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24 alternatives to KnightMaster
The Best Chess Education Platform on the Net
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. KnightMaster launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Chessmaster AI▲232Transform Your Chess Skills with AI-Powered Training
Jan 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Chess Master▲76A real-time move calculator for online Chess
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2025 · knightride.rakhim.org · its alternatives →
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Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 250 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!
2011 · multiplayerchess.com · its alternatives →
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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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ChessUp▲82An incredible chess board with a built-in chess instructor
2021 · playchessup.com · its alternatives →
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Chess pattern training. No timers, no streaks, no ratings.
Jun 2026 · boxwoodchess.com · its alternatives →
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Stop grinding tactics. Master Positional Chess & Strategy
Jul 2026 · chessneurons.com · its alternatives →
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Train chess tactics with 434,000+ curated puzzles
Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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ChessWoodie▲26I 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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Halfchess▲69Learn to be a better Chess player, playable in your browser
2017 · halfchess.com · its alternatives →
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Josh Waitzkin: the basis for Searching for Bobby Fischer
2015 · content.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
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A better, more fun way to learn and train chess!
2018 · playmagnus.com · its alternatives →
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Chess Puzzle Practice Platform
2025 · cpd-chi.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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We built ChessBoss at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon this week. It didn’t make the top 10 but I thought Hacker News might think it’s pretty cool. https://devpost.com/software/chess-boss There are these really cool smart chessboards that can suggest moves and track your games... but they’re $400 and weigh 19 pounds. And of course there are apps that can analyze games but tracking and inputting games by hand is a huge pain. Or fully-digital chess apps... but board games are way more fun in real life! We wondered: “why can’t you just do that in software and bring the best…
2019 · devpost.com · its alternatives →
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Fascinating puzzle game based on the Knight's tour problem
2024 · knightsgraph.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Chess knight puzzles. 900+ levels. No ads. Just thinking.
Feb 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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The traditional and the best game of brain you will love
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Improve your chess skills with lessons by Magnus Carlsen
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A game for Chess lovers. Packed with Immersive Graphics.
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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