Review · Ranked #5 of 7
Aimchess review: turning your games into a study plan
Not a move-by-move analyzer but a diagnosis: which of six skills is costing you rating points, and what to practice this week.
Most helpers in our ranking of chess AI helpers work on one game or one position at a time. ChessHelper (chesshelper.ai), our first pick, shows suggestions at your level on the board; Chess.com and Lichess analyze single games. Aimchess steps back and looks at dozens of your games together, which makes it the best tool on the list for deciding what to study.
What Aimchess does
Aimchess describes itself as a training service that “helps chess players like you improve faster” by combining analytics with personalized lessons built from your games. You connect your online usernames, it pulls your recent games, and it produces a report on six skills, each compared with players of the same rating.
| Skill | What it measures, in plain terms |
|---|---|
| Tactics | How often you find and miss tactical shots |
| Endgame | How well you handle positions with few pieces left |
| Advantage capitalization | How reliably you convert winning positions |
| Resourcefulness | How well you fight back from worse positions |
| Time management | How you use the clock across a game |
| Opening performance | How your openings turn out in practice |
The report is the starting point. From it, Aimchess generates puzzles from positions where you went wrong, lessons from grandmasters and coaches, and a weekly study plan. Training modules listed on the site include Tactics, Endgame, Opening Improver, Blunder Preventer, Time Trainer and Checkmate Patterns.
Why a skill report helps
Single-game analysis tends to produce a long list of individual mistakes. It rarely tells you that the same kind of mistake keeps happening. A player who loses won positions every week, for example, does not need more opening study; they need practice converting advantages. A skill report built from 40 or more games makes that pattern visible.
The puzzles are the second strength. Positions taken from your own games are more memorable than random puzzles, because you remember the game. Aimchess cites a 12-week field experiment at the University of British Columbia in which, it says, personalized puzzles raised rating 31% faster than standard puzzles. That is the company's own claim about its own product, so treat it as a reason to try the tool rather than as a guarantee.
Pricing as listed in November 2026
Aimchess has a free Standard plan and a Premium plan billed monthly or yearly.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Free | One 40-game analysis report a month, weekly study plan, one daily training session, one daily warm-up, unlimited studies |
| Premium monthly | $7.99/month | Unlimited reports, analysis of your last 1,000 online games, 2x deeper analysis, unlimited daily training, statistics page, coach sharing |
| Premium annual | $57.99/year (about $4.85/month) | Same as monthly |
The free Standard plan is more useful than its one-report limit suggests. A monthly 40-game report is enough to see which skill is lagging, and the weekly plan, daily training session and warm-up keep you working on it between reports. Many players will find that a reasonable way to test whether the diagnosis matches their own sense of their games before paying. Premium matters most if you play many games a week and want the report to update as you improve, or if you want to analyze your last 1,000 games at once.
Premium also lets you track several accounts across Chess.com, Lichess and Chess24, which matters if you play on more than one site.
Official video
This short tip from Aimchess's own channel shows the personalized workouts, the part of the product most players use every day.
Video: “Aimchess Tip Of The Week - Personalized Workouts”, Aimchess.com (official channel). Watch on YouTube. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
Pros and cons
Compared with the other helpers in our ranking, Aimchess stands out for diagnosis and falls behind for move-level analysis.
Pros
- Finds patterns across many games, not one
- Puzzles built from your own mistakes
- Weekly plan removes the guesswork from study
- Coach sharing for players who work with a teacher
- Annual Premium is the cheapest paid plan on our list
Cons
- Free plan gives one report a month
- Not a tool for analyzing a single position
- Needs a steady stream of online games to be useful
- Rating-gain claims come from the company itself
How it fits with other helpers
Aimchess works best as the planning layer on top of a move-level tool. A typical week might look like this: Aimchess flags endgames as your weakest skill; you play a few practice endgames against bots and step through them with ChessHelper set a little above your rating; and you use Lichess or Chess.com Game Review for the one or two rated games that went wrong. Our choosing guide covers combinations like this.
If you play only a handful of online games a month, the report will have little to work with, and a single-game tool will serve you better.
Who should use it
Aimchess suits regular online players, from roughly 1000 to 2000, who feel stuck and do not know what to study. It also suits players who already have a coach, thanks to the sharing feature. Since everything happens on games that are already finished, it raises no fair-play questions.
Fair-play note. Chess.com, Lichess, FIDE and US Chess all forbid outside help during a game, and that includes engines, browser extensions and analysis tools. Use any helper on this page for study, reviewing finished games and practice against bots or in analysis mode, never in a game against another person, rated or unrated. What the rules say.
The best chess AI helper for answering “what should I work on?” It does not replace a move-by-move tool, but as a weekly planner on top of one it is hard to beat for the price.