Lichess
Free, open-source chess. Play games, analyze positions, make studies and explore openings.
FREEWelcome, knight.
You have entered a hand-made directory of chess stuff worth bookmarking. No corporate dashboard. No algorithm telling you what to study. Just useful chess websites, weird tools, puzzles, databases and places to fall into a 3-hour opening-analysis rabbit hole.
NEW! A puzzle-focused resource has joined the castle.
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♟ FEATURED: THE PUZZLE ZONE ♟
🐸 ChessFrogPractice chess tactics with a lightweight, puzzle-first experience. Good for building the habit of solving a few positions every day.
♟ PLAY CHESS
Chess.com
The giant all-in-one chess platform for playing, lessons, puzzles, analysis and community.
ALL-IN-ONEChessgames.com
A huge searchable collection of historical games. Great for exploring famous players and positions.
DATABASE⚔ TACTICS & PUZZLES
ChessFrog 🐸
Chess puzzles organized around practical tactical ideas. Solve, learn the pattern, repeat.
FEATUREDChessTempo
Serious tactical training plus opening and endgame tools. Excellent when you want structured practice.
TRAININGLichess Puzzles
Free tactical puzzles generated from real games, with different training modes and themes.
FREE📚 OPENINGS & REPERTOIRES
Lichess Explorer
Explore opening moves and browse master and online game databases while analyzing a position.
RESEARCHChessable
Courses and spaced-repetition training for memorizing openings, endgames and other chess material.
COURSESOpeningTree
Explore the openings played by specific players and investigate their recurring move choices.
OPENING DATA
🧠 LEARN CHESS
Lichess Learn
A clean place to start if you're learning the rules, piece movement and basic chess concepts.
BEGINNERChess.com Lessons
Structured lessons covering fundamentals, tactics, strategy and more.
LESSONSListudy
Community-made chess studies and training material, including opening practice.
STUDY🔧 CHESS TOOLS
Stockfish
One of the world's strongest open-source chess engines. Analyze your games and investigate positions.
ENGINE365Chess
Searchable chess game database with a massive collection of games and opening information.
DATABASEChessBase
News, games, training material and professional chess database tools.
PRO🕳 THE CHESS RABBIT HOLE
Things to search when you have accidentally opened 17 tabs:
- Kasparov's best attacking games
- Every game in the Poisoned Pawn Najdorf
- Why the Berlin Endgame is actually playable
- Random obscure gambits that definitely aren't sound
- Games where a queen sacrifice actually worked
- Chess puzzles from your own blunders
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