Free game review
A free game review for your chess games
Every move graded, an accuracy figure for both players, and your blunders turned into puzzles.
- FreeNo membership, nothing to unlock.
- No accountType a username and go.
- No limitReview as many games as you like.
- Any gamechess.com, Lichess or any PGN.
What you get
- Every move graded — brilliant, best, good, book, inaccuracy, mistake, blunder and the rest, with the engine's move shown beside yours.
- An accuracy figure for both players, and a graph of where the game turned.
- Your own blunders as puzzles. The positions you got wrong, asked again later, with the answer hidden.
- Patterns across many games. Review twenty at once and it will tell you what keeps happening — the openings, the phases, and the moves you play too fast.
- A board to try your own ideas on, with the engine judging your line against the one you played.
Where the difference actually is
chess.com's Game Review is good, and this page is not an argument that it is not. The differences worth knowing before you choose are these:
| Here | chess.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the engine runs | Your own processor, in the tab | Their servers |
| Cost | Nothing, and there is nothing to buy | Usually part of a membership |
| Account | None | Required |
| Your games | Never leave the browser | Already on their site |
| Search depth | Shallower — a laptop, not a data centre | Deeper |
| Games per day | As many as you have patience for | Whatever the plan allows |
| Works with | chess.com, lichess, any PGN | Games played there |
In short: a server-side review searches deeper; this one is free without qualification and works on games from anywhere. For finding the move that decided a game, the extra depth rarely matters.
How to review a chess.com game here
- 1Open the board and type your chess.com username — the same one you play under.
- 2Pick a game from the list, or press Review to run through the last five, ten or twenty together.
- 3Wait under a minute for most games. The board is usable while it works, and the grades appear as they land.
- 4Read the report, then practise the positions you got wrong.
The games come from chess.com's public data API — the same public games anyone can read — requested by your browser, one at a time. Nothing is scraped and nothing is stored anywhere but your own machine. lichess games work the same way, and if you only want to know which move lost one particular game, the blunder check is the short way round.
Why is it free?
Because it costs nothing to serve. The expensive part of analysis is the engine, and here the engine runs on your computer — so a hundred games cost this site exactly what zero games cost it. There is no tier above this one, nothing withheld, and nothing to upgrade to. You can put something in the tin if it has been useful, and it unlocks nothing.
Is there a free alternative to chess.com's Game Review?
Yes. Checkmate Central grades every move of a chess.com or lichess game with Stockfish, gives an accuracy figure for both players, marks the blunders, mistakes and inaccuracies, and shows what you should have played instead. There is no account, no membership and no daily limit, because the engine runs on your own computer rather than on a server somebody has to pay for.
How many games can I review for free?
As many as you like. The analysis happens in your browser using your own processor, so the hundredth game costs exactly as much to provide as the first — which is nothing. The only limit is your own patience: a full game takes roughly half a minute to a minute to analyse.
Do I need an account, and are my games uploaded?
No account, and nothing is uploaded. Your games are read from chess.com's or lichess's public API straight into your browser, analysed there, and stored there. No game, move or evaluation is ever sent to this site, and it has no database of games.
Is the analysis as good as chess.com's Game Review?
It is the same engine family — Stockfish — but a shallower search, because it runs on a laptop rather than in a data centre. For finding the moves that decided your game, the difference is very small: a blunder is obvious at any depth. For arguing about which of two good moves is fractionally better, a deeper search is worth more.
Does it work with lichess games too?
Yes. Type a lichess username and pick a game, or a chess.com username, or paste any PGN from any source. All three go through the same analysis.
Checkmate Central is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to chess.com or lichess. Their names are used here only to say whose games this tool can read and what it does differently. What is and is not collected is written out in full.