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Rated chess puzzles at your level, by theme

Puzzles that follow you as you improve, the themes you find hardest brought back more often, and every puzzle you miss turned into a flashcard.

At your level, rated as you solve

The bank holds 33,146 puzzles from the Lichess puzzle database, rated from 400 to 2800 across 72 themes. Your rating moves with each first attempt, worked out the way Lichess does, and the next puzzle is chosen near it: easier, normal or harder, as you like.

Train one theme at a time, such as forks, pins, back-rank mates or rook endings, or a mix that practises your weakest theme every third puzzle.

Learn from what you miss

A wrong first move or a hint counts the puzzle as missed, though you can still finish it, and it comes back as a flashcard of its first move. After each answer, a sentence says why the solution works, where the rules can tell: a mate, a fork, a pin, material won.

And beyond puzzles

Training in GreyChess also takes in the rest of your chess.

  • Your mistakes: positions from your own Lichess and Chess.com games where a better move was there to find.
  • Checkmate basics: twenty-five mates in one and two from the classic patterns.
  • Puzzle races with friends, and a weekly league ranked on training, never rating.

Questions

Do the puzzles work offline?

Yes, once installed: the puzzles near your rating are downloaded the first time you train there, and then work without a connection.

How many puzzles can I solve a day?

The Free plan has a daily number of rated puzzles; Pro and Academy have no daily limit. The plans list the numbers.

More of what GreyChess does

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