Chesstempo.com – Enhance your chess skills with tactics, endgames, and openings training. Play online with integrated cloud engine analysis.
The Chess Tempo app delivers a mobile and tablet optimized interface for all Chesstempo.com features.
Key features currently supported:
- CHESS TACTICS TRAINING
- Sharpen your tactical vision by solving from a vast library of over 100,000 puzzles.
- Includes both winning combinations and defensive problem types.
- Premium members can train against advanced custom sets designed to target weaknesses, such as:
- Sets focused on specific tactical motifs like pins, forks, or discovered attacks.
- Sets based on your past mistakes, letting you retry problems until mastered.
- Spaced repetition sets that prioritize problems you struggle with over those you solve consistently.
- Note: Custom sets can be used in the app but must first be created on the Chesstempo.com website.
- PLAY ONLINE
- Challenge other Chesstempo members in real chess games.
- Supports live and correspondence (turn-based) games.
- Receive a comprehensive post-game analysis for every rated game. Our analysis is powered by a distributed cluster of hundreds of Stockfish instances, delivering high-quality results within seconds.
- Premium members can have tactical puzzles extracted from their rated games, available for solving in the tactics trainer and accessible via the advanced custom sets feature.
- OPENING TRAINING
- Build and manage multiple Black and White opening repertoires.
- Import repertoires via PGN files or by manually entering moves on the board.
- Train your openings using a spaced repetition algorithm.
- Focus training on a specific repertoire branch, a single repertoire, or all repertoires of one color.
- Option to set a maximum training depth.
- Train specifically on moves that are proving most difficult to memorize.
- Add personal comments to positions or moves and view public comments from other users.
- Attach engine evaluations or standard chess annotations (e.g., +=, ?!) to repertoire moves.
- Export your complete repertoire, including comments and annotations, to PGN.
- View graphs tracking your learning progress and history over time.
- Utilize the opening explorer to select moves for your repertoire (free members are limited to a 10-move depth).
- Premium members gain access to cloud engine analysis for any position within their repertoire.
- ENDGAME TRAINING
- Practice with thousands of endgame positions (3 to 7 pieces) derived from actual games.
- Access over 14,000 unique positions.
- Free members can train with 2 new positions daily.
- Premium members enjoy:
- More positions available per day.
- Custom sets to target specific endgame types, focus on mistakes, or employ spaced repetition. Note: Some custom set types must first be created on the Chesstempo.com website before use in the app.
- GUESS THE MOVE
- Study master games by predicting the next move and receive a score based on how closely you match the grandmaster's play.
- ANALYSIS BOARD
- Analyze any position using powerful cloud engines (Premium feature). Cloud analysis preserves your device's battery while offering superior processing power. Diamond members can request up to 8 analysis threads, evaluating positions many times faster than a local engine.
- Set up positions by pasting FEN strings or using the built-in board editor.
- Review completed tactics puzzles in-depth to better understand the solution and key ideas.
