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Aimchess
Personalised AI coach that analyses your online games and builds a weekly training plan around your weaknesses.
Chess Tempo
The tactics workhorse. Millions of rated puzzles, endgame trainer, openings trainer, and a serious game database.
Chess.com Game Review
Chess.com's built-in AI-powered Game Review with a coach avatar that walks you through each move.
Chessable
Spaced-repetition chess courses from elite authors, built on a MoveTrainer that remembers what you've forgotten.
ChessBase
The professional desktop software for database work, deep analysis, and tournament preparation. Now at ChessBase '26 with AI annotations.
Chessbook
Opening repertoire builder that recommends moves by win-rate at your rating, not just engine evals. Formerly Chess Madra.
Chessify
Cloud engine analysis in a browser. Run Stockfish at massive server speeds without installing anything.
Chessiverse
Play against 1000+ human-like AI bots with personalities, each built on the Maia2 neural network and calibrated to a rating.
Chessvision.ai
Scan any chess position — websites, YouTube videos, books, photos — straight into engine analysis with computer vision.
DecodeChess
Explains engine moves in plain English — why a move is strong, not just that it is.
Fritz 21
ChessBase's play-and-train program. Sparring at your level, AI voice commentary, and a Style Engine that mimics the legends.
Leela Chess Zero
Neural-network chess engine trained via self-play. Strategic, human-like play that often disagrees with Stockfish.
Lichess Analysis Board
Free, open-source, ad-free analysis with Stockfish in the browser and a serverless cloud engine for deeper dives.
Listudy
A free, open-source alternative to Chessable. Build a repertoire, drill it with spaced repetition, no paywall.
Maia Chess
The research-grade human-like chess AI. Play against Maia at any level and analyze games by what humans at your rating would do.
Noctie.ai
Conversational AI chess coach that talks through your moves, suggests plans, and plays practice games with explanations.
Stockfish
The world's strongest open-source chess engine. Free, free forever, and powering most of the other tools on this list under the hood.
Take Take Take
Magnus Carlsen's chess app. Play, follow elite events, and get plain-language AI explanations of every game you finish.
WintrChess
Free, open-source game review with Chess.com-style move classifications and accuracy scores. Unlimited analyses, no paywall.