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Play chess on Eloist

Play the machine at three strengths — Casual, Club, and Strong — no account needed. Sign in first and every finished game flows straight into your analytics, like any other game you've played.

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The Sunday Review

Your week in chess, every Sunday morning: where your rating moved, the games that decided it, and the one thing to work on next week. Lands in your inbox.

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The Heist Ledger

Every piece you've hung and every piece you've been handed — your whole archive, both directions of the crime. Bullet players get the 1+0 versus 1+1 split.

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The Lab

The claims on your dashboard now carry confidence ranges. When a win rate is built on eleven games, Eloist says so — and the methodology is public.

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Accessibility, audited

The whole app meets WCAG 2.1 AA — every theme, every board, keyboard and screen reader included.

The Names of Chess

Why is it called the Fried Liver Attack? Who was Ruy López? An etymology of the openings, hung like an exhibition — every plate linked to its opening.

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The Overnight Study

You then, versus you now. Eloist studies your full history overnight and reports what actually changed — pace, openings, the habits you did or didn't shake.

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The Daily Eloist

A chess broadsheet, printed every morning: Game of the Day, Today in Chess History, the Daily Puzzle, and the wires. Subscribe and it lands in your inbox with the coffee.

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The game loop

Inside any reviewed game: see the best move, retry the position yourself, and trace the mistake back to the opening it came from.

App-shaped on your phone

Bottom tabs, a thumb-first dashboard, boards that behave in one hand. Add Eloist to your home screen and it feels native.

Real pieces

A proper vector piece set on every board — themable, crisp at any size, correct in both colors on every screen.

Career eras, sessions, and the openings database

Your history told in chapters, your sessions recapped with their fatigue curve, an interactive game viewer, and a database of openings to get lost in.

Pro

The AI coach moves into the dashboard, and Pro arrives: unlimited history, unlimited engine, a coach that tells you the truth.

What Pro unlocks

Launch day

Eloist opens its doors: connect your Chess.com account and find out what's actually costing you rating. Free.

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