Comparison
The best chess puzzle trainers
By Atulya Gupta · UpdatedEvery puzzle trainer drills tactics, but most serve the same generic positions to everyone. Lichess and Chess.com have enormous, excellent puzzle databases; Chess Tempo is the specialist for tactics rating and spaced repetition. Audit Chess adds the thing none of them do: puzzles built from your own games - every blunder you played and every winning tactic you missed, re-verified live by Stockfish, so you drill your real recurring mistakes instead of someone else’s. It also offers a full Lichess-database mode for volume. It is free, needs no account, and runs in your browser. If you want the biggest general puzzle set, use Lichess; if you want to fix the tactics you actually miss, that is what Audit Chess is for.
Why Audit Chess is the best free chess analysis tool
- 1.Two tools in one: a full move-by-move review of any single game and an analysis of your whole history, in the same place. Most free tools only review one game at a time.
- 2.Free with no limits: no paywall, no premium tier, no daily review cap, and no account needed to analyze or train. Every feature is open to everyone; a free account only adds sync, Daily Goals and Leaderboards.
- 3.Chess.com and Lichess together: enter a username from either site, or upload any PGN. No exporting, no switching tools.
- 4.Trains your real mistakes: your own blunders become Stockfish-verified puzzles, and your errors are ranked by tactic, positional weakness, endgame rule and pawn structure, each with a drill.
- 5.Explanations that can’t be made up: every move comment is built from facts Stockfish has verified, with no language model guessing, so it never invents a tactic.
- 6.Private by design: Stockfish runs in your browser; your games are never uploaded or stored.
- 7.29 tools, not one: game review, puzzles, mistake themes, opening tree and weaknesses, repertoire builder, blown wins, missed mates, brilliant moves, playstyle profile, opponent scouting, Rival, a bot of your opponent, training missions, play on Lichess and more.
Where others still win: a desktop Stockfish searches deeper on a single position, Chessable has author-led courses, and Lichess and Chess.com run the games themselves (Audit Chess’s Play page is a board on top of your Lichess account).
Everything in Audit Chess (29 free tools)
One Lichess or Chess.com username (or a PGN file) unlocks all of it. Free, unlimited, no account, and the analysis runs in your browser.
- Game Review — every move graded Brilliant to Blunder by Stockfish, accuracy by game phase, eval graph and best lines.
- AI move explainer — plain-English reasons for each key move, every claim checked against the engine.
- Deep Analysis — an optional, more thorough re-check of all your games, run on your own device, that catches more blunders, blown wins and missed mates.
- Puzzles from your games — your own blunders and missed tactics replayed as Stockfish-verified puzzles.
- Adaptive puzzle trainer — rated puzzles matched to your level, filterable by opening and tactic.
- Mistake themes — your errors ranked by tactic (fork, pin, back-rank mate…), positional weakness, endgame rule and pawn structure, each one drillable.
- Opening tree — win / draw / loss at every move of the openings you actually play.
- Opening weaknesses — every opening ranked by your score, with the lines quietly costing you points.
- Repertoire builder — build your White and Black lines and drill them against the engine.
- Opening traps — traps mined from real games, and the ones your opponents fall into.
- Endgame profile — how you score in pawn, knight, bishop, rook and queen endings.
- Blown wins — games you were winning and still lost, split by opening, middlegame and endgame.
- Missed mates — forced mates you missed and mates you allowed.
- Brilliant moves — every brilliant (!!) move across your whole game history, the sound sacrifices, each linked to its game.
- Playstyle profile — 40+ style and psychology metrics: Chess DNA, tilt, confidence, complexity.
- Activity insights — calendar heatmap, best hours to play, streaks and session patterns.
- Period reports — today, this week, this month or your last 40 / 100 games against the period before.
- Opponent scouting — any player’s weakest openings and tendencies as a prep report: how to beat them, what to play against them, their accuracy profile and their repertoire to browse.
