The Path
Five worlds from 0 to 2000+. Short levels of hand-picked puzzles, 1–3 stars, XP, a daily streak and a boss at the end of every world.
See the line. Feel the snap.
Play. Get graded.
Drill the move you missed until you don't miss it.
PawnPulse is a chess training game. Climb a puzzle path world by world, replay the 60 games every strong player knows, spar with bots on the clock, and let the engine turn your blunders into tomorrow's drills.
No sign-up. Your progress is saved on this device.
Sparring partners
Play a bot →Coaches
All coaches →Openings & defences
All of Learn →Traps
All 64 traps →64 Stockfish-checked traps in three style packs. Spring each one, then learn to dodge it.
60 Classics
The Immortal Game, the Opera Game, the first computer win over a world champion and ten landmarks of modern chess. Replay with an eval bar or play the winner's moves and get scored.
Rated tactics
Thousands of real positions from the open Lichess database, served at your level, filtered by motif. Plus a daily puzzle.
Bots on the clock
Eight sparring partners with their own personalities, from "hangs everything" to full-strength engine. Bullet to rapid, or pass-and-play with a friend.
Game review
Every move gets a label — from Brilliant and Only move down to Blunder — plus accuracy for both sides, an estimated game rating and the key moments. Your own mistakes land in a drill queue. Import from Lichess or Chess.com.
Learn
Coach-inspired training paths by rating band, an opening repertoire trainer, a trap lab and board-vision speed drills.
A chess trainer that remembers what you missed
Most games between club players are decided by a short tactic — a fork you didn't see, a pin you walked into, a back rank you forgot to air out. PawnPulse closes the loop: learn the pattern on the Path, use it against a bot, get graded, and drill the miss until it sticks.
Want to read up first? Short guides: forks, pins, back-rank mates.
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Import your games
Public games only. Everything is graded on your device by Stockfish.
Enter a username to list the 20 most recent games.
Uses the public Lichess API and the Chess.com Published-Data API. PawnPulse is not affiliated with Lichess or Chess.com.
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Weakness report PRO
PawnPulse Pro
Pro launching soon — join the list
$6/month or $49/year at launch.
Everything on the free plan stays free. Pro adds the tools that turn practice into progress:
- Spaced-repetition review — every puzzle you miss comes back at growing intervals (1, 3, 7, 14, 30 days) until it sticks.
- Unlimited Game Reviews — every game gets move labels, accuracy for both sides, an estimated game rating and key moments, up to depth 24 (free: 1 full review a day, depth 12).
- Personal weakness report — success rate by tactical theme, your three weakest motifs, and one-tap drills for each.
- The whole Path — Ridge Line, High Pass and Summit (1200 → 2000+), and unlimited Path sessions every day (free: 5 a day).
- The full Classics library — all 60 historic games including the full Champion's Top 10, with guess-the-move scoring (free: 8 games — 3 from the Champion's shelf — plus a Classic of the day).
- Unlimited Danger sense — spot-the-threat drills without the daily cap (free: 10 a day; the blunder gate is free for everyone).
- All Woodpecker sets — Club 100, Tournament 200 and Expert 300, with cycle times and accuracy charted (free: Starter 50).
- Unlimited Meatgrinder — prophylaxis and convert-the-win drills against Stockfish (free: 5 a day; your misses queue is always free).
No payment is taken today. Join the list and we'll email you once when Pro opens, with an early-supporter price.
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