Exercises

Train the tactical and checkmate patterns — drawn from your own games and a verified puzzle library, picked at your level. Free, with no daily cap.

Your session

No personalised analysis yet: 5 classic positions to get started. Analyse your games for a session tailored to you.

A classic starting pointForks

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The challenge

60 seconds to find as many right moves as you can.

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The opening has no bank of its own: you train it on your real games. Master the fundamentals, revise your repertoire and fix your mistakes as you play.

Your repertoireRevise and practise your openings, move by move, at your level.

Offensive Rush60 seconds on the clock: find as many winning tactical moves from your games as you can. Score out of 100.MateCheckmate patterns — your wins, your missed mates, and the ones worth knowing.ForksOne piece attacks two targets at once: the opponent can only save one. Learn to spot the fork, sorted by the piece that delivers it.

Tactical motifsPin, skewer, discovered attack, battery: pick a motif and train it.Pin Skewer Discovered attack Battery

Remove the defenderA piece is only defended while its defender holds: capture, chase or deflect the guard, and the target falls.CCT scanChecks, Captures, Threats: before every move, list all the forcing moves. Train that reflex on your own positions.CalculationCalculate the forced sequence all the way through before you move.BlindfoldMemorise the position, then solve with the board hidden: train your visualisation.

Positional exercises sorted by strategic theme — pawn structures, piece activity, plans and space — with the plan explained after every answer.

Pawn structures

Doubled or isolated pawns, the king’s shield: learn to keep a healthy structure.

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Piece activity

Trades, development, mobility: get every piece working.

Train this theme Trade or not?

Plans and space

Space, centre, active king: build the plan and convert your advantage.

Train this theme Convert the Advantage

Good or bad move?Two candidate moves in a position from your games: which one is right? Judge, then compare with the engine evaluation.Trade or not?The trade decision, settled by the engine on your own positions — and the reason when the trade was bad.Convert the AdvantageReplay winning positions — your own games first — and learn to convert them against a resisting AI.

Sorted by what is on the board: each entry opens the lessons for one material, its “only move” series and its bank of positions from real games. The lessons are checked against endgame tablebases.

Basic matesQueen, rook, two rooks, two bishops, bishop and knight: one method per mate, played out to the end.Pawn endingsSquare, opposition, key squares, breakthrough: 15 lessons, then 10,000 endings from real games and your own.Rook endingsLucena to win, Philidor to hold, and the defences worth knowing: 11 lessons, then practice.Bishops and knightsBishop colour, promotion corner, knight against pawn, converting the extra piece.Queen endingsQueen against an advanced pawn, a rook, a minor piece: win without stalemate or perpetual check.

StalemateBoth sides of the same trap: never concede it when you are winning, force it when you are losing.Avoid it Find it

Endgame Rush60 seconds on the clock: forced mates and stalemate-free conversions. Score out of 100.

Defensive Rush60 seconds on the clock: parry the tactics you conceded in your own games. Score out of 100.Defensive vigilanceSpot the opponent’s threat before it lands: replay the positions where you allowed a fork or pin, or hung a piece, and find a move that holds.Loose pieces"Loose Pieces Drop Off": train your eye to spot every undefended piece — targets on the opponent’s side, liabilities on yours.What is the threat?See the threat before parrying it: point at the square your opponent is aiming for, in your own positions.Does this move hang anything?One candidate move, ten seconds, one answer: does it leave material hanging?King safetyThe complete course on defending your castled king: pawn shield, critical defenders, Greek gift, prophylaxis — every lesson engine-verified.

Convert Under PressureReplay the games you lost on time while winning and train to close them out.

Why these exercises? Our method, explained and sourced

Exercises

Your session

The challenge

Opening

Attack

Strategy

Endgame

Defense

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