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24 alternatives to Chess Opening Trainer — Chessmate

Practice chess openings until they stick

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Chess for macOS

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Chessmate is a transformer-based model that predicts your next chess move, tailored to players around 1500 ELO on lichess. Soon it will also offer personalized models and a broader range of ELO-based models. Hopefully this can offer a new and innovative way to learn chess and enjoy playing against a uniquely challenging bot!

    2024 · chessmate.ai · its alternatives →

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    Noctie▲284

    Practice chess with a genius owl

    2024 · noctie.ai · its alternatives →

  5. 5WU

    Chess openings visualized from over 800 million Lichess games, 2 million tournament games and 1 million chess engine games.

    2019 · chessroots.com · its alternatives →

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    Master your chess openings the interactive way

    2025 · chess999.com · its alternatives →

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    Memorize a chess position, rebuild it from memory, and get an instant score. Play free to train board vision, visualization, and spatial memory.

    2025 · thememorychess.com · its alternatives →

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    A real-time move calculator for online Chess

    2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Chess AI in Java - 2005 High School Project. Contribute to theronic/chessmate development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Easily explore, analyse and practice chess openings

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    An application for learning chess openings

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Aimchess▲129

    Learn chess your way with AI tools and data driven approach.

    2020 · aimchess.com · its alternatives →

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    Transform Your Chess Skills with AI-Powered Training

    Jan 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Build, quiz, and remember your chess openings.

    May 2026 · chesslair.com · its alternatives →

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    A new chess puzzle to solve every day

    2022 · its alternatives →

  16. 16CG

    For no specific reason, I trained a neural network to generate random chess positions that look similar to positions from actual games (from lichess db). I also made it so you can condition it on some fixed pieces, and adjust the number of pieces. It turned out to be quite effective and I find it surprisingly fun and instructive to generate e.g. endgame positions with a certain pawn structure (set low temperature, place some pawns and position the kings, adjust number of pieces to get an endgame), and then figure out how to win vs. the computer in those positions. I hooked it up so that you…

    2024 · chessdream.ai · its alternatives →

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    Learn Chess notations to analyse, visualise and review games

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Find local chess players and games

    Feb 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19CA

    2020 · rootshirechess.glitch.me · its alternatives →

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    I built ChessWoodie as a platform for structured chess tactics training. Most puzzle trainers give you random puzzles. That can help calculation, but it also means you rarely see the same pattern twice, which makes it harder to build fast pattern recognition. ChessWoodie organizes puzzles into courses where the same positions repeat across training cycles. The approach is inspired by the Woodpecker Method: solving the same puzzles repeatedly until the patterns become automatic. You can try it directly in the browser. There’s a guest login if you want to jump straight into solving puzzles.…

    Jul 2026 · chesswoodie.com · its alternatives →

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    3Chess▲106

    Play three player chess online free for web and mobile

    2023 · 3-chess.com · its alternatives →

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    Chess Openings Trainer

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    ChessUp▲82

    An incredible chess board with a built-in chess instructor

    2021 · playchessup.com · its alternatives →

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    Explore data with Python & SQL, work together with your team, and share insights that lead to action — all in one place with Deepnote.

    2021 · deepnote.com · its alternatives →

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