ChessLab: Openings & Puzzles

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About this game

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.

What’s new

Bug fixes and enhancements