ChessPivot review: scores and evidence

A1 :3Importing your games (Chess.com, Lichess, PGN files)quota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/analyser-parties-club: Chess.com, Lichess, “drop a .pgn file”, Lichess study, up to 1,000 over-the-board games.

A2 :3Automatic engine analysis of every gamefree

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/methodologie (“En chiffres” section): “Stockfish 18, depth 15 on every move of every imported game, depth 25 on demand”, “no limit”, “no cap on the number of games analysed with Plus”

A3 :3Recurring mistakes identified across all your gamesquota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/methodologie (“En chiffres — ce que vous pouvez vérifier” section): “named, counted across all of your games, then ranked by frequency and by engine-measured cost”

A4 :3Types of mistakes covered (tactics, strategy, endgame, time…)quota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/methodologie (“En chiffres — ce que vous pouvez vérifier” section): “31 error patterns, sorted into 6 axes” — tactics, king, opening, strategy, endgame, time; the patterns are listed at https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/faiblesses

A5 :3Written explanation of each mistakequota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/analyse: “why it was a mistake, what the best move was and the line that should have followed”, “the threat that was missed”.

A6 :3Stated verification of the diagnoses (procedure, rates)free

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/methodology (“In numbers — what you can check” section): “254 positions judged by hand, 21 replayed on every release”, “139 kept as confirmed flaws, 115 set aside”, “the release is rejected if any of them changes verdict: zero false positives required” (both the procedure and the rate are published)

A7 :3Tracking each weakness over timepaid

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/methodologie (“En chiffres — ce que vous pouvez vérifier” section): “every weakness tracked at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months, with its trend”

A8 :3Comparison with players of the same ratingquota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/methodologie (“En chiffres” section): “each weakness shows the share of games affected among players in your rating band (Observatory: 248 players, five bands from 400 to 2399) and says whether you are above, at or below average”

B1 :3Building a personal repertoirepaid

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/import-a-repertoire: free construction (PGN/ChessBase/Lichess study import, tree editor); https://www.chesspivot.com/en/openings (“My repertoire” area, imported account): “Suggested lines from your games” block, each suggestion showing its reason — “You leave this line on move {n} in your games ({k} times)”, “You play this opening in {n} games and it is not in your repertoire”, “At your level, {p}% of opponents answer {move} on move {n} and your repertoire does not cover that reply”

B2 :3Training the repertoire (drills, games)paid

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/openings: “Practise” drill (FSRS spaced review, due dates shown); https://www.chesspivot.com/en/openings/italian-game, “Play the game” tab: “Your opponent plays your line while it is covered, then the game continues against the engine”, “You left your line on move {n}. The engine takes over.”

B3 :3Spotting where you left your repertoire in your gamespaid

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/openings (“My repertoire” area): “Your repertoire deviations become reviews” block — “You left your line on move {n}: you played {move}, your line plays {move}”, game and date cited, then “Added to your reviews — due on {date}” with the “Review now” button

B4 :3Verification of the lines taught (engine, practice)free

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/methodology (“In numbers” section): “Every move taught in our opening pages is compared with the engine best move in the same position: beyond a one-pawn gap, the line is repaired or cut before the faulty move”, “The opponent move shown is the one players actually play at your level” (published threshold); every opening page (/en/openings/queens-gambit) shows “engine-verified continuation” and popularity shares

B5 :3Opening explorer and statisticsfree

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/openings/italian-game#explorateur: position explorer with three named databases — “Lichess masters database: titled players, classical tournaments”, “Rated Lichess games in blitz and rapid, ELO band {band}”, “Your most recent games imported into ChessPivot” — with “Engine evaluation” at every position; master games “reviewed at depth 25” on the page

B6 :3Explanation of opening plans and ideasfree

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/ouvertures/gambit-dame: plans, traps (“Elephant”), model games, an interactive board and diagrams.

C1 :3Exercises drawn from your own gamesquota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/faiblesses/fourchette-manquee: exercises per pattern with “Solved / Missed” counters; /fr/exercices: “taken from your own games”.

