Frequently Asked Questions

Chessfeed is an interactive chess study platform. It turns games, openings, puzzles, endgames, master games, and board positions into study sessions where you can try moves, compare branches, follow a learning Feed, save studies, practice critical positions, and ask AI coaches for explanations.

Traditional engines are excellent at showing evaluations and best moves. Chessfeed helps you learn from those moments by letting you try alternatives, compare choices, save your thinking, and get coach-style explanations tied to the position.

chessfeed connects with Chess.com and Lichess for automatic game imports, and also accepts PGN file uploads. Any game you can export to PGN — from any platform or tournament — can be analyzed in chessfeed. You can also use Study to explore positions and branches beyond a single imported game.

Not at all. chessfeed is built for players of all levels, from beginners learning how pieces move to advanced club players preparing for tournaments. The AI coaches adapt their explanations to your current level.

Study is Chessfeed’s interactive board workspace. Start with your own game, an opening, a puzzle, an endgame, a master game, or any board position, then explore moves, compare branches, follow the Feed, practice, save the lesson, and ask AI coaches for explanations.

Opening Lens helps you understand the opening phase as ideas and plans, not just names and move orders. It shows the opening context, plans for both sides, meaningful candidate moves, and ways to continue the position into Study.

The Insight Panel is the guided learning layer inside Study. It helps you notice plans, threats, mistakes, candidate moves, and next steps while you study a position, so you do not have to rely only on engine numbers or ask a coach question every time.

The Feed is the learning timeline inside Study. While the Insight Panel helps you understand the current position, the Feed keeps explanations, comparisons, practice prompts, notes, coach responses, and saved moments attached to the positions you studied.

Saved studies keep your exploration journey. They can hold branches, notes, practice positions, candidate lines, coach explanations, and learning context from games, openings, puzzles, endgames, master games, or any position. For coaches and academies, saved studies can also work like interactive study workbooks.

You can share saved studies with coaches, friends, students, or training partners so they can review the same positions, branches, and notes. It is a better way to share your thinking than sending only a screenshot or PGN.

Yes! During the current early-access period, Study and other Chessfeed features are free to use.

We are actively working on our payment integration. We will notify all users directly in the app as soon as billing goes live. Until then, you can use the current early-access features for free.

We plan individual tiers tied to usage and academy-focused setups priced case by case. Details will be shared ahead of billing; during early access, core Study and related features remain free.

We will accept all major credit and debit cards, UPI, and popular digital wallets through our secure payment processor. Enterprise customers will also be able to pay via invoice.

All your games, analyses, AI coach conversations, and saved study history are expected to carry over when paid plans launch. We will share any important billing or plan details before billing goes live.

Take a photo of your handwritten scoresheet from a tournament or casual game, and our AI converts it to PGN format automatically. It recognizes standard chess notation across most handwriting styles. You can review and correct the moves before running analysis.

Yes. You can switch coaches anytime, even mid-conversation. Different coach personalities emphasize different tones and teaching styles—some more strategic, others more direct and tactical—and you can experiment to find what fits your study best.

chessfeed provides move-by-move engine-backed analysis, move classification, evaluation graphs, opening identification with ECO codes, AI-generated narrative insights, and Study so you can investigate alternatives from key positions.

Teaching Mode provides deeper coach-style explanations for key moments in a game or study position. Instead of quick summaries, you get positional reasoning, long-term plans, and concrete ideas to review.

chessfeed can turn important positions from your games and explorations into interactive practice, so you revisit the situations that matter to your learning.

Yes. Chessfeed currently supports English and Hindi coach personalities, with more languages planned based on community demand.

Yes. You can analyze any game — including your opponents' — to study their patterns, prepare for upcoming matches, or simply learn from how strong players handle certain positions.

Chessfeed’s AI coach is tied to the position, branch, game, or study session you are exploring. Instead of giving generic chess advice, it can explain why a move matters, what changed in a branch, what plan you missed, and how to think about the position next.

The AI can help identify recurring patterns across your games, such as tactical blindness, endgame errors, or positional misjudgements. It can then surface explanations and practice ideas around the positions where those problems show up.

chessfeed is designed to complement human coaching, not replace it. It gives you on-demand, deeply personalized analysis available any time of day. A human coach still brings motivation, live board work, and relationship — many serious players use both.

You can reach us by emailing ops@chessfeed.ai or joining our WhatsApp community where the team actively answers questions. We also monitor in-app feedback and address reported issues quickly.

Email us at ops@chessfeed.ai with a description of the issue and any relevant screenshots. You can also flag issues directly in the app or raise them in the WhatsApp community group.

We take game data and account privacy seriously. Your games, analyses, and conversations are private by default, and we do not share them publicly without your permission.

chessfeed works in any modern browser on desktop, tablet, and mobile. We recommend Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge for the best experience. A dedicated mobile app is in our roadmap.