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Chess Notate
Free chess notation trainer. Drills free, sign in for more.
ChessNotate teaches you to read chess notation through interactive drills — Square ID, Notation Write, PGN Walkthrough, and more. All 5 drills are completely free. Sign in to unlock the famous games collection and your personal progress report.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Daniel, the maker of ChessNotate.
I built this because I kept hitting the same wall: I'd pick up a chess book - Logical Chess, My System, anything annotated, and I couldn't read the moves fast enough to follow the game. The notation was slowing me down so much that the book stopped being useful.
I couldn't find a tool that just drilled notation. So I built one.
What ChessNotate does:
Square ID: tap the named square on a real chess board as fast as possible. Trains coordinate memory.
Notation Write: a move is shown on the board, you write the SAN for it. Trains notation output.
PGN Walkthrough: step through famous games move by move, reading notation in real context.
Read & Play: read a move in notation, then play it on the board. Bridges the gap.
Square Colour: light or dark? Trains visualisation.
All five drills use SM-2 spaced repetition (same algorithm as Anki), so your weak spots get more practice automatically.
The model:
All five drills are completely free — no paywall, no time limit. Creating a free account (Google Sign-In) unlocks the famous games collection and your personal progress report showing your weakest squares over time.
It's a PWA, so it works offline and installs on iOS/Android without the App Store.
Would love any feedback from chess players and educators here. What drills are you missing? What would make this actually useful for your study routine?
Happy to answer anything 🙏
About Chess Notate on Product Hunt
“Free chess notation trainer. Drills free, sign in for more.”
Chess Notate was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. ChessNotate teaches you to read chess notation through interactive drills — Square ID, Notation Write, PGN Walkthrough, and more. All 5 drills are completely free. Sign in to unlock the famous games collection and your personal progress report.
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Who hunted Chess Notate?
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