Train
Free chess training tools
Everything you need to improve, from your first piece move to converting won endgames - and the analysis that turns your own games into a study plan. All free, no account, running in your browser.
Learn the fundamentals
Start here if you are new or shoring up the basics: how the pieces move, the board coordinates, board vision, and the essential checkmates and endgames.
Chess Basics
Learn how every piece moves by playing it - guide the rook, bishop, queen, king and knight around the board to collect the stars. The place to start if you are new.
Coordinate Trainer
Beat a 30-second clock finding or naming squares, as White or Black, with or without the pieces. Builds the instant coordinate recall that reading notation and calculating depend on.
Knightdoku
A knight-themed logic puzzle - one knight per row, column and colour, none touching - that trains board vision and visualization across 200 levels from 5×5 to 10×10.
Practice
Play out basic checkmates, tactical motifs and essential endgames against the engine until you hit each goal. The patterns that actually win and save games.
Train from your own games
The fastest gains come from your real games. Review them move by move, drill your own blunders as puzzles, and find the openings quietly costing you points.
Game Review
A move-by-move Stockfish review of every game - accuracy, an eval graph, every mistake and blunder, an interactive board to test alternatives, and phase accuracy.
Puzzles from your games
Every blunder and missed tactic from your real games becomes a Stockfish-verified puzzle, so you drill your own recurring mistakes instead of random positions.
Find your weaknesses
Rank every opening you play by result and surface the lines quietly costing you points, so your study time goes where it matters.
Rival
Play a bot that answers with your next opponent's real openings, at the frequency they play them, then plays on at roughly their rating once you leave their book.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best free chess training tools?+
Audit Chess covers every level for free, with no account: beginners learn how the pieces move and drill the board coordinates; improvers get unlimited game review, endgame practice against the engine, and puzzles built from their own blunders and ranked by tactical theme. It all runs in your browser.
How should a beginner start training at chess?+
Learn how the pieces move (Chess Basics), then make coordinate recognition automatic (Coordinate Trainer) and train board vision (Knightdoku). Once you can play a full game, practise basic checkmates and endgames and start reviewing your own games.
Are these chess trainers really free?+
Yes. Every trainer and the full game analysis run in your browser with no account and nothing uploaded. There is no subscription or paywalled tier.
What is the fastest way to improve at chess?+
Play regularly and study your own games: find the openings you score worst in, the mistakes you repeat and the winning positions you throw away, then drill exactly those. Audit Chess builds that study plan automatically from your Lichess or Chess.com history.