Chess RehabBREAK BAD HABITS.
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SEE THE POSITION. UNDERSTAND THE POSSIBILITIES.

Your next move, explored.

Bring in your Chess.com board. Find strong moves. Play out what follows.

YOUR STUDY WORKSPACE

Your analysis board

Moves will appear here as you play
Recorded game moves

Strongest Stockfish moves and their continuations.

White pawns move ↑ · Black pawns move ↓
BOARD CAPTURE

Live board capture

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Capture your screen or a video to find and track its board.

Capture and select a board to enable refresh.
Captured board previewLast manually captured board
02 / ENGINE EXPLORER

Engine explorer

Ready when you are

Scores favour White (+) or Black (−). Select a line to explore it.

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Good moves start with a closer look.

Review your position, then analyse to see the engine’s top choices and likely replies.

Evaluation

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Analyse the position to see its evaluation.

White’s perspective · engine estimate

Coaching tips

Based on this position

Analyse a position to see candidate ideas, then ask the assistant to explore them.

A LITTLE HELP WITH THE POSITION

Chess Rehab Assistant

LOCAL

Explore the ideas behind your next move.

No cloud account needed. Positions stay on this PC.

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A little space to think. Try choosing your move before revealing the engine’s ideas. Built for practice and position study.

CAPTURE / CROP

Find your board

Live capture keeps looking until your board appears. Show the game or start the video; the board is selected automatically. Drag to adjust the crop and pause the preview.

Drag to select your board
PREFERENCES

Settings

Changes save automatically and carry over to future app updates.

Appearance

Adjust reading size for your screen. The chessboard keeps fitting the available space.

Engine & position

Position details & FEN

Castling is enabled by default where the king and rook are on their home squares. Turn rights off if either moved earlier. A screenshot cannot reveal that history.

Can castle

Capture & recognition

New moves update analysis automatically
○ Theme not calibrated

Online databases

Hosted access uses your activated Chess Rehab service code, when the service is enabled. No Lichess account is needed. The shared allowance is 200 lookups per code each day, subject to service-wide limits; it resets at midnight UTC. Local study needs no connection.

Choose the database, ratings, time control and sample size on the homepage in Most winning move mode.

Optional personal Lichess token

A personal Lichess token connects both Lichess rated games and the Masters database. Engine mode and imported PGN games need no key.

  1. Open Lichess token setup ↗ and sign in.
  2. Create a token named Chess Engine Helper. Leave all permission scopes unchecked.
  3. Copy the token, paste it below, and click Connect & load moves.

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The token is saved using Windows encryption for your user account and reused automatically. The password field stays empty after saving. Create the token in your own account; this app does not generate API keys.

Personal training

Review your imported games and recorded app games, then practise your recurring mistakes and strongest moves.

Official updates & support

Development preview · full practice tools available. Sales are not open yet.

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Paid open-source: Single £19.99 for official updates and support on one Windows device; Multi £29.99 for three personal Windows devices. One-time purchase. Your GPL software rights do not require activation.

About Chess Rehab

Break bad habits. Play better chess. · Development preview 0.8.3

Your original Windows data folder is retained across the rebrand. This preview supports paid and complimentary sandbox service codes; updates use verified release signatures; live payment fulfilment is still being tested.

Saved games & user data

Off by default. You can still rewind and explore the current session. Connected account downloads are separate.

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Replaying moves on Chess.com preserves your recorded line. A different continuation creates a temporary variation with its earlier moves included. Use New game to start a separate game.

Settings, recorded moves, imported PGN statistics, calibration, repertoire and encrypted credentials stay in your Windows user folder when you replace the executable.

Backup & support

Contact support@chess.rehab for support. Attach a support report only if requested; it excludes games and keys.

Export your games, reviews, settings and repertoire. Backups contain personal game data; keep them private. Keys, browser data, screenshots and logs are excluded. Pause imports and analysis before exporting for a common cutoff. Restoration instructions are inside the archive.

Support reports contain app and system versions and feature availability, without games, keys or logs.

WELCOME TO CHESS REHAB

Make room for better chess.

Watch a game, explore a position, or learn from your own games. A little setup, then you are ready.

01 / YOUR GAMES

Connect Chess.com

Use your public username. Download completed games for review, without sharing your password.

Optional. You can connect later in Improve.

02 / YOUR BOARD

Choose it. Watch it.

Open a video or board, then choose Capture. We find the board and detect the orientation and turn where possible.

  • Rewind videos and explore moves in this session.
  • Yellow move highlights are supported.
  • Queued premoves wait until they become real moves.

First use or another piece style? Pause at the starting position and calibrate once from the capture window.

Personal Lichess connection · optional

Hosted opening databases use your activated Chess Rehab service code when available, so no Lichess login is needed. This optional personal connection uses your own allowance; it does not connect your game archive. You can import your completed Lichess games as PGN in Improve. Create a token with no additional permissions in your Lichess settings.

Saved using Windows encryption. Never included in game or settings backups.

CHESS REHAB · RESPONSIBLE USE

Better habits. Fair play.

For learning, computer practice, post-game review and spectating. You are responsible for following platform and event rules. Do not use or share engine or database assistance where it is prohibited, whether a game is rated or unrated. Misuse may result in account sanctions.

Friendly training requires agreement and permission under the host’s rules. This notice does not override those rules.

Free software. Official support.

Chess Rehab is GPL-3.0-or-later. You may run, modify and redistribute it under that licence. Official update and support plans are separate services. Matching source accompanies each official release.