Five things an academy needs, that usually live in five different apps: a way to teach online, a way to keep records, something for students to do between classes, a reason for them to keep coming back, and something to show parents.
Made for an individual coach with a few batches, a club or academy with several coaches and branches, and a school running chess as a subject. Every plan has every feature below; plans differ only in limits. It all runs in the browser — on a phone, tablet or laptop — with nothing to install.
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You move, every student sees it within a second. Step back and forward through the moves and the whole class follows.
Invite a child to play a move in front of the class, then take it back. Or name two students to play each other on the shared board.
Arrows, circles and square highlights in four colours, appearing on every screen.
Pair students and each pair gets a board. You watch every game at once and open any of them onto the big board to discuss.
Pause one board or all of them so the class listens instead of playing on.
The call is embedded next to the board. Students join muted with cameras off; you decide who speaks.
Paste a PGN or FEN, build a position by dragging pieces, or work from a photo of a book diagram.
Label every square while beginners learn the grid, then switch it off.
Save any position as an image for homework or a WhatsApp group.
Open the room early and set up while students drift in. Nothing moves for them until you press Start class.
Choose how long a class runs when you create it. The clock starts only when the class goes live.
New coaches press one button and the classroom explains itself, control by control.
Profiles with guardian details, branch, rating and full history. Coaches get their own logins with only the sections you allow.
Days, times, branch, capacity and a coach. Today's classes are waiting on the dashboard when you sign in.
Present, absent, late or excused in one tap each, with a monthly register and a percentage per student.
Fee demands are raised when a child joins a batch. Record payments, approve them, and see collections by month and method. Every student has a fee history.
Parents pay by UPI or card from the student's classroom, and the payment lands against the right fee by itself.
Bring in a whole roster of students or coaches from Excel or CSV, check what will happen, then commit.
One account, several centres, students and batches kept apart.
Your academy's name, logo and colours, and your own sign-in link. Students and parents see you, not us.
A puzzle trainer built on the free Lichess puzzle database. Each child has a puzzle rating and gets puzzles near it, by theme if they like — forks, pins, mate in two, endgames. Your own club puzzles sit alongside.
Six levels, from a beginner who hangs pieces to full strength. Runs in the browser, so a weak connection is fine.
Every class game is saved and replayable, with an engine that marks the inaccuracies, mistakes and blunders.
Link a lichess or Chess.com account and those games arrive here for the coach to look at.
Lessons in levels, with quizzes that mark themselves and count towards progress.
Everyone starts at 200 and it moves like a real rating — beat a stronger player and you gain more. Ranked by rating, games, puzzles or quiz points.
PDFs, worksheets, images and video links, shared by level and opened from the student's own classroom.
Notes a student keeps from class wait for them in one place, to read again before the next lesson.
Schedule a Swiss tournament once. The room opens on time, rounds pair by age group, results settle themselves and the standings are published. The WhatsApp announcement is written for you, in English or Bengali.
Rating milestones, win streaks, games played, puzzles solved, lessons finished, classes attended — colourful badges arrive on their own. Each club chooses which.
Coaches award a level badge when a child moves up, and any other badge for a good week or a tournament win.
Numbered per academy, issued when a course is finished or for a tournament or event, signed by up to four people. Each finished certificate has its own link anyone can open to view it.
Let players from outside your academy register through a public link, with an entry fee paid online if you set one — your own students can play free or pay too, as you choose.
Every tournament gets a public page with the live boards, clocks, results and standings, refreshing on its own — parents follow along without signing in.
Every class game, practice game and imported game can be analysed: an accuracy score for each player, every move labelled from best to blunder, the better move where there was one, and the opening named.
A friendly coach beside the board comments on each move and can read it aloud — an Indian-English voice where the device has one. Choose from several coaches, from calm to funny.
Coaches analyse a study game once and the report is stored; every student given that game sees it instantly. Add your own notes for your students alongside.
A student pastes a PGN or uploads a file from a tournament or another site, analyses it, and keeps it — private to them — with the analysis saved.
A student can send a game as a link that opens without signing in, or share the analysis summary on WhatsApp.
A fee reminder once a fee is past its grace period, and a class reminder the day before a batch meets — sent on their own. Each kind can be switched off for your academy.
Parents see a QR code and an "open UPI app" button for the exact amount, pay in any UPI app, and upload the screenshot. You approve it and the fee is settled.
Connect your academy's own Razorpay account and payments go straight to you, landing against the right fee by themselves.
A public page at chessclassrooms.com/your-club with your introduction, courses, a gallery of success stories, your fees and a WhatsApp button — the address to print on a leaflet.
Give out your club code: students sign up online and land in your academy, or add them yourself one by one or from a spreadsheet.
It runs in the browser on phones, tablets and laptops. Students can add it to the home screen and open it like an app.
Select any word and the assistant explains it; it can also give a spoken tour of the menu. A question it cannot answer goes to the academy on WhatsApp.
Twenty board styles and nine piece sets. Set your academy's default, or change the look for one class.
Put a worksheet PDF into a live class for every student to open, and keep notes from each class.
Every academy's records are kept separate: your staff see only your academy, and each student sees only their own games, fees and reports.
Ask and we send your students, attendance, fees and games as spreadsheets.
An unpaid account pauses after its grace period; nothing is lost. Your data is kept for 30 days after the pause, with email reminders before it is removed, and a full backup is taken first. Pay any time before then and everything reopens.
Your subscription is invoiced with GST, ready for your accounts.
Message us on WhatsApp between 9 am and 9 pm (IST). New academies get help setting up.
Every student has a page that answers the question parents actually ask. Attendance with a percentage, how the rating moved and against whom, courses finished, puzzles solved, every quiz. It prints to a PDF with your name on it.
