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24 alternatives to Peck

Chess mastery through the Woodpecker Method

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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    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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    Improve your chess passively with every new tab

    2022 · chromewebstore.google.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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    Transform Your Chess Skills with AI-Powered Training

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

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    Turn chess tactics into muscle memory

    Dec 2025 · discochess.com · its alternatives →

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    Scan score sheets and generate chess games in seconds.

    2024 · chessscanner.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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    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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    2D chessboard scanner & analyzer to calculate the best moves

    2021 · play.google.com · 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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    Learn Chess notations to analyse, visualise and review games

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    A new chess puzzle to solve every day

    2022 · 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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    Recreating battles from history in chess

    2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello! I created SpicyChess(https://spicychess.com) because I wanted a tactics training app that would have the following features: - Spaced Repetition. - Countdown time to simulate blitz Chess where you have to find the best move quickly. - The ability to save puzzles for later review. I'd love to hear any feedback that you may have !

    2023 · spicychess.com · its alternatives →

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    A fun and free way to learn chess.

    2014 · chesscademy.com · its alternatives →

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    I continue my experiment of transposing classic games onto an irregular grid. I've previously released variants of minesweeper and checkers. And now I'd like to share my variant of Chess. Chess can be a pretty punishing game, but I thought this was nevertheless a way to make it even more challenging by making it trickier to anticipate your opponent, even though both players still have the same information. From the playtests I've done, that challenge is pretty compelling. It also seems to be more fun at 2 people, where both players keep surprising one another.

    2024 · polyreplay.com · its alternatives →

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    Precision Thinking Practical Living

    2019 · reinechess.com · its alternatives →

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    Stop grinding tactics. Master Positional Chess & Strategy

    Jul 2026 · chessneurons.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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    A chess engine implementation inspired by AlphaZero, using MLX for neural network computations and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) for move selection.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24MO

    rearrange the chess pieces so that the number of pieces threatening each square matches the large number in that square? pieces move freely https://chedoku.com/#dailypuzzle

    2023 · its alternatives →

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