Stop Playing Chess, Start Understanding It.
Interactive lessons, unlimited puzzles, and a plain-English AI coach — one connected system that turns practice into real understanding, so you finally break your plateau.
Join hundreds of chess enthusiasts in the LearnChess community
Real players learning, solving puzzles and climbing the leaderboard together — every single day.
Join the communityThe tools to improve are everywhere. The understanding isn't.
You've got engines, puzzles, and lessons — but they're scattered, and the engine's verdict is a wall of notation. So you grind without ever grasping the ideas, and you plateau. LearnChess connects all three and explains every move in plain English.
The loop that actually raises your rating
Learn the idea, drill it, understand your mistakes — then do it again, a little stronger each time.
Interactive lessons
100+ openings, 20+ endgames, and a beginner track for the fundamentals — built to teach the why behind every move.
Unlimited puzzles
Practice tactics and themed drills — forks, pins, mating patterns — plus puzzles built from your own games and mistakes.
AI coach
No cryptic engine lines. Get Stockfish's verdict explained in plain English, so the lesson finally sticks.
Stockfish tells you the move. We tell you the why.
Ask the coach anything about a position and get a clear, plain-English answer — not a wall of engine notation.
28. Nh6+ eval +5.2 depth 24 bestYou walked right past a forced mate. 28. Nh6+! sets up a smothered mate in 3 — the knight can't be captured without losing the queen, and Black is helpless after Qg8+!
Snap any board. Get the position instantly.
Spot an interesting position in a video, a book, a tweet, or on another site? Take a screenshot and LearnChess reads the board automatically — then analyze it with Stockfish and your AI coach, or turn it into a puzzle. No manual piece-by-piece setup.
Works with Lichess, Chess.com, YouTube, PDFs, books — anything on your screen.
Capture any chessboard, right from your browser
The free LearnChess Chrome extension grabs the board from any tab — Lichess, Chess.com, Reddit, a streamed game — and sends the position straight to analysis or a new puzzle. One click, no screenshots to save.
Every puzzle, lesson and game earns you Pawns
Pawns ♟︎ are your learning currency. You earn them for everything you do — solving puzzles, finishing lessons, analyzing your games — and a daily streak multiplies every reward. The more consistently you train, the faster they add up.
Climb the global leaderboard and see how you rank against players everywhere.
Everything else you'd expect — done right
Deep game analysis
Import your games from Lichess & chess.com, then explore every move with Stockfish and your AI coach side by side.
Opening repertoire
Build your personal playbook and test your recall with guided quizzes that track mastery over time.
Community puzzles
Share tactics from your own games and solve real positions created by other players — not just engine exercises.
Master coordinates
Quick, accurate board vision is the base layer of every skill above. Train your coordinates so analysis and calculation come faster.
Find out whether LearnChess is the right app for you.
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