Chessalto makes your chess
sharper, steadier, and more consistent.
Learn chess patterns with guided lessons, tactics puzzles and spaced repetition. Practice openings and review your games. Built for beginners and improving players who already know the rules. Start training free.
- 12
- patterns, in order
- 5
- explained openings
- 10
- minutes a day
Not sure yet? Solve three puzzles below. Free daily training, no card, no account needed to try.
Meet your daily queue
Nothing to
figure out
Chessalto isn't another puzzle rush. A short placement finds your level, and the guided path tells you exactly which pattern to learn next.
Every pattern you meet gets its own review schedule, so the queue becomes more yours every day you train.
- Free pieces
- Checkmate in one
- Forks
- Pins
- Skewers
- Back-rank mates
- Discovered attacks
- Checkmate in two
- Deflection
- Attraction
- Trapping pieces
- Promotion tactics
- in order, one at a time
From random puzzles to durable patterns
Stop solving the same tactic over and over and forgetting it by Friday. Learn a pattern once, drill it, and let the scheduler decide when you see it again.
A day on the path
Learn
One pattern, one lesson
A short explanation of one idea - forks, pins, back-rank mates - and a position where you play the key move yourself.
Drill
Six puzzles, one idea
Real puzzles at your level that all hide the same pattern. You start seeing it before you go looking for it.
Review
Back before you forget
The scheduler decides when you see it again. Solve it cleanly and it returns in days, then weeks; miss it and it comes back tomorrow.
Ten minutes a day. The order matters: you learn, you drill, and the scheduler does the remembering.
Three puzzles. No account.
Find the best move for the side to play. Everything here is checked in your browser and nothing is saved.
You do the thinking.
Chessalto keeps score.
Every solve updates your Alto Score, your Chessalto training level (not a FIDE or Lichess rating), and reschedules the pattern you just met.
- Solved fast and clean
- Back in about a week.
- One slip on the way
- Back sooner, before the idea fades.
- Missed it
- Back tomorrow, and again until it sticks.
- Outgrown it
- Graduates one rating band up, a step harder.
- A tactic you keep failing elsewhere
- Becomes its own card in your queue.
Openings you actually remember.
A repertoire trainer, not a move list. Learn a line with the coach spelling out each move, practice it without help, then drill it against the clock. The lines you know come back on the same schedule as your tactics.
Start with the Italian Game, the London System, the Caro-Kann, the Scandinavian, or the Vienna Gambit. More courses as we go.
Explore opening courses- 14. Nxe5?Missed tactic+2.4 → +0.3
- 23. Rd1??Blunder+0.1 → -3.1
- 31. Qh5!Only move-3.1 → -0.8
Your games, your mistakes.
Import from Chess.com, Lichess, or a PGN file. Stockfish runs on your device and points at the moments that changed the game, so you review your own positions instead of someone else's.
The explorer lets you poke at any position with the same engine, next to the Masters opening database, to see what the strong players did from there.
See how game review worksPuzzles come from the Lichess puzzle database (CC0). Chessalto is not affiliated with Lichess, Chess.com, or FIDE.
Before your first session
What you can practice, what is free, and where to start.
See how training works- What is Chessalto?
- Chessalto is a chess training app with guided tactics lessons, opening practice and game review. A personal training queue brings patterns back for spaced repetition as you learn.
- Is Chessalto free?
- Daily training, spaced reviews, the guided path and manual PGN game review are free. The free plan also includes the Italian Game, London System and Caro-Kann. Premium adds the full opening catalog and automatic game imports.
- Is Chessalto suitable for beginners?
- Chessalto is for beginners and improving players who already know how the pieces move and the basic rules. Placement helps choose a starting level, and the guided path starts with ideas such as undefended pieces and checkmate in one.
- How does spaced repetition work for chess?
- Spaced repetition means returning to a pattern across separate practice sessions. Chessalto schedules reviews using your training results, so practice includes both new material and patterns you have already met.
- Can I review games from Chess.com or Lichess?
- Yes. You can import a PGN file for free and review it with Stockfish analysis in your browser. Premium adds automatic imports from a connected Chess.com or Lichess username. Chessalto is not affiliated with either service.
Make it stick.
Daily training is free. Forever. No card, no metering, no daily cap. Premium adds more opening courses and automatic game imports.
- FreeNow
- Your daily review queue
- Placement and your Alto Score
- The guided path: patterns, drills, reviews
- PremiumGet Premium
- The full opening catalog and repertoire practice
- Automatic Chess.com and Lichess imports
- One subscription across your Chessalto account