Puzzle Dashboard
Tracks every theme a player solves and surfaces their strong and weak tactics — so training targets exactly what needs work.
For chess coaches & academies
Run your entire coaching in one place.
Students, assignments, courses, attendance, fees and parent reports — plus a live classroom built right in. Free forever up to 30 students.
✓ Free forever — up to 30 students•No card required
Live coach dashboard
Your coach workspace
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🔥 Live Contests
Arena Race
Fast-paced puzzle race
Team Race
Race together with your team
Monthly Focus
Daily focus tasks all month
Arena Tournament
Full competitive tournament
3D Arena Tournament
Live chess in 3D — feel real!
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For your students
Everything your players get, included.
One login opens the full Chess Nexus experience — the tools that actually make players stronger.
★ 100% free to start✓ No ads, ever✓ For beginners to advanced
Nexus Guide
Scans a player's games to pinpoint recurring weaknesses and tells them what to practise next — a personal coach in the background.
Deep Analysis
Server-side Stockfish 18 reviews every game and returns clear, plain-language insights — blunders, turning points and better plans.
Studies
A library of endgame studies, master games and Nexus's own curated studies — structured lessons players can work through anytime.
3D Arena
An immersive 3D board that makes online play feel real — perfect for keeping younger players engaged and having fun.
Social Club
Clubs, friends and chat in a safe, moderated space — students compete, discuss games and belong to a community.
For coaches
Built for how you actually coach.
Everything you juggle across five apps and a spreadsheet — unified in one workspace built for chess coaches.
Roster, Batches & Fees
Unlimited batches, private notes, enrollment & payments
Built-in classroom
Teach live — attendance marks itself as students join
Assignments & Courses
7 types: templates, studies & master games
Parent Reports
One shareable progress link per student
✓ Free forever — up to 30 students•No card required
Free forever
Everything above is free forever for up to 30 students.
Not a 30-day trial. Not a card on file. If you coach 30 students or fewer, you can run your entire coaching on Chess Nexus without ever paying us — and that includes the live classroom.
- ✓Up to 30 students
- ✓Unlimited batches
- ✓All 7 assignment types
- ✓30 courses, 3 lessons each
- ✓Class schedule & attendance
- ✓Parent progress reports
- ✓Fee & payment tracking
- ✓Coach ↔ student chat
- ✓The live classroom
- ✓Premium tools for 90 days
Growing past 30 students? Paid plans raise the cap and unlock unlimited live classes with bigger rooms. Go over later and nothing is deleted — you simply move back to the free limits, with every student, course and record intact.
Included on every plan, free ones too
What's inside the live classroom.
Most online chess lessons are a video call in one window and a chess site in another. Here the video and the board are the same room — so there is no "can you see my screen?", and no second app to pay for.
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HD video & screen share
See the whole class. Noise suppression and video touch-up are built in.
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One shared board
Move a piece and it moves on every student's screen instantly.
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Give a student control
Hand over the board so they play the move in front of the class, then take it back.
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Draw on the board
Arrows and highlights sync to everyone — point at the plan instead of describing it.
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Load anything instantly
Your studies, courses, library, endgames, puzzles by theme and master games.
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Private engine
Stockfish for your eyes only. Students see just the board.
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One-click homework
Capture the position as you teach, send the whole set as one assignment.
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Attendance writes itself
Admitting a student records their attendance. No register to fill in after.
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Waiting room
Nobody wanders in halfway through an explanation.
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Raise hand
Their tile jumps to the front of your grid.
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Mic & camera control
Mute in one click. Turning it back on is always a request the child accepts.
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Play in class
The whole class plays at once with live clocks. Spotlight any board for everyone.
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Simul
Play every student at once, swapping between boards like a Lichess simul.
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Private races
Launch an Arena race for your class — only your own students can join.
Everything a coach gets
The whole coaching workspace.
The roster, the homework, the syllabus, the timetable, the attendance register, the fees and the report you send the parent — one login, one place.
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Students, batches & fees
- Students request to join, or you invite them
- Group them into batches by level, age or class
- See who is online right now, before class starts
- Private per-student notes only you can see
- Track enrollment, fees and payments in the same place
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Assignments — 7 types
- Puzzle topics, whole studies or a single chapter
- Timed Puzzle Rush and arena tournaments
- Play-vs-Stockfish positions from a visual board editor — never type a FEN
- Find-the-Blunder pulled from a student's own games
- Save your best as templates, or pull the admin blunder library
- Solve rate and accuracy recorded per student, automatically
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Course builder — 5 lesson types
- Your own studies, or a single chapter of one
- Built-in Nexus studies, so you don't author every lesson
- Video lessons in between the board work
- Master games, searchable by player or opening
- Endgame positions
- Enrol a whole batch — it appears in their My Syllabus, in order
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Schedule & attendance
- Weekly class slots per batch — days, time, duration
- You set it in your timezone; every student sees it in theirs
- Change it and students are notified automatically — nobody chases anyone
- Present, Absent and Catch-up, so records match what happened
- Export any period as CSV
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Parent progress reports
- One shareable link per student — the parent needs no account
- Rating over time, puzzles solved, accuracy
- What you assigned, what they finished, how they scored
- Attendance, including catch-up classes
- Recent games — including their Lichess and Chess.com games
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Private activities & chat
- Arena races and tournaments only your students can join
- They never appear publicly — no outside player joins your class
- New activities badge on the student's Activities tab
- Dedicated coach ↔ student chat, 1:1 and group
- Elite coaches get unlimited Team Race and Monthly Focus events
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For academies & institutions
More than one coach? Run the whole academy.
An academy sits on top of normal coach accounts. Invite your coaches by email or a join link, pay for all of them on one central bill, and oversee every coach, student and live class from a single dashboard — while still teaching your own students from the same login. No coach ever enters a card.
- Plans for 5, 10 or 25 coaches — up to 3,750 students
- Bulk discounts up to 20%, plus 10% for paying 3 months up front
- The head coach is still a coach, not locked into admin
- If a plan lapses, nobody is locked out and no data is lost
Up and running in minutes
How it works.
1Create your free account
Board your coach account in under a minute — no card required.
2Add students & batches
Invite players, group them, set your schedule and fees.
3Assign, track & report
Push homework, mark attendance, share parent reports.
Loved by players
What our players say.
★★★★★
The daily puzzles are my favourite part. I do a few every morning and I've slowly stopped hanging pieces.
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I love the tactics races with my friends after class. It doesn't even feel like practice.
★★★★★
The game analysis actually tells me what went wrong in plain words. It's like a coach is sitting with me.
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I used to get stuck in endgames. The endgame studies here fixed that for me.
★★★★★
Everything is in one place — puzzles, play, studies. I don't jump between apps anymore.
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Want to collaborate or become an Elite member?
Interested in coaching on Chess Nexus, hosting tournaments, or partnering with us? Reach out — we'd love to work with you and help you become an Elite member.