Tabiya.

Free forever · runs in your browser · no account needed

New? Boost to 1000.
Stuck? Learn your plans.

Under 1000, we hand you two complete repertoires with every move explained. Past that, a tabiya is where your opening knowledge ends and the “now what?” begins — so we map every opening to its middlegame plans, scan your real games for real weaknesses, and drill you until you play the plan against an engine that fights back at your level.

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Under 1000? Start here

Booster to 1000 — two complete repertoires, every move explained

The Italian as White, one solid setup as Black, the five traps that decide beginner games — and a drill that makes you play every line from memory.

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01

Openings → Plans

Queen's Gambit, Najdorf, London, KID… each card walks to the tabiya, explains the structure, then shows the actual middlegame plans for both sides — with a drill to prove you own them.

02

Weakness scan

Pull your chess.com or lichess games and let Stockfish — running locally in your tab — find where you actually lose: which phase, which openings, which kind of mistake.

03

Puzzles that fit

Engine-verified puzzles filtered to your rating and to the motifs of your openings — a Carlsbad player drills queenside attacks, not random smothered mates.

04

Your mistakes, replayed

After a scan, your own worst moments become a personal puzzle set — the exact positions where you went wrong, drilled until you find the move you missed.

Why is this free when others charge $10/month?

Because the expensive parts are already free: Stockfish is open source and runs in your browser, the puzzle database is public domain, and the coaching content is written once, not computed per user. Nothing you do here touches a paid server — so there's nothing to charge you for. Built by a 1300 who wanted this to exist.