About Kinglet Chess

The idea

Kinglet Chess is a friendly place for anyone who wants to learn and play chess without being thrown in against experts. You learn with lessons and puzzles, play a computer whose strength suits you, or play other people. Kinglet, our little king, sits beside you: he shows which pieces are in danger, rates your move before you confirm it, and walks you through the key moments after the game.

How the tutor helps you and what sets Kinglet apart from other chess sites: see How Kinglet works.

Learning chess with Kinglet will always be free. Any future paid extras will neither replace nor block this free access to learning.

Lessons, puzzles and games against the computer need no account. We use no ad networks or tracking across accounts. Games against other people require an account.

Sponsorship

Fixed sponsor spaces help fund Kinglet. Kinglet offers fixed sponsor spaces with a locally hosted logo and an ordinary link. No advertising scripts are embedded, and no account or game data is shared with sponsors. Opening a sponsor link takes you away from Kinglet. See Sponsorship and our privacy policy on operational statistics.

Who is behind it

Kinglet Chess is a project by Tim Tiefenbach - TeaFan Media from Wiesbaden, Germany. Ideas, bugs or praise? Write to us.

How the lessons are made

Lessons, puzzles and explanations are written with the help of AI; we select and edit them. Automated tests check every position, move and solution against the rules of chess, and puzzles and winning lines with the Stockfish engine as well. Spotted a mistake anyway? Let us know.

Credits

Kinglet Chess stands on the shoulders of great open-source projects:

• Stockfish · Chess engine behind the opponent, tutor and analysisGPL-3.0
• chess.js · Move rules in the browserBSD-2-Clause
• python-chess · Server move rules and local tutor traffic lightsGPL-3.0
• react-chessboard · The chessboardMIT
• Lichess chess-openings · Opening namesCC0
• Recharts · ChartsMIT
• Fraunces, Outfit, JetBrains Mono, Caveat · TypefacesSIL OFL 1.1

All licenses and source code offers: see Licenses & source code.

The Kinglet mascot was designed with generative AI, then selected and edited by us.