Checkmate Mind
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Checkmate Mind
Bring your classes, your coaches, your students and their parents. Every game is reviewed, every student's record is kept, and a parent can tell whether it is working. Players without an academy are welcome too.
Who it is for
Checkmate Mind is not one academy. It is the place an academy runs: the classes, the coaching, the practice between lessons, and the record of every student, with the people around that student each seeing what they need.
Each class is a circle with its coach, its students, and their parents. Enrolment, schedules, meeting links, placement on the eight-level ladder, and a record per student that stays with the academy's history. Your own name and colours on it, your fees collected for you, and one admin page for the whole academy.
Open a student's record and see what was taught, what stuck, and what keeps coming back. Every game they played since the last lesson, already reviewed, with the student's own notes on what they were thinking.
Puzzles from their own games, a sparring bot that plays into their weak spots on purpose, a coach's recap after every set, and whole games from a photographed scoresheet.
Plain words about what their child is working on and one question to ask, no chess knowledge needed, and a short email every week. Never a pile of engine numbers.
Running an academy? You bring the coaching; the platform brings the classes, the practice between lessons, the record of every student, the parent page, your branding, your billing, and an admin page for the whole academy. Start your academy: your desk opens straight away, and your families can join as soon as we have approved it.
On your own? The same platform, without the academy. Take the placement, practise, play the bots, and bring a coach or a parent in whenever you like. Nothing is lost if an academy comes later.
How this differs
Most of what a chess student does happens when nobody is watching. The games, the puzzles, the losses nobody explained. Here is what we do with all of that, next to how it usually works.
How it works
An academy usually runs on a lesson, a coach, and occasional homework. On Checkmate Mind the academy's classes, coaches, students and parents share one loop, so nothing a student does is wasted and every lesson starts with the coach already knowing what happened since the last one.
A live class or 1:1 lesson with a coach who knows exactly where you are.
Online games, club games, tournaments, even a handwritten scoresheet.
Every game reviewed for tactics, structure, and the decisions behind the moves.
Your mistakes become your puzzles. Then a training game quietly checks the fix holds.
Progress feeds the next lesson plan, for you, your coach, and your parents.
Sparring
A puzzle tells you there is something to find before you even start looking. A real game gives no warning. So when practice says a weakness is fixed, the last step is a game that quietly tests it.
Trainers that serve puzzles at your weaknesses exist, and they are good. We have not found another one whose bot plays a whole game and concedes, unannounced, to make the weakness appear. A strong coach does this over the board. That is who we learned it from. How sparring works, for parents →
Why it works
The AI is not here to replace a coach. It is here to give the coach better information and give the student better practice between lessons.
A beginner is told to check what can be captured for free. A 1900 is shown the overloaded queen. Same engine, different teaching.
The tactic you missed on Tuesday is the position you drill on Thursday. From your game, not a database.
The system remembers. Recurring weaknesses surface on their own, whether that is knight forks, rook endgames, or moving too fast when winning.
No evaluations, no notation. Plain language about what your child learned, what they are working on, and whether it is improving.
Circles
A circle is where the work lives. For an academy, a class is a circle: its coach, its students, and their parents looking in. For a player on their own, a private circle, where a parent or a coach can join later. Friends and classmates share group circles to play and compete together.
One record
A chess education usually lives in pieces. A coach's notebook, two chess websites, a drawer of scoresheets, a parent's memory of what the last coach said. Change coaches and most of it is gone. Here, the coach and the AI write to the same student record, and the record moves with the student.
The software
Coaches teach. The software does the parts that are tedious, repetitive, or need to happen between lessons. A few of these are heavy enough to be Pro.
Tournament games live on paper, in a child's handwriting, half of it wrong. Take a photo and we read it, then work out what the moves must have been by testing them against the position. A misspelt move that is illegal has only one legal neighbour, and that is the one you played.
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6
Every move it corrected is shown as "you wrote B94, read as Ba4", so nothing is quietly changed behind your back. Validated on real tournament scoresheets.
Every move checked, mistakes classified, and a write-up that reads your own notes on what you were thinking at the time.
Upload class notes or a past paper and get questions from that exact material, at three levels of difficulty.
A one-page revision sheet built from what you uploaded, not from a generic syllabus.
A tutor that already knows your circles, your games, and the things you keep getting wrong.
Who it's for
You should always know what to do next.
You should not need to play chess to follow along.
You should walk into a lesson already prepared.
The academy
Coaching is chess-only and taught by Iniya and a small number of vetted coaches. Every program runs on the same loop. The difference is where you start.
Classes start once Checkmate Mind LLC is approved. Put in a request now and we come back to you first.
For students learning how the game works and building good habits from the start.
For students who know how to play and now need to know why their games go wrong.
For competitive players preparing for rated events and chasing a rating goal.
A note from Iniya
I have played and studied chess for eight years. I built this because I kept losing the same way and nobody could tell me. My games were on paper, my lessons were in someone else's notebook, and the two never met. So I made the thing I wanted. A place where the games, the mistakes and the coaching all live together, and nothing gets forgotten between lessons.
I did not build it alone. Coaches told me what they need to see to teach well, and parents told me what they need to see to know it is working. Built by a student, for students, coaches and parents.
Get started
Create an account, find your level, and put in a request. We will come back to you when places open.
Choose what you want to do.
Patterns from your games become the next thing to learn, practise, and test.
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No account yet? Send your family link. Signing up through it with the parent role lands them beside you, seeing the same children.
Or pick an opponent. Every game counts toward your rating.
Fixed engine strengths.
One space for the whole event. Each round gets a slot; add the game when it is played and the review runs on its own.
Pick where it goes and we will open the upload for you. A PGN, a photo of a scoresheet, or a game pasted in as text all work.