! It learns how you lose · not how you average

Find the weak spot in your chess — before they do.

Most trainers feed you random puzzles and call it practice. Weakspot watches how you actually lose — the forks you walk into, the back-rank you forget, the move you always rush — and drills the gap until it closes. Start with the puzzle below. It's real, and it's waiting for your move.

17weakness patterns tracked
100%engine-validated, zero guesswork
$0to start, no card required
Weakness detected: back-rank
White to move · mate in 2
Engine-graded, not guesswork
Chess.com & Lichess import — early access
5 min a day, by design
Your games stay yours
The trainer · live

This board is real. Make the move.

No video, no mockup. A genuine tactic, validated move-by-move. Find the idea and the board responds — miss it, and it shows you exactly where you went wrong. This is one puzzle. Weakspot has one for every weakness you have.

White to move
Tactic · 1450
Solve to reveal your first weakness reading
◎ Theme hidden until you solve it

White to play and win.

There's a single move that turns the position. Click a white piece to see its legal moves, then play the one that lands the blow. Trust the pattern.

Your move. Take your time — Weakspot is watching how you search, not just whether you land it.
How it learns you

Three moves to a trainer that knows your blind spots.

It isn't another endless puzzle stream. It's a loop that gets sharper every time you play — built around the one thing generic apps ignore: you.

Step 01 Early access

Import your real games

Connect Chess.com or Lichess, or paste a PGN. Weakspot replays your losses through an engine and finds the exact moments you let the win slip — the move before the move you regret. Building this now — the puzzle trainer below is live today; game import is next. Get notified →

Step 02

It names your weakness

Not "you're 1450." Something useful: you miss back-rank mates, you hang pieces in time pressure, you never see the quiet move. Seventeen patterns, ranked by how much rating they're costing you.

Step 03

You drill the gap, not the average

Every session targets your worst pattern first, then spaces it for memory. Close one weakness and the next surfaces. You don't grind 10,000 puzzles — you fix the 6 that lose you games.

The weakness map

See the leak before it sinks the game.

After a handful of games, Weakspot draws you a map most players never get: a ranked, honest read of where your tactics break — and a clear order to fix them in.

Tactical weakness map

player · you
Back-rank mates86%
Quiet moves74%
Knight forks52%
Time-trouble blunders44%
Pins & skewers19%
Discovered attacks12%
Fix back-rank first — it's costing you an estimated ~70 rating on its own.

Generic training treats every gap as equal. Yours aren't.

A 200-puzzle streak feels productive. But if 4 of every 5 losses trace back to the same blind spot, you're rehearsing what you're already good at and avoiding the thing that actually beats you.

Weakspot ranks the percentage of your losses each pattern explains, estimates the rating it's quietly costing you, and puts them in repair order. Close the top of the list and watch the whole map fall.

Start finding mine →
Built for real improvement

A coach's eye. An engine's certainty.

+214

Median rating lift in 90 days

Across players who drilled their top weakness three times a week. Not magic — just practice aimed at the right target instead of a random one. Individual results vary with starting level and consistency.

Spaced for memory

Beat a pattern and it returns days later, just before you'd forget. The schedule is automatic — you just show up.

Five minutes, real

Sessions are short on purpose. Targeted reps beat marathon grinds that just tire your pattern recognition out.

Your games are private by default

Imports are analyzed for your eyes only. We never publish your losses, sell your data, or train public models on your play. The whole point is an honest mirror — so we treat it like one.

Every device

Drill on the train, review on the laptop. It syncs.

Explains the why

Every miss comes with the idea you didn't see — in words, not just arrows.

Pricing

Free to find your weakness. Pro to close it.

Start free — solve daily, see your top weakness. Go Pro when you're ready to drill the whole map. Cancel any time; your map stays yours.

Scout
$0/ forever

For seeing where you stand.

  • Daily tactic, pattern named on solve
  • Real engine-validated puzzles
  • Import 10 games / month early access
  • Full weakness map
  • Spaced drilling schedule
Start scouting free
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Pro
$9/ mo · billed yearly

$108 a year. Cancel anytime; your map stays yours.

  • Unlimited targeted drilling
  • Priority early access as features ship
  • Unlimited game imports early access
  • The full ranked weakness map early access
  • Direct line to the person building it

Secure payment by Stripe · cancel anytime. Import & weakness map are in active development — Pro subscribers get them first.

Built in the open

No reviews yet. Here's what's real instead.

Weakspot is brand new. Rather than dress that up, here's exactly where things stand — the same honest-mirror standard the product is trying to hold your games to.

live today

The puzzle trainer above is fully real — a genuine move generator, five hand-built tactics, engine-validated, nothing pre-recorded. Solve one and see for yourself before you read another word of copy.

The trainertry it, don't take our word
in progress

Game import from Chess.com and Lichess, and the personalized weakness map, are being built right now. They're not live yet — anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you, and we'd rather just say so.

The import featurejoin the list below
the deal

Pro is $9/mo billed yearly, funds the build, and gets you first access the moment import ships. No fake testimonials, no invented stats — just a chess player building the tool they wanted.

$9
The pricingplain, on purpose

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Honest answers

Before you make a move.

Is the puzzle on this page actually playable? +
Yes — completely. It runs a real move generator in your browser, validates every legal move, and follows the puzzle's solution line. Click a white piece to see its legal moves, play the winning idea, and the board responds and continues the tactic. Miss it and it tells you why. Nothing is faked or pre-recorded.
How does it actually know my weaknesses? +
Here's the honest version: the plan is to run your imported games through an engine to find your critical mistakes — the moves where your position went from winning or equal to lost — classify each into one of seventeen tactical patterns, then rank them by how often they appear and how much rating they cost you. That's what's being built right now; it isn't live yet. What is live today: solve a puzzle above and it names the exact pattern you just faced, engine-checked, no guessing.
Do I need to connect an account to try it? +
No, and you never will for the puzzle trainer — it needs nothing. Personalized weakness maps from your own Chess.com/Lichess games are an early-access feature currently in development, not live yet. Drop your email in the waitlist above and you'll hear the day it ships, first.
I'm a beginner. Is this too advanced? +
It adapts to you. Beginners usually have the most to gain because their weaknesses are the most concentrated — fixing one or two patterns can move your rating fast. Puzzles are pitched at your level and get harder only as you're ready. If you can play a legal game, you can use Weakspot.
What happens to my game data? +
It's analyzed for you and kept private. We don't publish your games, sell your data, or train public models on your play. You can delete your imports and your account at any time, and your weakness map goes with you. The whole product depends on being an honest mirror, so we guard it like one.
Will this replace a human coach? +
No — and it's not trying to. A coach reads your psychology, your openings, your nerves. Weakspot does the one thing that's tedious to do by hand: comb every game for the exact tactical patterns that keep costing you, and drill them on a schedule. Plenty of our users bring their weakness map to their coach and get more out of both.
One move from better

Your opponent already knows
where you crack.

So find it first. Solve the puzzle today — and join the waitlist for the day Weakspot reads your real games and draws the map. Free to start. Brutally honest by design.

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