Chess Tools

Chess Tools is a chess learning and training game. You can study famous games, work through tutorials and tactical puzzles, play against AI opponents or a friend, and analyze your own games.

Learn from famous games

The game turns 200 famous games into interactive quests featuring Morphy, Capablanca, Fischer, Kasparov, Tal, Carlsen and others. At key positions, you guess the move, then use commentary and variations to understand the ideas behind the plays.

Tutorials and puzzles

More than 70 guided tutorials cover the rules and piece movement, opening principles, openings such as the Italian, Sicilian and Spanish, middlegame tactics and planning, and endgame techniques. More than 150 tactical puzzles let you practise checkmates, forks, opening traps and endgame ideas.

Tools for improvement

You can toggle board highlights for attacked pieces, forks, possible king moves and other information to help identify tactics and threats. The game also supports game analysis, showing mistakes and alternatives, with built-in or custom UCI engines.

Play and train

Play Regular chess, Chess960, Duck Chess, Inverted board, Knight-only games and other variants. You can face AI opponents at multiple difficulty levels, play locally with a friend, or practise board coordinates in timed and survival mini-games.

Boards and themes

Choose between 2D and 3D boards, with a range of themes to customise their appearance.