Ethiopia's home for chess
A free chess platform built for Ethiopian players — play, learn, train, solve puzzles, analyze your games with Stockfish, and compete in tournaments and clubs. One platform, all free.
The platform
Play, learn, train, solve, analyze and compete — all part of one Chess.et ecosystem.
Five strength levels of Stockfish, real clocks, and instant analysis of every game.
55 free interactive lessons across four sections. No account needed to start.
Play through positions, branch into variations, and annotate with arrows and notes.
490,000+ puzzles by theme, with a rating and streak that track your progress.
Free, unlimited engine analysis — paste a PGN or sync your Chess.com/Lichess account.
Back rank, smothered, Arabian, Anastasia's and more — play the finishing moves.
Ethiopian tournaments and a national club directory — find your next event.
Analysis engine
Paste any PGN, or sync your Chess.com or Lichess username. The engine runs in your browser — no queue, no daily limit, no signup.
No daily limit and no queue — every game gets the full treatment, every time, at no cost.
Brilliant to blunder, with accuracy and average centipawn loss tracked across your whole history.
See exactly where you left theory — and what the main line was.
Community
Chess.et rankings are our own, not an official federation rating — every game you play updates yours. Join a tournament or find a club to play other Ethiopian players.
Every game you play updates your Chess.et rating. Play to start climbing.
Tournaments hosted on Chess.com and organized by Chess.et — register and see results.
The national club directory — find one near you, or register your own.
Education
55 free, interactive lessons across four sections — hearts, XP, and boss battles included. Playable as a guest, no account needed.
How every piece moves and captures, through castling and en passant.
Seeing what's safe, what's attacked, and building the habit of checking before you move.
Forks, pins, skewers and discovered attacks — the patterns that win material.
Full games and boss battles — putting the whole thinking process together.
Chess for the next generation
Chess.et helps Ethiopian families get their children started with ChessKid — the children's chess platform built by Chess.com — through a locally organized one-year program.
Local registration, parent communication in Amharic, and arranging the ChessKid membership. Not a second curriculum.
The children's chess platform — lessons, puzzles, games and curriculum, included with the membership.
One year of ChessKid access through the Chess.et Kids program.
No payment when you register — only after enough families join to launch.
Explore Kids Academy →Support
Unlimited analysis, puzzles, play, and rankings — no paywall, ever. If Chess.et helps your game, you can help keep it running.
The full platform, no account required to analyze.
An optional way to support development once payments are ready — not required to use Chess.et.
For clubs, schools, and businesses that want Ethiopian chess to grow.