Meet Checky
A chess.com for checkers
Chess players get bots at every level, daily puzzles, lessons, opening trainers and a review of every game. Most checkers sites give you a board and one computer to play. Checky gives checkers the rest.
Short answer
Yes: Checky. It does for checkers what chess.com does for chess, with 40 bots from beginner to master, over 3,700 puzzles from real games, 117 lessons, 115 named openings to learn and a review of every game you play. It’s free to start, in your browser.
Try one now
This is a real Checky puzzle, from a game between Anderson and Wyllie in Edinburgh in 1847. You’re Ink. Find the move that wins a piece.
There are 3,732 more like it in the app, picked to match your level. Do some puzzles.
What you’d expect, made for checkers
40 bots
Rated 250 to 2500, from Pip, who’s just learning, to Checky at master level. Each plays at its own level, in its own style.
Pick a bot3,700+ puzzles
All from real games, many more than a century old. Your puzzle rating starts at 800 and moves with every one you solve.
Solve one117 lessons
Four tracks: Foundations, Tactics, Strategy and Endgames. You move the pieces yourself in every lesson, from the rules to First Position.
Start learning115 named openings
From Old Faithful to the Kelso. Learn the lines move by move, then take a test to prove you know them.
See the openingsGame review
After a game, every move is graded. You get your accuracy, the moments that decided it, and a test on your own mistakes.
Play a gameRatings
A game rating and a puzzle rating, both starting at 800, so you can see yourself improve.
Get ratedChecky next to chess.com
Here’s how Checky lines up against chess.com’s tools, for the game it’s made for.
| What you want | Chess.com, for chess | Checky, for checkers |
|---|---|---|
| Bots at every level | Yes | 40 bots, 250 to 2500 |
| Puzzles | Yes | 3,700+, from real games |
| Lessons | Yes | 117, all hands-on |
| Openings to learn | Yes | 115 named openings |
| Review of your games | Yes | Every move graded |
| Ratings | Yes | Game and puzzle |
| Play people online | Yes | Not yet |
| Free to start | Yes | Yes |
Built for checkers, not copied from chess
Checkers isn’t a simpler chess. Because jumps are forced, the game is full of shots: you give up a man on purpose so that your opponent has to jump, and their jump sets up a bigger one for you. Checky’s puzzles and tactics lessons are built around them.
The engine behind the bots and the reviews is Checky’s own, written from scratch for checkers. It knows the exact result of every position with five pieces or fewer, about 156 million of them, so it never misplays a simple ending. And the endgame track teaches the classic endings strong players know by heart, like First Position.
Free, and what Premium adds
You can play straight away, without an account. A free account saves your progress across devices and opens much more: bots in every tier up to Advanced, the first lessons of every course, the main line of every opening, and a game review every day.
Checky Premium opens everything: all 40 bots, all 117 lessons, every opening line and unlimited game reviews. It’s 2.99 a month or 19.99 a year, in pounds, dollars or euros.
Questions people ask
Is there a chess.com for checkers?
Yes. Checky has what chess.com has for chess, made for checkers: bots at every level, puzzles, lessons, opening training, game review and ratings.
Is Checky free?
Yes, to start. You can play without an account, and a free account opens much more. Checky Premium, at 2.99 a month or 19.99 a year, opens every bot, lesson and opening line, and unlimited reviews.
Can I play other people on Checky?
Not yet. For now you play Checky’s 40 bots, which cover every level from your first game to master.
Which rules does Checky use?
American checkers, also called English draughts: an 8×8 board, compulsory jumps, and kings that move one square at a time. Here are the rules.
Does Checky work on my phone?
Yes. It runs in any browser, you can add it to your home screen, and once it has loaded it works offline.
Checky isn’t affiliated with Chess.com. We just think checkers players deserve the same tools.
