Every Day ChessFree daily chess workout
See more. Blunder less. Watch your rating climb.
A daily chess workout and a daily race — both free, both at your level, no account. Fifteen minutes a day. The streak and the bragging rights compound.
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The Daily Challenge
Ten puzzles at your level — the same ten as everyone at your level today. Keep the streak. The ones you miss come back as Rematches.
Play the Challenge →Race today
The Race Track
Gamified learning: five squares, forks in the road, a steep path worth double. Send your link — friends race your run. Skill ladders teach whatever beat you.
Race the track →How it works
Pick your level.
Four levels, under-1000 to 1800-plus. No account.
Solve the Challenge.
Same set as everyone at your level today.
Come back tomorrow.
New Challenge, longer streak — and your misses, waiting.
The Race Track, up close
Drill one skill until you own it. Then race someone on it.
Skill ladders
Thirteen tactics, one at a time — forks, pins, back-rank mates. Three rungs each, and the last rung won't tell you what to look for. Clear it and the skill is yours.
Today's track
Five puzzles, two forks in the road: the safe way, or the steep way for double points. No clock — accuracy is the whole game.
Challenge a friend
Run the track, send the link. They race your score at their own level — a 900 and a 1400 on level ground. Losing writes your study plan.
The Program
The free Daily Challenge shows you where you lose. The Program stops you from losing there.
Every miss gets logged by theme — forks, back-rank mates, rook endings — and your exercises start bending toward the ones that keep beating you. Your misses become your curriculum.
Coming soon — join the waitlist
The full Rematch engine (every miss retained on a spaced schedule until you beat it), weak-spot targeting, skill trends, drills built from your own games, endgame and visualization tracks. Everything you can play today stays free.
Launch email only — nothing else, never shared. Early names get the best founding deal.
Frequently asked questions
Is it really free?
Yes. The Daily Challenge is free — the puzzles, your streak, your skill scores, and three Rematches a day on the ones you missed. No account, no card, no trial clock. A bigger Program is coming later — everything you can play today stays free.
Is it the same puzzles for everyone?
Everyone at your level gets the same Daily Challenge — no exceptions, that's what makes scores comparable. Your Rematches are the personal part, and they live in their own queue after the Challenge.
Is this a course?
No. Courses get watched, admired, and forgotten. This is reps: a 15-minute daily chess workout on positions at your level, weighted toward the mistakes you actually make.
What level is it for?
Adult improvers, roughly 400–1800. Pick from four levels — under 1000 (that includes brand-new and unrated players), 1000–1400, 1400–1800, 1800+. Starting out? The skill ladders begin at mate in one. Rating sat still for a year while you "do puzzles"? You're who we built this for.
Can I change my level?
Yes, whenever you like. If you haven't started today's Daily Challenge, the new level loads right away. If you have, the change kicks in tomorrow — today's set and your streak stay as they are.
What's a Rematch?
Any puzzle you miss twice joins your Rematch queue. After each day's Challenge it comes back — same board, no hints, one try a day. Beat it and it's cleared; miss and it waits for tomorrow. The free queue holds three; The Program, when it opens, keeps every miss on a spaced schedule.
What's in The Program?
The full Rematch engine (every miss retained on a spaced schedule until you beat it, targeted by weak theme), long-term skill trends, drills generated from your own Lichess and Chess.com games, and dedicated endgame and visualization tracks. Short version: it finds your weak spots — and gives you exercises that fix them. It isn’t live yet; the waitlist gets the first invite.
Work with us
If you're a GM, IM, or other titled player — or a seasoned coach — and you'd like to help shape training content for adult improvers, we'd love to hear from you.
Credits
Every workout on Every Day Chess is curated, validated, and arranged by us — each puzzle checked for correctness and graded into daily training plans. Puzzle sources include the Lichess open database (CC0) — thanks to Lichess for keeping chess data open. Every Day Chess is not affiliated with Lichess or Chess.com.