Identity, not a report card

You don't have a hundred weaknesses. You have one — and it repeats.

We read your real games, name the leak that drains your rating, and a legendary master trains it shut with you. Free, no account needed.

  • Tal
  • Garry K.
  • Anderssen
  • Alekhine
  • Capablanca
  • Bobby F.
  • Rubinstein
  • Magn
  • Morphy
  • Petrosian
  • Karp
  • Lasker
  • Nimzowitsch
  • Steinitz
The uncomfortable truth

Your rating plateau is not a mystery. It is one leak — and it can be closed.

The loose piece, the missed dagger, the won ending that slips away: the same mistake, game after game, hiding in plain sight. We read the games you actually played, name that leak, estimate your ELO and tell you which strengths to keep. Then the real work begins: a legendary master trains it shut with you, teaching from his own games.

  • Nothing invented

    Every claim points to a move you actually played — game, date and opponent you can check. No AI making things up about your chess.

  • Same games, same verdict

    A chess engine analyses everything right here in your browser. Run it twice and the diagnosis is identical — check us.

  • Real genius, never faked

    Masters speak through their real games and human-written lessons — never a chatbot in their name.

See it before you try it

This is what your verdict looks like.

A moment, cited

A real amateur game (Lichess, 2026). White grabbed the b5 pawn with the knight — and lost the piece to it. The position asked for d5, breaking open the centre. Red is what was played; blue is what the master teaches.

And the master speaks

Nimzowitsch

Nimzowitsch · The Prophylactic Mind

“First restrain, then blockade, and only then destroy. Patience is a weapon.”

Your verdict names the leak, prices it in ELO points, and seats you with the master whose style is its antidote — his voice on every move you review.

Meet yours — free
The journey

Train under your master. Watch the leak shrink. Graduate.

  1. 01

    Diagnosis

    Paste a username. We read your real games and name the one leak costing you the most — with the moves to prove it.

  2. 02

    Discipleship

    Choose your mentor — any historical master reviews your games in their own voice. Train on positions drawn from your own blunders.

  3. 03

    Graduation

    Watch the leak shrink, game over game. When it closes, your next master is waiting — a new lineage, a new fight.

Pricing

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Before you ask

The short version.

Is this just another engine that lists my blunders?

No. Stockfish finds the moments — that part is plumbing. The product is the master who cures the pattern behind them, and the discipline of training under one style until the leak closes.

Do you use AI to analyse my games?

Never. Diagnosis is a deterministic chess engine plus curated, human-written content. Same games in, same diagnosis out — no model inventing wisdom about your chess.

Are these real masters?

The games are real and public. Long-deceased masters appear under their own names; living greats are evoked under a recognisable alias, never impersonated. No master ever speaks as a chatbot.

Do I need an account?

Not for your first diagnosis. Paste a Lichess or Chess.com username and meet your master in under a minute.

Which sites do you support?

Lichess and Chess.com — the games you already play.

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