Free, open-source chess platform with zero ads, zero paywalls, and a full suite of tools.
The world's largest chess platform with play, tactics, courses, and live event coverage.
Chess training site known for its tactics trainer, opening trainer, and large game database.
Chess learning platform using spaced repetition for openings, tactics, and endgames.
Historical game database with over 10 million games, player bios, a forum, and a puzzle archive.
Free online database of millions of master games with a search interface and opening statistics.
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.
Kid-friendly chess platform from Chess.com with games, puzzles, videos, and lessons.
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.
One of the oldest online chess servers, historically popular among top grandmasters.
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.
Online chess training based on the Steps Method curriculum for beginners and intermediates.
Online chess academy by GM Avetik Grigoryan with a course library, blog, and podcast.
Structured training by titled coaches with rating-based curricula and a strong community.
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.
Cloud chess analysis with high-speed Stockfish and Lc0 on powerful remote servers.
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.
Online chess tournament management used by clubs and federations for OTB and online events.
Analytics tool for your Lichess or Chess.com game history with detailed stats and trends.
AI tool that recognizes chess positions from images, videos, and screens for instant analysis.
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.
Web interface for FICS, one of the original free online chess servers.
Browser chess game with polished visuals, a strong AI, and beginner-friendly learning features.
Chess platform focused on play against bots of varied personalities, with minimal setup.
Online chess platform where your best games become tradeable digital collectibles.
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.
Maker of the electronic chess boards used in world championships and major OTB tournaments.
Smart robotic chess board where pieces move on their own in response to online moves.
Lichess classroom tool for teachers to create classes, assign students, and run tournaments.
Chess training platform for schools and clubs with structured curriculum and gamified puzzles.
Correspondence chess server with team events and a relaxed, social atmosphere.
Correspondence chess platform with online play, tournaments, and analysis tools.
Free analytics for Chess.com players with detailed performance breakdowns and opening stats.
Generates polished video clips from chess game notation for sharing on social media.
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.
Chess analysis tool that explains engine moves in plain language for improving players.
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.
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.
German chess company behind the ChessBase database, Fritz engine, and a major chess news site.
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.
Play, review, and share chess games — Magnus Carlsen's platform for serious improvers.
Enter your Chess.com or Lichess username and get a start/stop/keep-doing report from your games.