How WayChess works

WayChess is a chess training platform that teaches players what to notice and how to think during real games. It does not replace classic tactics. It adds the missing piece: noticing what deserves attention, thinking in a useful order, and checking the move before you play it.

The simple model is: notice → think → check → play.

What should you think about before making a chess move?

A usable process is three questions, in order:

1. Threat assessment

What does my opponent threaten? What is wrong or vulnerable in my position: attacks on you, your loose pieces, ideas they can use.

2. Find the best move

What opportunities do I have? The same features, flipped: my attacks, their loose pieces, motifs I can use.

3. Blunder check

A blunder check in chess is the last look at a candidate move before you play it. You ask what the move changes: does it hang a piece, abandon a defender, walk into a fork, or open a line you did not intend?

The same pattern answers a different question at each stage. An undefended piece during threat assessment is yours. While looking for a move, it is theirs. In the blunder check, it is something the intended move might leave hanging.

The habits page maps each trained check to these stages.

Chess board awareness

Chess board awareness is the ability to notice relevant threats, opportunities and changes in a position before deciding what to calculate or play.

Puzzles often skip this. They start after you already know something is there. WayChess trains the noticing step, then places it inside the process above.

Why you miss tactics in games but solve them in puzzles

In a puzzle you already know there is a tactic. In a game nobody tells you that. First you have to notice that something deserves attention. Only then can you calculate. More in puzzles versus games.

How the training works

Learn what to notice

Each habit is a specific check — for example every attack on your pieces, or two enemy pieces a knight could fork. You learn what counts and what does not.

Practise it in isolation

You mark the relevant squares or pieces. After you submit, you get immediate feedback. The goal is not to solve a mate in three. The goal is to see that feature in a few seconds.

Repeat it across many positions

Daily sets mix the checks so they stay available during a real game, not only in a chapter you just studied.

Apply it while playing

You can play versus a bot with habit-training mode: the same checks you practised, used while you are actually moving pieces.

What you train

See the full list on Habits. Three checks have a short guest try: attacked pieces, undefended pieces, and knight fork.

Free vs paid

The free plan includes introductory positions for each habit, one daily set, and bot play. Paid plans unlock the large position pool and unlimited daily sets.