What players are saying

▲ Recommended 2 hrs

Excellent, very clear program for beginners and not only. Definitely worth the money. I liked it as a beginner learning chess! Thanks to the developer.

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▲ Recommended 1 hrs

The program has a great selection of functions. More tactical exercises would be a welcome addition. The program could use more variants. There are many variants that can be played with standard pieces on a standard board.
Examples include Extinction Chess, Knight Relay Chess, Anti-Chess and Three Checks Chess.
The games from grandmaster play would be better if more moves required input from the user. The games could be used to estimate the rating of the user.
The program is still in development, and I am hopeful that some of these ideas can be added. For starting players the program is already very good. Material for more advanced players would be a welcome addition.

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▲ Recommended 13 hrs

the game is nice, i like it and i use it a lot for local game analysis but it shows only the lines, and does not rate the moves. the tutorials are fine, not very advanced and the opening tutorials are not very deep explained. there is game review but i can't change it from the default engine to stockfish and(the default is bad). the bots are nice, the best part in my opinion is the guess the move. sometimes the moves aren't explained very well, but its fine. there are something like 200 puzzles i think, but the algorithm isn't that smart and repeating the same puzzles. the tools are good for beginners nut the move highlighter can see brilliant sacrifices ...

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Latest updates

Update 1.36 Stats

49 days ago

Stats:Tutorials and Find the Move now have a dedicated stats screen where you can see your progress. I will probably improve this later and show stats for each individual game as well.Find the Move:Updated Bobby Fischer's games.Added more explanations, moves to find and variations.ExhibitionAdded more variety to the default engine, so it won't always play the same move in the same position.MenusMade more menus work with light mode.AnalyticsAdded completely anonymous analytics, to keep track of general player stats.The things I track:-Tutorials/Find the moves games completed-Number of Give ups, correct and wrong moves-Game started, checkmate and stalemate.-Which game modes are opened and closedNo information is stored about any user.

Update 1.35 Exhibition Improvements

76 days ago

Here are some quality of life improvements to Chess ToolsI've updated some aspects of the exhibition mode:Added an undo move buttonAdded a review game button permanently thereAdded arrows under the game logAdded a preview for the position and variant to the play menuAdded a way to play from a custom positionAdded some default options to play from certain openingsYour last ten games in standard chess will be saved automatically.You can then access them in the analysis board under "Recent Games".They will overwrite the oldest game if you already have 10 games saved.Added a toggle for the coordinates in Coordinate Practice.So you can practice without any guide from the sides of the board.Bug fixes:Fixed a rare bug where castling would be attempted by the default engine and fail in chess 960Fixed coordinate practice breaking when set to 3d modeFixed Duck Chess not allowing a first duck move when on Select and ClickFixed Duck Chess not awarding a win in the rare event of a stalemateFixed 2 bishop and king vs king being considered a drawn positionShort term plans for improvements:Review of Fischer, Kasparov and Karpov gamesAdding engine hints into exhibition gamesShowing captured piece count on the side of the boardAdding more variants like king of the hill and 3 check

Update 1.34: Alekhine

182 days ago

-Added 20 new games from Alexander Alekhine-Reviewed and updated Mikhail Tal's games-Added new classical 3d piece set:-New controls:Hold alt and right click to draw squares without draggingWASD - moves the camera in 3d modeQ - moves the camera up in 3d modeE - moves the camera down in 3d mode

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