Frequently Asked Questions

Chess DNA is an AI-powered chess training app. Import your Chess.com or Lichess games and Chess DNA detects your recurring patterns, surfaces the mistakes that cost you the most rating, and lets you replay each one until you fix it.

Chess DNA analyzes every move in every imported game, tags the tactical and positional themes, and groups them into named patterns. Examples: Missed Tactic, Missed Pin, Missed Fork, Missed Skewer, Missed Mate (Mate-in-1 through Mate-in-5), Trapped Piece, Discovered Attack, Hanging Pieces, Back Rank Weakness, King Safety, Endgame Technique, Opening Inaccuracy, Pawn Structure, Time Pressure Blunder — and more. Patterns are ranked by how much rating each one is costing you.

The Skill Radar is your 8-dimension chess profile: Openings, Tactics, Defense, Positional, Endgame, Calculation, Time Management, and Resilience. Each dimension scores 0–99 and maps to a rank tier from Pawn to King. It updates as you play more games.

Chess DNA queues every position where you went wrong and lets you replay them grouped by pattern. You see the position, choose a move, and Chess DNA tells you whether it works. Hints, skips, and the engine's recommended move are one tap away.

By focusing your training on the patterns that actually show up in your games. Generic puzzles teach generic chess. Chess DNA teaches your chess — the exact mistakes you keep making in real games, replayed until they stop.

Chess.com and Lichess. Paste your username and Chess DNA pulls your game history and starts analyzing.

No. Chess DNA imports your public game history from your free Chess.com or Lichess account. No paid subscription on either platform is required.

Any modern web browser, iOS, and Android. Your data syncs across devices through your Chess DNA account.

Rank tier is Chess DNA's grouping of your skill score (0–99). Pawn covers 0–29, Knight 30–44, Bishop 45–59, Rook 60–74, Queen 75–89, and King 90–99. Each dimension on the Skill Radar also has its own tier.

Yes. Chess DNA only analyzes games you import yourself, and engine analysis runs locally in your browser. See the Privacy Policy for details.

Chess DNA is currently in closed beta and free for invited testers. Public release pricing will be announced when beta opens up.

The best one analyzes every move in every game, classifies mistakes into named patterns, ranks them by rating cost, and turns each pattern into targeted practice. Chess DNA does all four — import your Chess.com or Lichess games and analysis runs automatically. See the full comparison guide.

The top ones personalize practice to your actual weaknesses, not a generic puzzle queue. Chess DNA reads your imported games, finds the patterns that have cost you rating, and queues replays of the exact positions where you went wrong — so every minute of training is spent fixing a real recurring mistake.

Chess DNA is built specifically for this. It tags every move with tactical / positional themes, groups recurring themes into named patterns (Missed Tactic, Missed Pin, Missed Fork, Missed Mate, Trapped Piece, Hanging Pieces, Endgame Technique, Opening Inaccuracy, and more), and ranks each one by rating cost across your full history.

A coach watches your games, names what you do wrong, and gives you focused practice. AI tools now compress that loop without the per-hour price tag. Chess DNA imports every game you play, groups mistakes into named weakness patterns, ranks them by rating cost, and gives you targeted replay practice — the analysis-plus-practice loop a coach would run with you, automated and 24/7.

Chess DNA tracks progress on the 8-Dimension Skill Radar and updates after every game. Each pattern's rating-cost trend shows whether you're actually closing weaknesses. Your shareable Chess DNA card snapshots your skill profile at any point.

Yes — Chess DNA. It applies the same gamification ideas to chess: short focused sessions, named missions (Missed Tactic, Missed Pin, Endgame Technique, and more), an 8-Dimension Skill Radar that levels up like XP, and rank tiers from Pawn to King that work like leagues. Every session is built from your own Chess.com or Lichess games — so the practice is always exactly the mistake you keep making in real games. See the full breakdown.

Five layers: named missions (your patterns), XP-style progression (the Skill Radar), rank tiers (Pawn → King), daily replay sessions focused on your worst pattern, and a shareable Chess DNA card. Everything is generated from your own games so practice is always tied to your real performance, not a generic curriculum.

The fastest way is to look for patterns in your real games rather than guessing. Chess DNA imports your Chess.com or Lichess history, classifies every mistake by pattern (Missed Pin, Missed Tactic, Endgame Technique, and many more), and ranks each pattern by how much rating it has cost you. That ranking tells you exactly what to work on first.

Don't just look at centipawn loss. For each game, identify the key moment where the evaluation flipped, find the pattern your mistake belongs to, and check whether that pattern shows up in other games. Chess DNA automates this — every imported game gets a clear explanation, key moments, and pattern tags so you can spot recurring themes across your full history. See the full guide.

Repeated mistakes belong to a pattern. To break a pattern, you need to recognize the position type that triggers it and rehearse the right move until it's instinct. Chess DNA's replays do exactly this — they queue every position where you fell into a given pattern and let you play them again until the pattern stops appearing in new games.

Chess.com's Game Review is per-game: it tells you how that one game went. Chess DNA looks across your full history, finds patterns that repeat, ranks them by rating cost, and turns each one into a focused replay practice. It's the difference between reading one game report and getting a study plan built from all your games.

A chess pattern is a recurring position type and the move that solves it — for example, a pin you should have spotted, a back-rank mate that was on the board, or a known endgame technique. You find your patterns by looking across many games for the same kind of mistake. Chess DNA does this automatically and groups your mistakes into named patterns so they're easy to study.

Stop training on random puzzles. Training on positions that look like your real games — your openings, your time control, your skill level — transfers faster. Chess DNA pulls puzzle-like replays out of the actual positions where you went wrong, so every minute you train is directly fixing a mistake you keep making.

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