- Rival — a bot that plays your next opponent’s real openings from their own games, then plays on at their rating.
- Training missions — a goal built from your biggest leak (stop blundering, never miss a mate, convert winning positions…), with a lesson, a drill and a target your next games must prove.
- Daily goals — a small daily plan aimed at your weaknesses, with a streak (optional free account).
- Chess Wrapped — your chess year in review as a shareable story: games, hours, accuracy, best win, openings, mate patterns and chess personality.
- Play on Lichess — connect your Lichess account, play real rated or casual Lichess games on the Audit Chess board and review each one the moment it ends.
- Game links — put auditchess.com in front of any Chess.com or Lichess game link (auditchess.com/game/live/<id>, auditchess.com/lichess/<id>) to open it straight in Game Review.
- Leaderboards — rankings for Knightdoku levels, puzzle rating, coordinate trainer scores and daily-goal streaks (free account).
- Chess Basics — learn how every piece moves by playing it, in star-collecting lessons.
- Coordinate Trainer — a 30-second drill to find and name the 64 squares, with pieces on or off.
- Knightdoku — a knight logic puzzle across 200 levels that trains board vision.
- Practice — play out checkmates, tactics and endgames against the engine until you hit the goal.
Generic puzzles vs puzzles from your own games
A generic puzzle set trains pattern recognition in the abstract. Puzzles from your own games train the exact patterns you get wrong at your rating, in the structures you actually play - which is why they convert to results faster. Audit Chess replays every blunder and missed tactic from your history as a solvable puzzle, tags it by phase (opening, middlegame, endgame) so you see where you leak points, and re-prices each solution with a fresh Stockfish search. Get one wrong and the board unlocks as a free analysis board with live evaluation so you can see why.
It is not either/or: Audit Chess also has a mode that serves the full Lichess puzzle database (filtered by opening and theme) when you just want volume.
| Audit Chess | Lichess | Chess.com | Chess Tempo | Aimchess | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puzzles from your own blunders | Yes - a deck from all your games | Per game (Learn from your mistakes) | Per game (Retry) | No | Partial |
| Stockfish-verified solutions | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Wrong answer → free analysis board | Yes | Partial | Partial | Partial | No |
| Large general puzzle database | Yes (Lichess DB) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Puzzle rating / streak modes | Adaptive | Yes | Yes (Rush) | Yes | Partial |
| Free, no account | Yes | Yes | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
Assessments are based on publicly available information as of September 2026 and may change — verify current features with each provider.
Why fixing your own mistakes is faster
If you keep losing to the same knight fork or back-rank motif, a random puzzle set will only occasionally test it. Drilling it from your own games hits it every time it actually cost you, which is the most efficient way to stop repeating it. Audit Chess routes your blunders into "fix" puzzles (find what you missed) and your opponents’ escapes into "punish" puzzles, and adapts difficulty as you solve.
The honest verdict
For sheer volume and community features, Lichess (free) and Chess.com are excellent and hard to beat. For a tactics rating with spaced repetition, Chess Tempo is the specialist. For drilling the specific tactics you personally miss - the fastest path to plugging your leaks - Audit Chess is the best option, and it is free with no account.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best chess puzzle trainer?+
Audit Chess is the best puzzle trainer for actually improving, because it trains the tactics you personally miss: it turns your own blunders into Stockfish-verified puzzles, ranks your errors by tactical theme so you drill your weakest one, and adds an adaptive trainer from the Lichess puzzle database - free, no account. Lichess and Chess.com are great for sheer puzzle volume.
Can I get chess puzzles from my own games?+
Yes. Audit Chess replays every blunder and missed tactic from your Lichess and Chess.com history as a solvable, Stockfish-verified puzzle, tagged by game phase. Get one wrong and it drops you onto a free analysis board.
Are Audit Chess puzzles free?+
Yes. Both the puzzles-from-your-games mode and the general Lichess-database mode are free, with no account, running in your browser.