Train

You have an extensive list of trainings that help you to materially improve your chess:

1. Basics

• Check your memory on a chessboard - you have to memorise a set of chess pieces on a board and then place them yourself on a blank board.
• Find all moves - your King is in check. Find all legal moves available to you (or your opponent).
• Becoming a knight tamer - great ways to improve your understanding of how a knight moves
• Moves between two positions - compare two positions and figure out what moves are needed to get from one to the other
• The board at a glance - visualisation exercise - memorise pieces on a board and answer questions about them (square colour, position, attacking, attacked)
• Coordinate training - click on the correct square as fast as you can
• Writing down moves of a game - write down the move that was just made by the computer

2. Tactics

• Training positions - a collection of checkmates, endgames and other tactical patterns for practice
• Learn tactics by repetition - more checkmates and tactics
• Find best move - a great function where you can replay challenging positions from your own games
• Your daily test - play puzzles against the engine
• Determine your calculating power - advanced visualisation training
• Turn on the lights

3. Games

• Play like a Grandmaster - emulate your favourite GMs by replaying their moves
• Captures and threats in a game - visualise moves from games and then say which pieces can be captured and what pieces are threatened by the opponent.
• Count moves - play through games and count all legal moves possible in a given position
• Resistance Test - play against an engine without losing more than 100 centipawns
• Learn a game

4. Openings

• Training with a book

5. Endings

• Training mates
• Mate in 1½
• Endings with Gaviota Tablebases

6. Long-term trainings

• Training on a map
• Transsiberian Railway
• Expeditions to the Everest
• The Washing Machine