ChessLab: Openings & Puzzles

ChessLab (previously known as Chess Tips & Tricks) is a complete chess trainer, a chess game, and ai reel studio that turns your games into vertical videos. Study 10,000+ openings, solve 11,000+ tactics puzzles, play Stockfish across 7 skill levels, and share your best move as a video built for Reels, Shorts and TikTok. Works offline.

━━━━━━━━━━ NEW: AI REEL STUDIO ━━━━━━━━━━

Turn any game into a vertical video. Paste a PGN and the engine finds the moment worth watching, then builds the reel around it.

• AI picks the key move and writes the title • Cinematic effects — pieces slam, the board reacts, the camera follows the piece • Frame-by-frame camera control: your own zooms, shot lengths and cuts • Move call-outs (BRILLIANT, BLUNDER) in five text styles and three sizes • Any colour you like — presets or a full colour picker • Title and end cards you can restyle, resize or switch off • Lay your own music under it, and pick which part of the track to use • Move sounds mixed into the exported file • Build reels from your game, a famous game, or a puzzle

━━━━━━━━━━ PLAY CHESS ━━━━━━━━━━

• Play vs AI — 7 ELO-tuned levels: • Beginner Bot I (500) — Learn the basics • Beginner Bot II (900) • Intermediate (1300) • Advanced (1700) • Expert (2000) — Club strength • Master (2400) • Grand Master (2700) — Powered by Stockfish • Play vs Friends (Offline) — Pass-and-play on one device • Play Online — Challenge real players in live matches • Board Editor — Set up any position and play it out against the engine

━━━━━━━━━━ CHESS OPENINGS ━━━━━━━━━━

Study 10,000+ openings covering every ECO code:

• Ruy Lopez • Sicilian Defense • French Defense • Caro-Kann Defense • King's Indian Defense • Queen's Gambit • Italian Game • English Opening • Hundreds more

Every opening includes move-by-move PGN playback for easy study.

━━━━━━━━━━ GAMBITS ━━━━━━━━━━

Master aggressive opening traps and attacks:

• Halloween Gambit • Scotch Gambit • Englund Gambit • King's Gambit • Benko Gambit • And many more

━━━━━━━━━━ TACTICS & PUZZLES ━━━━━━━━━━

11,000+ puzzles across 57 themed sets, grouped so you can drill one pattern until it sticks:

• Checkmate Patterns — back rank, smothered, Anastasia's, Boden's, Arabian, 18 in all • Tactical Motifs — pins, deflection, discovered attack, clearance, 19 in all • Endgames — pawn, rook, bishop, knight and queen

Daily puzzle practice is one of the fastest ways to improve your rating.

━━━━━━━━━━ COURSE ━━━━━━━━━━

A structured path from zero to grandmaster — the fundamentals in order, so you never have to guess what to learn next.

━━━━━━━━━━ GAME REVIEW & ANALYSIS ━━━━━━━━━━

• Import any PGN • Stockfish analysis, entirely on your device • Ten move grades: Brilliant, Great, Best, Excellent, Good, Book, Inaccuracy, Mistake, Miss, Blunder • Sacrifices and only-moves recognised, opening theory marked as book • See what you should have played • Share games as PGN, or turn one straight into a reel

━━━━━━━━━━ GAME STATS & PERFORMANCE ━━━━━━━━━━

Connect your Chess.com or Lichess account for detailed insights:

• Rapid, Blitz, Bullet & Classical ratings • Win / Draw / Loss breakdown • Current & Peak ELO, with rating history graphs • Best & worst openings vs database averages • Common mistakes and phase-by-phase weaknesses • Toughest opponents and highest-rated victories

━━━━━━━━━━ GRANDMASTER GAME LIBRARY ━━━━━━━━━━

Replay legendary games from Carlsen, Kasparov, Fischer, Anand, Nakamura, Gukesh, Tal, Capablanca, Karpov, Kramnik, Alekhine, Morphy and Judit Polgar — including World Championship archives.

━━━━━━━━━━ FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE ━━━━━━━━━━

• 40 piece sets • 64 board themes • 6 sound themes • Dark Mode • Undo / Redo during practice

Beginners learning the rules, club players (800–1500), intermediate (1500–2000), advanced (2000+), and anyone who wants to play chess offline.

Everything except online play and imported stats works with no internet at all.