Chess Club
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Add players and choose how Coach Hoot teaches each of them.
Young learner: spoken coaching, Think with me, animal opponents, the basics. Improver: coaching without the child-friendly extras. Advanced: notation, engine evaluation and best lines, Stockfish levels up to maximum, harder puzzles.
- What does my opponent want?
- Checks, captures, threats
- Is my move safe?
Grown-up settings
Opponent ratings are rough estimates, not official ratings.
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Learn the pieces
Collect the stars, gobble the pieces, then try the checkmate puzzles.
The five opening rules
Few pieces left: play the position against Hoot and reach the goal. Every position is checked against the endgame tablebase.
The basics
My games
Every game is saved. Open one and Coach Hoot will show where the big mistakes were.
Hoot studies each one like your games here: big mistakes, better moves, and puzzles from your own mistakes in Learn.
Progress
Every game is studied by Coach Hoot and added here.
Built on open source: chess.js (BSD) for the rules, Stockfish.js (GPLv3) for the computer's brain, and the cburnett pieces from Lichess.