The Chess Tempo app delivers a seamless and intuitive mobile and tablet experience for all Chesstempo.com features, making it easy to train, play, and analyze chess anytime, anywhere.
Key Features Available in the App:
CHESS TACTICS TRAINING
Enhance your tactical vision by solving over 100,000 handpicked puzzles. The training includes both attacking and defensive motifs to sharpen your practical skills.
Premium members gain access to advanced personalized learning tools:
- Custom puzzle sets targeting specific themes such as pins, forks, discovered attacks, and more.
- Adaptive sets built from your past errors, helping you learn through repetition until mastery is achieved.
- Spaced repetition learning algorithm that prioritizes problems you struggle with, optimizing long-term retention.
Note: Custom sets must be created first on the Chesstempo.com website before they can be used within the app.
PLAY ONLINE
Challenge other Chesstempo users in live or correspondence chess formats. After every rated game, enjoy detailed post-game analysis powered by our distributed cluster of hundreds of Stockfish instances—ensuring fast, high-quality insights.
Premium members receive additional benefits:
- Automatic extraction of tactics puzzles from your own games, which are then available in the Tactics Trainer interface.
- These custom puzzles can also be included in advanced personal sets for deeper review and improvement.
OPENING TRAINING
Build and maintain robust repertoires for both White and Black:
- Create multiple opening books and import them via PGN or manually using the board editor.
- Train your openings using intelligent spaced repetition to ensure long-term retention.
- Customize training sessions by branch, repertoire, or color.
- Set depth limits to focus on critical lines only.
- Train specifically against the moves you find most challenging.
Additional tools include:
- Public comment threads for each position, where you can share or read insights from other players.
- Add engine evaluations (e.g., +=, ?!) and annotations to moves.
- Export your complete repertoire along with personal comments and annotations into PGN format.
Visualize your progress with interactive graphs showing learning status and historical improvements.
Free members can explore up to 10 plies deep using the Opening Explorer.
Premium members unlock unlimited depth and cloud-based engine analysis for any position.
ENDGAME TRAINING
Master essential endgame patterns using real-world positions extracted from actual games, covering 3 to 7 piece scenarios.
- Over 14,000 unique positions available.
- Free members get access to 2 positions per day.
- Premium members unlock:
- Increased daily quota of endgame puzzles.
- Custom sets targeting specific endgame types or recurring mistakes.
- Spaced repetition-based training sets (some set types must be created online first).
GUESS THE MOVE
Learn from the pros by playing through grandmaster games and testing how closely your moves align with theirs. Get scored and improve your decision-making in real contexts.
ANALYSIS BOARD
Dive deep into any position using powerful cloud engines (available to premium members). This feature saves device battery and provides lightning-fast, high-quality analysis.
- Diamond members can request up to 8 simultaneous analysis threads, dramatically increasing processing speed and depth.
- Setup positions manually via FEN or use the interactive board editor.
- Review solved tactics problems with full engine-backed analysis to better understand the underlying ideas and solutions.
Chess Tempo brings together all aspects of chess improvement—tactics, openings, endgames, and analysis—into one unified mobile experience. Whether you're a casual player or serious competitor, the app helps you train smarter and play stronger.
