Your AI chess coach.
Play, review, and train with analysis that understands how humans actually play. Chessdrive tells you not just the best move, but the move you should have found, and why.
Free to start on iPhone and Android.
Tap any piece. Play a move and see what both engines make of it.
Morphy vs Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard, Paris 1858, the finish.
- Stockfish and Maia3 run on your device
- 5 app languages, coach answers in 20
- Works with Chess.com and Lichess
Everything you need to actually improve.
Ask why, in plain English.
Your conversational AI coach explains any position the way a strong friend would: why a move is a mistake, and exactly what to play instead. No engine jargon. It answers in 20 languages.
The best move, and the move you should have found.
Stockfish gives you the truth. Maia3, a model trained on millions of human games, gives you the practical truth: what players at your exact rating actually play in this position. Chessdrive shows you both, side by side, so you stop chasing engine moves you were never going to find.
Your opening repertoire
Answer a short questionnaire about how you like to play. Chessdrive generates a full opening repertoire for both colors, built around your style, not a memorized book.
Spaced repetition drills
Your repertoire gets scheduled with FSRS, the same algorithm serious learners use. You review each line right before you would have forgotten it.
The Woodpecker Method
One fixed puzzle set, solved in repeating cycles, each cycle faster and sharper than the last. The tactical training method strong players actually use.
Game review
Accuracy by phase plus a full brilliant-to-blunder breakdown, with critical moments that jump you to the turning point. Import from Chess.com or Lichess, or paste a PGN.
Play
Rated games online in bullet, blitz and rapid, plus a Maia3 opponent you can set to any rating from 600 to 2600. Send a private link and play a friend.
Puzzles
Themed puzzles tuned to your rating, including puzzles generated from your own games so you train on the patterns you keep missing.
You do not have to figure out what to practice.
Chessdrive builds a 12-week curriculum around your rating and your goals, then hands you a short plan every single day: one game to review, one set of puzzles, one opening line to drill. Beginners get a learn-first track. Improvers get a track that leads with their own games.
Open the app, do the plan, keep the streak.
- Review your last gamevs eltldf, 10 min rapid
- 8 puzzles at 1420Fork and deflection
- Drill the Italian, 4 lines2 lines due for review
From game to improvement in three steps.
- 1
Play or import a game
Play in-app or import from Chess.com, Lichess, or a pasted PGN.
- 2
Choose the rating to analyze as
Set the rating you want to be measured against. Analysis adapts to you.
- 3
Review humans and engine, side by side
See what real players at your level would play next to the engine's best move.
- Dark mode
- Works offline, engines run on your device
- English, Türkçe, Português, Español, Français
Free to start. Premium when you are ready.
Start with a free trial. Trial length and price vary by plan and region.
Free
Everything you need to get started.
- Play vs human-like Maia3
- Daily puzzles
- Analysis board
- Game review basics
Premium
Free trialUnlock the full coach.
- Unlimited game reviews
- Conversational AI Coach
- Personal opening repertoire
- Spaced repetition drills
- The Woodpecker Method
- Online rated play
- Advanced stats and progress
Frequently asked questions
Learn the ideas behind the app.
We write up what actually moves a rating: how to read a game review without being fooled by the labels, which puzzles transfer to real games, and what an engine number does and does not mean. Free to read, in five languages.
- Playing
Chess Openings by Rating: Which Ones Are Actually Findable
No opening is simply the best at every rating, and every serious source on the topic refuses to claim otherwise. We built a first party dataset instead: Stockfish 18 and Maia3 across 14 openings, 28 positions and seven rating bands from 1000 to 2200, showing where the average player actually finds the engine's move and where a popular opening only works because the opponent has to cooperate too.
16 min read - Training
Chessable Review: MoveTrainer, Pricing and Real Alternatives
Chessable's MoveTrainer runs one fixed eight step interval ladder for every move in every course, with a full reset on a miss. Here is what that means in practice, what Chessable actually costs and does well, and Chessdrive's own generated FSRS numbers showing what a per move retention scheduler does instead.
12 min read - Playing
Play Chess Against Computer: How to Actually Choose
Play chess against computer has three real answers, not one: Lichess's free numbered levels, Chess.com's roster of over a hundred named bots, or an app that trains its opponent on human games instead of capping an engine's search. Here is what each difficulty setting actually changes under the hood, why that produces bots that play five good moves and then hang a piece, and an honest decision framework for which option to pick.
10 min read
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The coach that shows you the move you should have found. Free to start on iPhone and Android.