The Chess Tempo app, available on mobile and tablet devices, brings the comprehensive features of Chesstempo.com right to your fingertips. Designed for chess enthusiasts at all levels, this app enhances your chess skills through a variety of training modules and interactive play options.
Chess Tactics Training
Elevate your tactical prowess with over 100,000 chess puzzles designed to sharpen both your offensive and defensive skills. The app includes:
- Diverse problem types, ranging from winning to defensive scenarios.
- Premium members can access custom sets tailored to specific tactical motifs like pins, forks, and discovered attacks.
- Custom sets that focus on your previous errors, allowing you to practice until you get it right.
- A sophisticated spaced repetition learning algorithm that prioritizes problems you struggle with, ensuring efficient learning.
Note that while custom sets can be utilized on the app, they must first be created on the Chesstempo.com website.
Play Online
Engage in thrilling chess matches against other Chesstempo users, with options for both live and correspondence games. After each rated game, benefit from a detailed post-game analysis powered by our cluster of hundreds of Stockfish instances, delivering high-quality insights in seconds. Premium members can further enhance their learning by solving tactics problems extracted from their own games, accessible through the advanced custom sets feature.
Opening Training
Build and refine your opening strategies with the ability to:
- Create multiple black and white repertoires.
- Import repertoires from PGN or by manually entering moves on the board.
- Use spaced repetition to train your repertoires, focusing on specific branches, a single repertoire, or all repertoires of a color.
- Optionally limit training to a certain depth.
- Target moves that are challenging to learn through spaced repetition.
- Comment on positions or moves, and read others' public comments.
- Add engine evaluations and annotations to each move.
- Export your repertoire, comments, and annotations to PGN.
- View graphs that track your learning status and history.
- Utilize the opening explorer to select moves (limited to 10 moves deep for free members).
- Premium members can leverage the cloud engine for in-depth analysis of any position.
Endgame Training
Master the art of endgames with practice positions ranging from 3 to 7 pieces, sourced from real games. With over 14,000 unique positions, free members can tackle 2 positions daily, while premium members enjoy:
- Access to more daily positions.
- Custom sets that focus on particular endgame types, recurring mistakes, or utilize spaced repetition. Note that some custom set types must be created on the Chesstempo website before use on the app.
Guess the Move
Enhance your understanding of master games by playing through them and earning scores based on how well you match the master's moves.
Analysis Board
Dive deep into position analysis using our powerful cloud engines (requires premium membership). These engines run high-quality analyses without draining your device's battery. Diamond members can request up to 8 analysis threads, offering significantly more positions per second than a local engine. You can:
- Set up positions using FEN or the board editor.
- Analyze tactics problems post-completion to gain a deeper understanding of the solutions.
The Chess Tempo app is your ultimate companion for improving your chess skills, offering a rich, interactive experience tailored to your learning needs.
