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DevelopChess

Build stronger chess skills through focused practice.

Last shipped
8 days ago
This year
56 releases
Shipping streak
3 months
Active since
Aug 2026
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Product summary

What it does

Train with structured chess puzzles, workouts, and progress insights.

Product timeline

Releases and roadmap updates

56 published updates
  1. New feature

    120 new trophies reward chess mastery and lasting recall

    DevelopChess now has 700 trophies, with new goals for tactical patterns, lesson recovery, delayed checks, perfect Arcade runs, Battle performance and long-term Notebook recall.

    Do these trophies give you useful goals for your chess practice?
  2. New feature

    Choose your chess workout: Daily Mix, Mistakes, or Themes

    Players can now retry missed puzzles or focus a timed workout on one chess theme, alongside the existing Daily Mix.

    Do the new workout choices help you practice what you need?
  3. New feature

    Manage your DevelopChess email and password

    Change your sign-in email and password from Profile & settings, with clearer signup and recovery screens.

    Is it easier to manage and recover your account?
  4. New feature

    Fox now helps you practise an idea and revisit it later

    Signed-in players can take a three-position recovery session, then return for a fresh check one or three days later. Progress is saved, and Elo stays unchanged.

    Did the short practice and later check help you remember the idea?
  5. New feature

    Fox now suggests your next useful practice step

    DevelopChess connects recent results to timely lessons, practice and reviews through compact personalized Fox coaching.

    Did Fox suggest a useful next step for your practice?
  6. New feature

    Two new multi-move mission goals: trap pieces and create passed pawns

    Practise trapping an enemy piece and creating a safe passed pawn in 1,000 new missions. Arcade now has seven goals with 500 positions each.

    Do the new trapping and passed-pawn missions help you practise these plans?
  7. New feature

    Automatic chess reminders across training and games

    DevelopChess now automatically selects timely reminders across Path, all four Arcade games, Battle and training, and alerts players when their game reviews are ready.

  8. New feature

    Training reminders for installed web apps

    Signed-in players can now connect their installed mobile web app for training reminders and DevelopChess announcements.

    Do web app reminders help you return to chess practice?
  9. New feature

    Replay recent tournament games from Chess News

    A new Games tab links directly to recent completed tournament games on Lichess.

  10. New feature

    World ratings added to Chess News

    See the top five players in Classical, Rapid and Blitz using FIDE rating data supplied through Lichess.