Chesstempo.com offers a comprehensive platform for chess enthusiasts looking to enhance their skills through various training modules and interactive features. The Chess Tempo app extends this experience to mobile and tablet devices, making it convenient for users to train on the go.
**Chess Tactics Training:** Dive into an extensive library of over 100,000 tactical puzzles to sharpen your chess tactics. The training includes both winning and defensive scenarios, ensuring a well-rounded approach to improving your game. For premium members, the app provides access to sophisticated custom sets designed to pinpoint and target your weaknesses. These sets can focus on specific tactical motifs such as pins, forks, or discovered attacks, or they can be tailored to address your previous mistakes, offering repeated practice until you get them right. Additionally, the spaced repetition learning algorithm prioritizes puzzles you struggle with, helping you to focus on areas that need the most improvement. Note that while these custom sets can be used within the app, they must be created on the Chesstempo.com website first.
**Play Online:** Engage in chess battles against other Chesstempo users, with options for both live and correspondence games. After each rated game, you receive a thorough post-game analysis powered by a cluster of hundreds of Stockfish instances, delivering high-quality insights in just a few seconds. Premium members can further benefit by having tactics problems extracted from their games, which can then be solved within the tactics training interface using the advanced custom sets feature.
**Opening Training:** Build and perfect your opening strategies with the ability to create multiple black and white repertoires. Import your repertoires from PGN files or by directly entering moves on the board. Utilize spaced repetition to train effectively, focusing on specific branches, a single repertoire, or all repertoires of a particular color. You can also limit training to a certain depth and target moves that are resistant to learning. Enhance your study by adding comments, engine evaluations, and annotations to each move, and export your work to PGN format. Track your progress with graphs showing your learning status and history. Free members can use the opening explorer to a depth of 10 moves, while premium members can leverage cloud engines for deeper analysis of any position.
**Endgame Training:** Sharpen your endgame skills with practice from a vast collection of over 14,000 positions from real games, ranging from 3 to 7 pieces. Free members can access 2 positions per day, while premium members enjoy more daily positions and the ability to use custom sets. These sets can focus on specific endgame types, recurring mistakes, or employ spaced repetition for targeted training. Note that some custom set types need to be created on the Chesstempo website before use in the app.
**Guess the Move:** Immerse yourself in master games, playing through them and earning scores based on how closely you match the master's moves, enhancing your learning experience.
**Analysis Board:** Utilize our cloud engines for in-depth position analysis (available to premium members), which allows for high-quality analysis without draining your device's battery. Diamond members can request up to 8 analysis threads, significantly increasing the number of positions analyzed per second compared to running an engine on your device alone. Set up positions using FEN notation or the board editor, and analyze tactics problems post-completion to gain a deeper understanding of the solutions.
