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About ChessAlive
A modern, free place to play, learn, and fall in love with chess.
ChessAlive is a chess platform for the web, iOS, and Android built around three ideas: make playing delightful, make learning genuinely useful, and make the game feel alive. Alongside a fast, clean board, we add cinematic piece animations and ceremonies that celebrate the moments that matter — without ever changing the rules of chess.
What you can do
- Play against adaptive coach bots, or challenge a friend.
- Train with a rating-adjusted puzzle trainer and a daily puzzle.
- Learn from structured lessons and our free chess guides.
- Review any game move by move, with plain-language explanations of where it turned.
Our approach to learning
We believe most players improve fastest by understanding ideas, not memorising lines. That's why our guides focus on principles and patterns — opening fundamentals, the tactics that decide real games, and the endgames that convert advantages into wins — and why our game review explains why a move was strong or weak.
Who writes our guides
Our guides are written and maintained by the ChessAlive team — three improving club players who remember exactly how confusing chess felt at the start. Meet Lakshminathan, Vinoth, and Avinash.
Supporting the project
ChessAlive is free to play. We keep it that way through an optional Premium subscription and through advertising on our content pages. Advertising helps fund the servers, content, and ongoing development.
Contact us
We'd love to hear from you — feedback, bug reports, or partnership ideas. Email hello@chessalive.com and we'll get back to you.