Your chess academy, run from one board

ChessCore runs the whole chess academy from one place: batches and recurring schedules, attendance and make-up credits, fee collection through Razorpay and Stripe, a chess profile per student with engine game analysis, and an AI copilot that drafts game reviews, progress reports, and parent messages from your real records. Students train inside it too: puzzles, games against AI and classmates, homework, and live classes on a shared board. Parents get their own portal for reports, receipts, and absences.

Yes. Students get a training portal with puzzles from a catalog of 6,095,563 rated puzzles, served on a spaced-repetition schedule with streaks and an academy leaderboard. They can play human-like AI opponents at five levels, challenge classmates, do homework, and join live classes where the coach drives a shared board. Tournaments run with Swiss, round-robin, or knockout pairings.

The copilot drafts the paperwork: game reviews, monthly progress reports, fee reminders, and class recaps, all built from your attendance, rating, and payment records. It never evaluates a chess position (Stockfish does that), never invents a number (they come from the database), and never sends a draft to a family itself, except class recaps if your academy turns on auto-publish. Class reminders, fee reminders and monthly reports are fixed templates that send on the schedule you switch on.

No. Parents get an email invite, then sign in to their portal in the browser with their own login, and the updates they care about, class recaps, fee links, and approved reports, arrive on WhatsApp. Families who want an app get the academy-branded one, which installs to a phone home screen straight from the browser.

That is the setup we built the importer for. Bring your student list in from a spreadsheet, recreate your batches with recurring schedules, and connect each student's Lichess or Chess.com account. How long setup takes depends on your records; we import the roster with you, and most of the work is checking it. WhatsApp stays, it just becomes organized: reminders, payment links, and recaps go out through it instead of manual typing.

Every academy's data is isolated from every other academy's. Contact details, ID numbers and dates are masked, and student names replaced or shortened, before copilot text reaches an AI model; guardian consent for minors is recorded and renewable, and rating history is append-only so a student's record can never be silently rewritten.

There is a free plan for a small roster with core scheduling and the same daily copilot allowance as every plan, with Stockfish analysis included and no credit card required. Paid plans start at $69 per month billed annually, and you can change or cancel your plan from the dashboard at any time.

Yes. The copilot can look things up and make changes across students, batches, attendance, fees, leads, payroll and reports, using the same permissions as the person asking. By default it asks before every change, and you can pre-approve routine actions. Refunds, marking invoices paid, payroll and copilot messages to guardians need a second approver.

Yes. ChessCore keeps an append-only audit trail of actions by staff and by the copilot, newest first. Owners can filter it and export it to CSV.

Everyone who works on a student's record: the owner and admins, the counsellor who handles enquiries, the front desk that runs batches and attendance, whoever does the accounts, the coaches, and the parents and students themselves. Each role sees only its own part, and the owner decides what every role can see and do.

Yes. The analytics workspace shows revenue, retention, attendance, coach utilisation, rating improvement and the enquiry funnel from the records your team already keeps, and it exports to CSV. Every Monday at 08:00 owners and admins also get the week in one summary.