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Good evening, challenger.

Survive the Chaos.
Dominate the Board.

Grandline Chess turns chess mastery into a daily habit you actually want to keep. Adaptive puzzle drills, focus-training rounds, and an AI coach that studies your blunders so you don't repeat them.

  • 2M+ active players
  • 50M+ puzzles solved
  • 4.8/5 average rating

Rating

+64 this week

1,842

Puzzles Solved

Rush streak: 12
80% 1,204/1,500

Focus Score

Top 9%

4.6/5

Sustained concentration across your last 20 sessions, measured by move-timing consistency.

"The board doesn't care how you feel. It only responds to what you calculate. Train the calculation, and the confidence follows on its own."

Viktor Solenko, fictional Grandmaster & Grandline Chess Head of Coaching

Daily Challenge

Mate in 3 — White to move

Resets in --:--:--
+150 XP & Chaos Chest on solve
Solve Today's Puzzle

Why the daily challenge works

  • Tuned to your rating. Difficulty adapts automatically so every puzzle sits right at the edge of your ability.
  • One puzzle, real commitment. A single high-quality position beats fifty mindless ones — that's the whole design philosophy.
  • Streaks that matter. Miss a day and your streak freezes for 24 hours before resetting — enough forgiveness to keep you honest, not enough to let you coast.
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Real players, real boards

Training doesn't stop when you close the laptop.

Grandline Chess syncs your puzzles, ratings, and focus stats across every device — so the position you left mid-thought on your phone is exactly where you pick it back up, whether that's at your desk, in the park, or between rounds at a tournament.

  • Cross-device sync. Start a puzzle rush on mobile, finish the review on desktop.
  • Offline puzzle packs. Download a week of daily challenges before you travel.
  • Built for the table, not just the screen. Log over-the-board games and get the same blunder analysis.
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Inside the app

Six modes. One relentless climb.

Every feature in Grandline Chess is built around a single loop: play, get precise feedback, fix the leak, come back stronger.

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Focus Training

Timed sessions that strip away distraction and score your concentration curve, not just your win rate. Learn exactly when your attention breaks down mid-game.

Puzzle Rush

Beat the clock across escalating tactical puzzles. Rush mode rewards pattern recognition speed — the same instinct that wins won games in real time trouble.

Interactive Lessons

Bite-sized courses from openings to endgame technique, narrated step-by-step with an AI coach that pauses and quizzes you the moment attention drifts.

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Ranked Battles

Climb a seasonal ladder of nine divisions, from Pawn to Chaos Sovereign. Every match is fully rated, anti-cheat scanned, and archived for review.

Stats & Analytics

Every game broken down into accuracy, blunder rate, opening repertoire gaps, and time-management patterns — visualized so the fix is obvious, not just the flaw.

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Community

Join clan-style crews, run weekly puzzle relays, and get your games reviewed by titled players in the Grandline Chess Discord and in-app clubs.

Pricing

Pick your pace

Start free. Upgrade the moment the daily grind stops being enough.

Free

$0/month

For getting your bearings on the board.

  • 3 daily challenge puzzles
  • Basic stats dashboard
  • 5 ranked battles per day
  • Community clubs access
  • Ads between sessions
Start Free

Grandmaster

$19.99/month

For serious climbers who want a coach on call.

  • Everything in Warrior
  • Live titled-player game reviews (2/month)
  • Custom opening repertoire builder
  • Advanced focus-training analytics
  • Early access to new modes
Go Grandmaster

Today's mindset

Every blunder is just data you haven't reviewed yet.

Grandline Chess was built in 2021 by a small team of coaches and engineers in Lisbon who were tired of chess apps that made training feel like a chore. No fluff, no filler puzzles — just a system that gets you 200 rating points closer to who you're trying to become.

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HQ
Rua do Alecrim 82, Lisbon, Portugal
Founded
2021