Coaches first
Rule 01Every screen is designed by watching a real coach use it. If it doesn't make their Tuesday evening calmer, it doesn't ship.
About ChessPlay
Built with chess coaches, for chess coaches.
We're a tiny team obsessed with one thing, making chess academies feel calm to run, beautiful to use, and impossible to leave.
Our manifesto
What we believe
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We believe chess deserves better software.
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We believe coaches should coach, not chase invoices.
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We believe parents deserve to see real progress, not promises.
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And we believe a 200-student academy should run with the calm of a 20-student one.
By the numbers
A quiet revolution, one academy at a time
Small team, big surface area. Here's what our community looks like today.
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Students learning every week
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Academies on ChessPlay
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Countries on the board
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Puzzles solved this year
What we value
The four house rules
Pinned to the wall in our (mostly virtual) office. Every roadmap decision passes through these.
Replace, don't add
Rule 02We're allergic to feature bloat. Each new capability has to retire at least one tool from your stack, not pile on top of it.
Slow craft, fast software
Rule 03We obsess over the small stuff: a smoother animation, a clearer empty state, a friendlier error. Then we ship it weekly.
Humans on the other end
Rule 04Real humans answer support, not bots. Average first-response time: 60 seconds, including weekends.
If you run a chess academy and you're tired of juggling eight tools, we built ChessPlay for you.
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