Chess with the Grandmasters

Chess with the Grandmasters

One app from first lesson to grandmaster-level play: learn from 150 years of great games, train with a coach who thinks like the masters, and play an engine at any strength.

Everything included

• Play: tournament clocks with increment, hints, live evaluation bar, principal variation, undo, resign, FEN/PGN import and export, four board themes, sounds, drag-and-drop or tap-to-move.
• Study games: 25 classics from 1851 to 2013 with step-by-step commentary, auto-play, engine check on each move, alternatives with evaluations and expected continuations.
• Train — Historical games (25): Explore with alternatives (branch anywhere, engine replies in the opponent’s style), Guess the grandmaster’s move (scored), Find the key move (puzzles from the games with hints), Play on from any position against the opponent’s profile with coaching.
• Train — Classic openings: 19 openings from the Italian and Ruy Lopez to the Najdorf, King’s Indian and London System, each with a commentary on every move of the main line, the strategic plans for both sides, the pawn structure, named variations and the traps to know; study with alternatives or drill the line as White or Black with the book move explained when you go wrong.
• Train — Endgame technique: 16 lessons (pawn endings and the opposition, outside passed pawn, breakthrough, Réti’s study, basic mates, Lucena, Philidor, Vancura, rook vs pawn, queen vs pawn, bishop vs knight, opposite-coloured bishops, connected pawns vs rook) with a model solution commented move by move, or play each one out against the engine.
• Train — Coaching: ten grandmaster repertoires, full coached games, principles for each phase, all-time progress per coach.
• Simulate GM vs GM: any two profiles play each other with commentary on every move.
• Game review: accuracy per side, move classification (best / good / inaccuracy / mistake / blunder), moments to study, estimated performance rating.
• Your weaknesses: every reviewed game feeds a report — the phase where you lose most, your recurring mistake types (hanging pieces, missed forks, slow development…), the openings that cost you points — with a prescription, a one-tap coaching session with the right grandmaster, and a puzzle set built from your own mistakes.
• Rating estimate: an Elo-style rating that updates after each rated game against the engine at a known strength.
• Learning paths: Beginner, Club and Advanced tracks that string the lessons, games, drills and puzzles into an ordered course with a progress bar; the onboarding questions pick your path, opponent and coach.
• Coach watching: in your games the coach warns you before a blunder becomes final and offers to take it back.
• Mate hunt and Find the plan: mate-in-1/2/3 positions generated from the library, and strategic multiple-choice positions from the classics with the master’s reasoning.
• Import your games: fetch your recent Lichess games (public API) and review them here; paste Chess.com PGN. “Masters” shows what master players chose from any position.
• Weekly challenge: twenty positions, the same for everyone each week; your weekly bests are kept. Share card: one tap turns a game review into an image for the share sheet.
• Offline: on the home-screen app everything except Stockfish works without a connection.
• Puzzle Rush: three minutes or three strikes against positions from the classic games, the opening traps and the endgame lessons, each with its explanation; personal bests kept.
• Repertoire review: spaced repetition for openings — every drilled line is scheduled for review at growing intervals so it stays learned.
• Club ladder: five human-like opponents from 800 to 2000 with their own strengths and weaknesses, for rated games on the way up.
• Coach voice: the coach’s commentary read aloud while you play (device voice, nothing sent anywhere).
• Daily challenge and streak: a new key position every day; your training streak and weekly record on the Play tab.
• Save & share: save any run of moves as a section with a note; share it as a link or via the iOS/macOS share sheet; export PGN to other apps.
• Engines: built-in engine with grandmaster style profiles; optional Stockfish 10 with UCI Elo levels (1350–2850) and a maximum setting far above Deep Blue’s 1997 strength.
• Graphics: four piece styles (Classic, Marble, Flat, Glyph), nine board themes including wood grain and tournament green, smooth piece animation, check pulse, captured-piece strip with material count, coordinates on the board or on the squares.
• Works everywhere: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows and Android browsers; installs to the Home Screen; no account needed.

Install on iPhone and iPad

• Open the app link in Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
• On a Mac: open in Safari, choose File → Add to Dock.
• Saved sections, rating and preferences are kept per device.

Open source and licences

• Stockfish 10 is optional and is never bundled with this app. When you choose it, the unmodified official build is loaded at runtime as a separate program (stockfish.js 10.0.2, served from this app’s own domain; corresponding source · licence text) and the app talks to it only through the standard UCI text protocol. Stockfish is © the Stockfish developers and licensed under the GNU GPL v3; source code: github.com/lichess-org/stockfish.js and stockfishchess.org. This app is published by Devine Arts and Games LLC, which serves the engine file as a separate program; it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Stockfish project.
• The built-in engine, the grandmaster profiles, the training modes and all commentary are original work of this app and remain proprietary.
• Historical games are public records. Player names are used factually; living players are not affiliated with this app.

Privacy

• Chess with the Grandmasters is published by Devine Arts and Games LLC. No account, no analytics, no data collection. Preferences, progress, rating and saved sections are stored only in this browser on this device.
• A share link contains only the moves, title and note you chose to share; opening one stores nothing until you press Save.
• Choosing Stockfish downloads the engine file from chesswiththegrandmasters.com. If you use “Import your games from Lichess” or the “Masters” button, the app sends the username or the current position to lichess.org’s public API and receives games or statistics; nothing else is sent. No other network requests are made.