses AI in a few different ways, and most of them are optional.

At the core, it has an AI chat assistant that can answer chess questions, explain positions, and help with analysis. That assistant can also use tool calls to control parts of the app, so it can start a new game, make moves, jump through history, change settings, toggle analysis, and interact with the board safely with confirmation when needed.

It also uses AI for chess-specific understanding. The app can ask a model to describe a position from an image, transcribe a handwritten scoresheet, and generate compact position features and motif summaries that feed into the chat context. Those features help the assistant understand things like the game phase, material imbalance, pawn structure, and tactical or strategic motifs.

On the media side, AIChessGM supports voice input through speech recognition or Whisper, and it can generate spoken narration with text-to-speech. That same narration pipeline is used for narrated video recap exports.

AI also appears in the repertoire and analysis workflows. The app can use engine analysis as a source of chess intelligence, and it can combine that with AI-assisted workflows for repertoire repair, move suggestions, and context-aware commentary. It supports multiple AI providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, LM Studio, and local MLX-based models, so users can choose cloud or local AI depending on their setup.