The chess study room
Learn chess from the greatest books ever written.
Tactics, strategy, endgames, guided master games, adaptive puzzles and sparring bots: one graded course of study, distilled from thirty-six of the finest chess books, with every lesson tracing back to its source.
For the raw beginner and the club player alike: start where you belong and climb from there.
Free to start: no card, no ads.
- 36
- great books
- 10
- tracks
- 1000s
- of puzzles
- One
- patient coach
How it teaches
The wisdom of the masters, carried out with the patience of a machine: you play, and it explains.
Play on a real board
Every idea is worked out on the board, not memorised from a list. Drag a piece, play the winning line, and the trainer answers back: moves checked for legality at every step.
Straight from the books
The curriculum is distilled from thirty-six of the greatest chess books ever written. Every explanation names the master and the source it comes from, so you always know where the idea was born.
Guided master games
Walk through the classic games one move at a time, with a note at each turn: why this move, what it threatens, what the plan is. The games the world studies: here you study them too.
Adaptive puzzles
A deep puzzle bank served against your own rating: harder when you are sharp, gentler when you slip. You train on the sound rather than the answer key.
Sparring bots
Test what you have learned against a ladder of bots, each with its own strength and style. Play a full game, then come back to the lesson that would have saved you.
Learning science, quietly
Spaced repetition, mastery tracking and sequential unlocking work in the background. You simply practise; the system remembers what you have earned and what needs review.
One curriculum
Six tracks, from first move to endgame technique.
Every part of the game a player is expected to command, arranged as a single path: follow one track end to end, or work across all six.
Each track is broken into units and short graded levels. A unit opens with the idea explained plainly, then puts it straight to work on the board: a pin to spot, a pawn break to find, a rook ending to convert. Clear a level, earn your stars, and the next one opens: the way a good coach paces a student.
See it in play
A calm, uncluttered board and a coach's voice at your shoulder.
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
Savielly Tartakower
Simple, honest pricing
The opening units of every track are free for as long as you like. Pro unlocks the full course: every track, every level, the puzzle arena and the sparring bots: for $12.99/mo, $99/yr, or a $179 founding lifetime.
Begin at the beginning.
The first units of every track are open. Start with a single tactic; end with a plan of your own.