C2 :3Bank of tactical exercises (size, themes, rating)quota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/methodologie (“En chiffres — ce que vous pouvez vérifier” section): “more than 110,000 engine-verified exercises”, an adaptive difficulty rating (target ≈ 80%), and “good / dubious” votes that are reviewed

C3 :3Endgame trainingquota

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/exercises (Endgame group): practical endgames drawn from real games and — once the account’s games are analysed — the player’s own (“Convert the advantage” replays their unconverted winning positions first, the endgame Rush reinjects their missed mates); “Endgames to know” are graded by the tablebases, “the exact truth up to 7 pieces”

C4 :3Strategic and positional trainingquota

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/exercises (Strategy section): “Positional exercises sorted by strategic theme — pawn structures, piece activity, plans and space — with the plan explained after every answer”; three theme cards each opening its filtered training, and the plan explained at the verdict

C5 :3Training defense and alertnessquota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/exercices: 6 defence modes (vigilance, undefended pieces, threat, does this move allow, king safety, rush); /fr/methodologie: “difficulty calibrated to your ELO”.

C6 :2Training calculation and visualizationquota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/exercices: “Calculation” and “Blindfold”; no multi-level programme described.

C7 :3Difficulty matched to your real levelfree

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/methodologie (“En chiffres — ce que vous pouvez vérifier” section): “the difficulty served adjusts to aim for roughly 80% success per exercise family”

C8 :3Spaced repetition (named algorithm)paid

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/methodology: “spaced review (FSRS algorithm)”; https://www.chesspivot.com/en/openings (“My repertoire” area): “{n} reviews due today” banner, “Next due date: {date}”, “Due dates computed by the FSRS algorithm (spaced review)”, and per line “Next review: {date}”

C9 :3Personalized training planquota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/plan: “Your training, tailored to the time you want to spend on it”; /fr/le-cycle: the worst weakness comes first.

D1 :2What the free plan actually lets you dofree

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/tarifs: unlimited analyses, 20 games tracked, 3 exercises per axis plus 3 per type per day, 3 searches a month.

D2 :2Annual price of the full planfree

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/tarifs: “€64.99/year (−40%)”, €9.00/month.

D3 :3Commercial transparency (price shown, trial, cancellation)free

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/pricing, “Our four guarantees” section: “Price shown before you sign up”, “A 30-day trial with no credit card: no payment method is asked for”, “One-click cancellation from your account area: the button opens the cancellation screen directly”, “No surprise renewal: an email goes out before every renewal date, with the date and the amount of the next charge”; terms aligned

D4 :3Number of paid tiers (how simple the offer is)free

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/tarifs: a Free plan and a single paid tier, “ChessPivot Plus”, at €9/month or €64.99/year; no one-off purchases.

E1 :0Published evidence of effectiveness

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/methodologie: outside studies cited (Wilson 2019 and others), no data on how well the service itself works.

E2 :2Chess verification of the content (positions, lines)free

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/methodology: “solution verified — by the engine, by a strict geometric detector”, corpus of 254 hand-judged positions and 21 replayed on every release; the detectors' internal thresholds are not published

E3 :2Transparency of the method (algorithms, code)free

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/methodology: Stockfish 18 and its depths, FSRS, adaptive success target and SEE named; no public code and no complete technical documentation

E4 :3Marketing claims that can be checked (no overselling)free

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/a-propos: “we make no promises about rating points”; /fr/methodologie: deliberate practice accounts for about 26% of the variance.

F1 :2Courses organized by rating levelnot documented

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/apprendre: a Beginner → Intermediate → Advanced → Expert path; no rating bands up to 2000.

F2 :1Course authors named and titledfree

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/a-propos: the creator is Mathieu Morio, an engineer with no chess title; articles are signed “ChessPivot” (/fr/blog).

F3 :2Content formats (text, video, interactive)not documented

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/apprendre: written lessons plus interactive exercises; no video.

F4 :3Published method of progressionfree

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/learn (“Your path” section): “An ordered learning path, adapted to the diagnosis of your games: your level, measured from your analyzed games, orders the steps, and the most fragile pillar of your play marks where to start — the same priority as your training plan”; /en/plan: “Training tailored to you: built from the weaknesses detected in your games”

F5 :3How often the content is updatedfree

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/changelog: dated update log grouped by month (June, July, August, September 2026), “Every line below is a change that actually shipped to production, dated on the day it went live”; dated blog at /en/blog

G1 :0Playing humans online (pool, anti-cheating)

No play against humans anywhere on https://www.chesspivot.com/fr (nav: Mon plan, Exercices, Ouvertures, Adversaires).

