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Learn your opening on the board, not from a book

Pick an opening; the machine plays the variation against you and Stockfish explains every move. Go wrong, take it back, try again.

Try it now, no sign-up

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You play White. Follow the arrow and play e4: drag the piece or click it.

Not a book. An opponent.

  1. 1

    Choose your opening

    Caro-Kann, Sicilian, London… every variation of 80 openings.

  2. 2

    Play the machine

    It plays the line you chose; leave the theory and the move is taken back with the reason why.

  3. 3

    Repeat until it sticks

    Lines you play cleanly come back rarely, the tricky ones often.