For chess clubs, academies and coaches

Your chess academy, organized.
From first inquiry to student progress.

Families find your programs and send registration or waitlist requests. When you confirm a place, they get your class's joining instructions. Students practise on NGChess, and you assign puzzles and see who has started or solved them.

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Free play with move feedback and hints, no account needed. Running a club or academy? Request a guided pilot

  • Students join with a class code, no student email
  • No chat with strangers
  • NGChess never takes your families' payments
AI coach · move quality White to play
✦ Brilliant — Nf7+ forks the king and rook, guarded by the queen

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  • Academies & clubs

    Programs, registrations, classes and a public page in one place.

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  • Teachers

    Your classes, assignments and progress.

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  • Players

    Play the computer now — no account needed.

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  • Students

    Join your class with the code your teacher gave you.

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How it fits together

One connected workflow for your academy

Many academies piece this together from a website form, email threads and a free chess site. NGChess keeps the steps connected.

  1. Families find your programs

    A standard club page shows programs, schedule and events with honest availability: request a place, join a waitlist, or registration closed.

  2. Requests land in your dashboard

    Registration and waitlist requests stay separate. Nothing is booked or paid until you confirm it with the family.

  3. Enroll and send joining instructions

    One action marks the request enrolled and emails the family how to join the NGChess class linked to that program.

  4. Students join with a class code

    No student email or password. Between sessions they play, solve puzzles and use the tactics trainer.

  5. Assign practice, review progress

    Assign puzzles with due dates and see, per student, what is not started, attempted or solved.

When NGChess may not be what you need

If you teach one group and already use Lichess classes and studies, those are free and may be enough. NGChess is for academies that also want a public program page, registration and waitlist requests, and the handoff from enrollment to class in one place.

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For teachers and coaches

Teach with NGChess

Run classrooms with class codes, assign puzzles, and follow each student's progress. Students join with an alias — no email needed.

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For clubs, academies, and coaches

More than a club website.

Publish programs and events, collect registration or waitlist requests, enroll accepted students into class, assign practice and follow their progress.

Families send requests from your page; you confirm places and arrange payment directly. Keep the chess and tournament tools that already work for you — an event can link straight to the site that runs it.

See the club website demo Create your club page
  • Launch through guided setup
  • Keep programs and schedules current
  • Turn visitors into registration requests
  • Connect registrations to NGChess classes
  • Mobile-friendly and search-ready
  • Link rated events to the organizer's site
  • Use it as your website or alongside your existing site

Works with your current tools

You don't have to move everything at once

NGChess runs the part between your public page and your classes. The rest can stay where it is.

See if NGChess fits your academy

Explore the complete academy workflow, or try NGChess with one real class through a guided pilot.

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How it teaches

Feedback on every move, while you play

The same three steps work for your first game or your hundredth.

  1. See how good your move was

    Each move is rated from Brilliant to Blunder, with a live win-probability bar that shows its impact.

  2. Get a hint when you're stuck

    Hints suggest a stronger move, so you can compare it with what you were planning.

  3. Understand the idea

    The coach explains why a move works in plain language and names the patterns on your board — openings, defenses and checkmates.

No account needed. Pick your level and start a game.

Hints, move ratings and game review use the open-source Stockfish engine.

Also included

Start without an account; a free account adds multiplayer, history and the Chess Lab.