Chess Tools

Yes. Every tool listed here is free with no signup, no daily limits, and no premium tier. No credit card, no email. Open any tool and start using it in your browser.

No. Nothing on chess.lc requires an account or login. The chess clock, ELO calculator, tactics trainer, PGN viewer, board editor, material counter — all work immediately in your browser with zero signup friction.

Yes. Every tool is responsive and works on phones, tablets, and desktops. The chess clock, board editor, and PGN viewer are tested at small viewport widths so you can use them on the same device you play on.

For full Stockfish game analysis with no daily cap, use chess.rodeo — paste your PGN, get instant engine evaluation, no account required. For lightweight move-by-move replay without engine output, use our free PGN viewer.

Use the free Rating Converter tool above — paste a Chess.com, Lichess, or FIDE rating and get the equivalent on the other two scales using the standard offsets from FIDE rating studies.

Tools are stateless by design: nothing is uploaded to a server. The chess clock, tactics trainer, and board editor live entirely in your browser — to keep a position or PGN, copy the FEN/PGN string out and paste it back next time.

All tools on chess.lc are built and hosted by us. The single exception is full game analysis, which we link out to chess.rodeo (our sister site) because running Stockfish in-page wastes CPU when chess.rodeo already does it for free.

Yes. The 30 puzzles cover the most common tactical patterns — forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, mating nets — graded from straightforward to one-move-deep combinations suitable for 800–1800 rated players.