Your chess academy, organized.
From first inquiry to student progress.
Families find your programs and send registration or waitlist requests. When you confirm a place, they get your class's joining instructions. Students practise on NGChess, and you assign puzzles and see who has started or solved them.
Free play with move feedback and hints, no account needed. Running a club or academy? Request a guided pilot
- Students join with a class code, no student email
- No chat with strangers
- NGChess never takes your families' payments
Teacher or coach?
Teacher loginHow it fits together
One connected workflow for your academy
Many academies piece this together from a website form, email threads and a free chess site. NGChess keeps the steps connected.
Families find your programs
A standard club page shows programs, schedule and events with honest availability: request a place, join a waitlist, or registration closed.
Requests land in your dashboard
Registration and waitlist requests stay separate. Nothing is booked or paid until you confirm it with the family.
Enroll and send joining instructions
One action marks the request enrolled and emails the family how to join the NGChess class linked to that program.
Students join with a class code
No student email or password. Between sessions they play, solve puzzles and use the tactics trainer.
Assign practice, review progress
Assign puzzles with due dates and see, per student, what is not started, attempted or solved.
When NGChess may not be what you need
If you teach one group and already use Lichess classes and studies, those are free and may be enough. NGChess is for academies that also want a public program page, registration and waitlist requests, and the handoff from enrollment to class in one place.
How it teaches
Feedback on every move, while you play
The same three steps work for your first game or your hundredth.
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See how good your move was
Each move is rated from Brilliant to Blunder, with a live win-probability bar that shows its impact.
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Get a hint when you're stuck
Hints suggest a stronger move, so you can compare it with what you were planning.
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Understand the idea
The coach explains why a move works in plain language and names the patterns on your board — openings, defenses and checkmates.
Hints, move ratings and game review use the open-source Stockfish engine.
Also included
Start without an account; a free account adds multiplayer, history and the Chess Lab.
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AI opponents
Eight difficulty levels, from first-game beginner to Grandmaster.
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Daily puzzle
A new tactics challenge every day.
Try today's puzzle -
Invite a friend
Play a friend in real time from a shared link.
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Chess Lab
Custom board sizes, piece placement and variant rules.
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History & replay
Step through past games and export PGN.
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No ads, no chat
No advertising and no messaging with strangers — just chess.
For teachers and coaches
Teach with NGChess
Run classrooms with class codes, assign puzzles, and follow each student's progress. Students join with an alias — no email needed.
For clubs, academies, and coaches
More than a club website.
Publish programs and events, collect registration or waitlist requests, enroll accepted students into class, assign practice and follow their progress.
Families send requests from your page; you confirm places and arrange payment directly. Keep the chess and tournament tools that already work for you — an event can link straight to the site that runs it.
- Launch through guided setup
- Keep programs and schedules current
- Turn visitors into registration requests
- Connect registrations to NGChess classes
- Mobile-friendly and search-ready
- Link rated events to the organizer's site
- Use it as your website or alongside your existing site
See if NGChess fits your academy
Explore the complete academy workflow, or try NGChess with one real class through a guided pilot.
