Positional training from your openings

Read a position at a glance.

Drill positional judgement on positions from your own openings until the right read takes seconds, not minutes.

Strong players see the weak pawn, the unsafe king and the knight’s best square in seconds; most of us need a minute or two at the board. EvalChess drills those judgements on positions from your own openings and pawn structures until the right read takes 5–10 seconds.

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Knights · Sicilian Najdorf · Level 1

Tap the best square for White’s knight on c3.

Correct · Good · 3.1 s

d5 can never be hit by a black pawn, and e4 supports it.

Positional drills

One quiet position, one question: whose king is weaker, which pawn is weak, where the knight belongs. Answer on instinct. You are graded on being right and on being quick, and the board shows why.

Your openings, your structures

Choose the variations you play, or a pawn structure such as the IQP or the Carlsbad. Every position comes from a real game, most of them between masters and Lichess Elite players.

Learned for good

Spaced repetition brings each position back just before you would forget it, so the positions from your repertoire become ones you know cold. Your level in each topic is measured on positions you have never seen, right and fast.

Tactics alongside, calculation next

Puzzles from the same openings train next to the drills. When you want slow, deliberate work, calculation tasks ask for the whole line before the answer appears.

How a drill works

A position, one question. Twelve topics, from king safety and weak pawns to knights, pawn breaks and development.
Right and fast. Fast and right is Easy or Good, slow and right is Hard, wrong is Again. Speed counts because the aim is instant recognition.
The board explains. Marks on the squares that decide it and a one-line rule. After a miss, a “Now compare” position with the same structure and a different answer.

Where the positions come from

Quiet middlegame positions from real games, each checked twice by Stockfish, labelled by our own evaluation and reviewed before a question type goes live. Tactics come from the Lichess puzzle database, tagged by opening.

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Repertoire pathsIn development

Enter the positions your repertoire aims for, as moves, a FEN or a PGN. EvalChess builds an ordered path for each pawn structure they lead to: recognise it, pieces and plans, tactics, then calculation. It ends with the full scan: one position, every element, about ten seconds.