Chess Improvement Lab
Understand your game.Choose how you train.See what carries.
Rookify connects your games, your practice and your next games. Study and practice with it today.
Understand My Chess
How you really play, backed by the games behind every claim. When there isn't enough evidence yet, we say so.
Guide My Path
One thing to work on at a time, why it matters for the player you want to be, and a choice of how to work on it.
Measure My Progress
Does the idea hold up in a new position, and show up in your next games? Kept separate from sessions finished and rating swings.
The Lab
How a session fits together
This is the route the connected Lab is being built to follow. Every step stays on your current focus and adds to one record.
01
Track Your Mistakes
Missed a threat in a game? Save that position and note what you were thinking. Your note sits next to what your games show, so you can compare the two.
02
Practice Your Focus
Work on your focus, the one thing worth improving first. Work on puzzles built around it, or play curated positions against a sparring bot. Finishing counts as practice, not as having learned it.
03
Test Your Recall
Answer a quick question about one of your own positions. Then try the idea in positions you haven't seen, and again later to check it stuck. Solutions you've already seen don't count.
04
Integrate Into Your Game
You get one thing to look for in your next games, and we check whether you used it. Then you keep going, switch to something new, or just keep it fresh, and we explain why. Too few games? We wait. That isn't failing.
Available now
What you can use today
These tools work now for study and practice. Linking them to one focus, and to a check on what carries over, comes next.
Sync Your Games
Import your Chess.com or Lichess games and keep them up to date.
Game Analysis
Engine-checked review of your games. Find the critical moments and turn useful positions into practice.
Explore Mode
Set up any position, try ideas, and see engine lines on an interactive board.
Practice Mode
Play a position out against engine replies and get feedback on your moves.
Daily Puzzle Review
Come back to puzzles on a spaced schedule so the ideas stick.
Personalized Puzzle Mode
Puzzle sets built from positions in your own games.
Opening Hub
Pick a repertoire, drill the lines, and revisit the ones that need work.
Velo Training
Build your own puzzle sets and work through them against tighter time targets, inspired by the Woodpecker Method.
Development Roadmap
What we are building next
Next is the connected Lab: one focus backed by evidence, a choice of how to train, and an honest record of what carries over. We share stages, not dates, and each one ships when it's ready to back its claims.
Games, study, and practice
Import and review your games, study positions, and practice with the tools above. Each works on its own; none is tied to a single focus yet.
The connected Lab
A Signature preview from a public handle or PGN, one focus that fits your goal, two different ways to practice it, Reflections on saved positions, a short Position Check, a later review, and something to watch for in your next games.
Opening work on the route
A dedicated opening trainer, with repertoire and move-order practice linked to your focus.
A richer picture of your chess
How you like to play, how your games tend to unfold, and where in a game you're strongest or weakest. Always with the evidence behind it, never a fixed label.
GM inspiration
Borrow the parts of a champion's play that serve your goal, like conversion, prophylaxis or rook endings. It's a route toward those skills, not a match percentage.
Community
Build the future of chess improvement with us
Rookify is built in public with players, coaches and curious improvers. Join in, follow the build log and help shape what comes next.
Join our Discord
Talk with other chess improvers and follow product updates.
Read the Rookify Blog
Product updates, training ideas, and notes on building the Chess Improvement Lab.
Substack archive
Earlier build notes and essays from the Rookify Substack.
Support our Research
Tell us what would make Rookify more useful to you.
Start with your games.
Import your Chess.com or Lichess games, study the positions, and practice with what's ready now. Rookify works after the game and between games, never during rated play.