G2 :1Realistic artificial opponentsquota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/exercices: “Convert the advantage … against an AI that fights back”; level and playing personality not documented.

G3 :2Replaying one specific position against the machinequota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/exercices: “Replay winning positions” from your own games against an AI; no opponent calibration mentioned.

G4 :0Tournaments and organized competition

No tournament on https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/exercices (the weekly Rush is timed puzzles, not a tournament).

H1 :1Platforms available (web, iOS, Android, desktop)free

Web only; no app mentioned on https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/a-propos or /fr/scanner-feuille-de-match (“your phone” means the web app).

H2 :0User ratings and reviews (stores, press)

No store listing and no third-party reviews visible; no testimonials on https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/a-propos.

H3 :1Interface languages availablefree

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr and /en: an FR/EN switcher (2 languages), with the content translated in both

H4 :3Accessibility (keyboard, screen reader)free

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/accessibility: published accessibility guide — coverage (keyboard, AA contrast, dialogs, announced regions, animations), “How it is tested” (automated WCAG 2.1 A/AA checks on ten pages in both languages plus a fully keyboard-driven journey), stated limits (“no complete human screen-reader audit yet”, keyboard piece movement not guaranteed) and contact

H5 :3Offline use and known incidentsfree

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/status: public status page — state of each component (site, database, analysis, engine), availability over 24 h / 7 d / 30 d and incidents; “Every component is probed every 30 minutes. The figures below count real measurements: not one of them is typed in by hand”, “A window with no measurement at all does not show 100%, it shows ‘no measurement’”

I1 :3Preparing for a named opponentquota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/methodologie (“En chiffres — ce que vous pouvez vérifier” section): “repertoire by colour, exploitable weaknesses, preparation lines you can add to your repertoire”; https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/adversaires

I2 :1Annotating and sharing games (studies)not documented

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/pour-les-entraineurs: the coach comments on games, exercises and openings; neither variations nor link sharing observed.

I3 :3Entering a game played at a club (photo, scoresheet)quota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/analyser-parties-club: “Photograph it [the scoresheet]: we turn it into PGN”.

I4 :3Searching your games (filters, position)quota

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/explorer-parties: “Search your games by pattern […] in plain language or with one-click patterns”.

J1 :0Access to human coaches

No access to human coaches on https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/pour-les-entraineurs (it is a tool for coaches who already have students).

J2 :0Size and activity of the community

No forum, no Discord and no member count on https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/a-propos or /fr.

J3 :3Tools for trainers, clubs and schoolsnot documented

https://www.chesspivot.com/fr/pour-les-entraineurs: an “automatic diagnosis” per student, plus homework; /fr/clubs-d-echecs: groups and club-level indicators.

J4 :3Engagement mechanics (streaks, virtual currency, reminders)free

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/pricing: “No engagement mechanics forced on you. Your progress is visible without any compulsory leaderboard: leaderboards and streaks switch off with one button in your account area, and your records, your work rating and your statistics stay on screen”; setting in /en/my-accounts (“Leaderboards and streaks”)

K1 :3Exporting your data (games, repertoire)free

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/my-accounts: “Download my data (JSON)” button — “The file holds your profile and linked accounts, every game as PGN, your repertoire as PGN, your exercise history, the weaknesses we detected and your preferences”; one-click PGN export from My games and the repertoire

K2 :3Protection of personal data (GDPR, hosting)free

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/privacy: “no third-party script […] no advertising cookie”, “The site’s server functions […] run in Vercel’s fra1 region, in Frankfurt, Germany”, Neon data in Germany; /en/legal-notice: GDPR, named processors; caveat stated on the page: the analysis engine (Render, which only receives positions) has no pinned region

K3 :2Public API and source codefree

https://www.chesspivot.com/en/api: public documented API — four read-only routes returning the account’s own data (games, repertoire, weaknesses, profile) behind a personal access token; curl examples, published rate limits, token managed from /en/my-accounts; source code not open