Openings, puzzles and play, finally connected.

KayChess turns your games into your training. Connect your repertoire to the games you play, every miss drilled. Solve puzzles built from the themes you keep getting wrong. Sharp insights into your style, your typical mistakes and what to work on next.

A visualisation puzzle: play three moves in your head, then find the tacticA visualisation puzzle: play three moves in your head, then find the tactic
Puzzles

Advanced tactics and visualisation

Solve puzzles on one tactical theme or any combination of them. Visualisation has you play the first moves in your head before you find the blow. Blunder Check turns the tables with tactics against you, so you learn how to defend. Failed puzzles come back: replay a session from the ones you got wrong. Build your own puzzle sets and solve them again and again for timed repetition practice.

Exploring an opening chapter with engine moves and annotationsExploring an opening chapter with engine moves and annotations
Openings

Build your efficient repertoire

Import a PGN or build chapters on the board, and export the whole repertoire whenever you like. Use the Skip rare lines feature and learn only what you will actually meet over the board. The position trainer teaches each line, then examines you on it, and Learn hard moves keeps coming back to the moves you miss most. Explore any position with master statistics, engine evaluations and your own annotations.

Play with Coach: a blunder card offering a take-backPlay with Coach: a blunder card offering a take-back
Play

A human-like bot and a coach

Maia plays like a person of the rating you choose, mistakes included. With the coach on, leaving your repertoire shows the right move, and a blunder gets a reason - too fast, a hanging piece, a missed tactic - and a take-back.

The analysis board with engine lines and the moves tableThe analysis board with engine lines and the moves table
Analysis

An analysis board that knows your book

Paste a FEN or a PGN, or open any game from your history. Candidate moves come with master play rates, engine evaluations and a mark when a move is in your own repertoire.

Scouting: results by colour and time control, repertoire coverage and leaksScouting: results by colour and time control, repertoire coverage and leaks
Scouting

Connect Lichess or Chess.com

Your games are fetched and analysed in the background. Scouting shows how you score by colour and time control, finds the book moves you missed against your own repertoire, and turns your mistakes into suggested training: puzzles from your blunders and opening lessons on the lines you drifted from. Scout other players and check if your prep would work against them.

And more

  • Coach access to your account history and openings
  • Special drills for kids and absolute beginners
  • Try your openings knowledge with Position Practice against the bot
  • Learn time management with Time Pressure against the bot
  • Scout any Lichess or Chess.com player before you face them
  • Forcing Moves - drill checks, captures and threats

Ready?

An account keeps your repertoire, presets and history. It takes a minute.

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