For schools
School chess without the hassle
Your own fully shielded chess environment for your class. Children sign in with a card, you keep the overview.
A chess classroom that just works on Monday morning
A tablet or laptop for every child, a card with a name and a PIN, and you keeping an eye on things. That is all it takes.
No email addresses needed
You create the accounts. Each child gets a printable login card with a name and PIN. Signing in happens at manychess.org/class.
Fully shielded
Children only see their own club, the puzzles and the chess computer. No chatting with strangers, no visibility on the site, only preset messages in games.
Made for the classroom
The class overview shows all boards live. Pair two children with one click, or run a complete tournament within one lesson.
Competition and leaderboard
An ongoing class competition, a class leaderboard of its own, and at the end of the school year you archive the group with one click.
Why online, and not just boards on the table?
A fair question. The answer is not that a screen beats wood.
The lesson starts right away
No handing out boxes, no missing bishops, no ten minutes of tidying up at the end. Everyone is playing within half a minute.
The rules are always right
A move that is not allowed simply cannot be made. You do not have to know whether that castling was legal, and there is never an argument about it. You can run this even if you do not play chess yourself.
Nobody sits waiting
Odd number, someone off sick, or someone who finishes early? That child plays the computer or solves a puzzle instead. Nobody is left out.
Evenly matched opponents
The site knows each child's level and pairs them with someone they can just about handle. The same child does not win every week and it stays exciting for everyone.
You see every board at once
The class overview puts all the games side by side, clocks included. You spot who is stuck at a glance, without walking around.
It does not stop at the bell
The club competition carries on during break and at home. A quarter of an hour a week is not enough to improve; this way it keeps going.
What about your boards?
They stay right where they are. The finest chess is still two children facing each other over a real board. What disappears here is the fuss around it: who plays whom, whose turn it is, what the score was again. Most schools use the site alongside their boards, not instead of them.
A chess trainer that teaches the lesson
Children in your club get the full learning path from coach Caïssa: fifteen levels covering tactics, openings, middlegame and endgame. The trainer explains on the board, has the student play the moves and says why a wrong move does not work.
You do not need to play chess yourself. The trainer explains and checks; you see who is progressing in your club management.
Finishing a level earns a certificate in the student's own name. Print the whole class at once from your management screen.
Children never talk to the AI. Everything they see is written in advance and verified by a chess engine.
Level 1 is live: twenty lessons covering exactly what a beginning chess class needs. The higher levels follow.
The login card
You print them and hand them out. Every card carries the club code, the child's name and their PIN. Lost one? Two clicks and there is a new one.
Try first, pay later
30 days free, no payment details needed. After that 99 euro per school year for the whole club, payable by invoice your school administration can simply process.