Free, open-source chess platform with zero ads, zero paywalls, and a full suite of tools.
Historical game database with over 10 million games, player bios, a forum, and a puzzle archive.
The world's strongest open-source chess engine, used in nearly every major platform.
Open-source neural network chess engine trained through self-play, with a distinctive style.
AI engine trained to predict human moves at specific Elo levels, for realistic sparring.
Cloud database of 40M+ chess positions with optimal engine moves, built for opening research.
The governing body of chess. Official ratings, world championship news, and the Laws of Chess.
Daily chess news, tournament reports, and analysis articles from ChessBase.
Live ratings tracker for the world's top players, with tournament calendars and rating charts.
Open dataset of all Lichess games, available for free bulk download in PGN and other formats.
Online interface to Syzygy endgame tablebases, with perfect play for positions up to 7 pieces.
Continuous live tournament between the world's strongest chess engines.
Wiki covering all aspects of chess engine programming, from search algorithms to evaluation.
Personalized opening explorer that analyzes your games to show your actual opening stats.
Free open-source opening repertoire trainer with spaced repetition, for any PGN file.
Opening explorer that visualizes common paths through the opening phase as a decision tree.
Free daily chess puzzles with a large archive, filterable by theme and difficulty.
Speed tactics trainer: solve as many puzzles as possible within a time limit.
Free chess training combining spaced repetition for openings, blindfold tactics, and endgames.
Pattern recognition trainer using real rapid and blitz positions to build fast tactical vision.
Strategy trainer for positional concepts and middlegame planning through interactive problems.
Endgame training with positions from basic K+P endings to complex rook and queen endgames.
Visualizes evaluation trends and lets you explore your games with engine commentary.
Curated PGN game files organized by player, opening, and tournament for free download.
Archive of millions of FICS games, available for free bulk download by month.
Weekly chess news and PGN download service covering all major tournaments, running since 1994.
Searchable game database with millions of games, an opening explorer, and player statistics.
Official FIDE rating lookup and list archive, plus a performance calculator.
Saint Louis Chess Club's YouTube channel, with GM lectures and tournament broadcasts.
YouTube chess channel by Stjepan Tomic with opening repertoire videos and middlegame concepts.
Free YouTube series by IM John Bartholomew on foundational chess principles for beginners.
Database of OTB tournament results used by organizers worldwide for pairings and reporting.
Lichess's free live broadcast feature, covering major OTB tournaments in real time.
Q&A community for chess players covering rules, strategy, history, and general chess questions.
Chess interview podcast hosted by Ben Johnson, with GMs, authors, and adult improvers.
ChessBase's live tournament coverage with real-time boards, engine analysis, and commentary.
Official site of the Grand Chess Tour, the annual circuit of elite over-the-board events.
Independent rating lists for chess engines, tested by a volunteer community.
Free, open-source chess server with over 60 variants alongside standard chess.
Open-source strategy server with chess variants, draughts, Go, Backgammon, and more.
Official FIDE tournament calendar listing FIDE-rated and FIDE-recognized chess events worldwide.
Analytics tool for your Lichess or Chess.com game history with detailed stats and trends.
Free, open-source chess training app for tactics, opening drills, and game review.
Creates animated GIF, MP4, and WebM videos from a PGN game for sharing on social media.
PGN sharing tool: paste a game, get a shareable link with a built-in interactive board viewer.
Free browser-based chess utilities: a PGN editor, animated GIF creator, and puzzle editor.
Compare your rating across FIDE, USCF, Lichess, Chess.com, and other rating systems.
Free, open-source chess database and analysis GUI for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Free, open-source chess database and PGN viewer with a clean interface for game management.
Web interface for FICS, one of the original free online chess servers.
Chess platform focused on play against bots of varied personalities, with minimal setup.
Free analysis tool that highlights brilliancies and key moments, cleanly presented.
Analyzes games for brilliancies and accuracy scores, with a shareable results summary.
Wordle-style daily game: guess the opening move sequence from a real master game.
Daily game where you guess the sequence of best moves played in a real master game position.
Puzzle game where you sort the top engine moves by evaluation rather than finding the best move.
Simple trainer for drilling chess board coordinate recognition quickly and accurately.
Reference site with illustrated lists of tactics, checkmate patterns, and strategic concepts.
Encyclopedia of chess variants with rules, history, and links to playable implementations.
Browser-based chess tools: glossary, puzzle generators, board editors, and training utilities.
Lichess classroom tool for teachers to create classes, assign students, and run tournaments.
Correspondence chess platform with online play, tournaments, and analysis tools.
Free analytics for Chess.com players with detailed performance breakdowns and opening stats.
Directory of chess streamers and content creators, with news aggregation and viewer statistics.
Viewership stats and peak audience data for major chess tournaments across streaming platforms.
Podcast from the Chess Dojo team with improvement discussions and titled player interviews.
Online rapid chess tour with the world's top players, organized by Play Magnus.
Free browser tool to download and analyze your Lichess or Chess.com games with Stockfish.
Chess improvement resource with guides, rating comparisons, and structured advice.
Free offline chess training software with engines, tactics, openings, and a competition system.
Free Windows chess GUI supporting hundreds of engines, built for tournaments and analysis.
Lichess's community forum, covering improvement, platform features, and general chess topics.
Chess.com's community forum with millions of members and active discussions on all things chess.
An interactive force-directed graph of all 3,704 ECO chess openings, colored by volume.
Reddit community for chess newcomers, with Q&A, analysis requests, and a beginner wiki.
Reddit's chess meme community, known for absurdist humor and an obsession with en passant.
Daily chess roguelike where you navigate as a chess piece, capturing enemies to survive.
Video versions of the Perpetual Chess Podcast, Ben Johnson's long-form chess interview series.
Enter your Chess.com or Lichess username and get a start/stop/keep-doing report from your games.