Graded on the move, not the button
Your child moves the piece on the board. The app marks it right or wrong from what they actually played, first try or after a hint, not from a button that asks how confident they felt.
Graded on the move, not the button
Your child plays the position on a real board. Ten minutes a night, and the schedule decides what comes back next.
Create a free accountNo card required. Nothing is shared with anyone.
Other people already want this
Independent developers keep building the same idea from scratch: turn a chess player's own game mistakes into flashcards. Players are asking for it in public: "I've already tried this app and I love it, I've been looking for something like this for a long time." The deck below is not that yet. It is 51 opening traps, fixed and ready today, built the same way for a different starting point.
The same mistake, over and over
Your child likes chess. They keep hanging the same piece, falling for the same trap, losing the same endgame, and playing more games does not fix it: a game gives one chance at one position, and the position that beat them last month might not come round again for weeks. The tools built for this have their own problems, and players say so in public. Anki's interface is the most common complaint among its own 24 million downloads. Chessable's own users say a missed move gets asked again right away instead of resting, so a hard move can take weeks to actually stick. Lichess has the games and the studies, and in its own most engaged users' words, there is "no way to quiz yourself" on any of it. None of that is a reason to give up on the idea. It is a reason the tool matters as much as the idea does.
What a week looks like
- Mon 10m
- Tue 10m
- Wed -
- Thu 10m
- Fri 10m
- Sat -
- Sun 6m
Wednesday is missed and nothing happens. There is no streak to lose.
Practise the positions, not the whole game
Wrong answers rest, then come back. They do not nag you five minutes later.
When your child misses a position, it goes to the back of the line and comes back once they are likely to have forgotten it again, not on the very next card.
Ten minutes, then it stops
A session is a fixed number of cards. When they are done the app says so and there is nothing further to do. No streak to protect at bedtime.
The number you will see everywhere else
The number most chess-improvement marketing leans on, that structured practice beats playing by 3.6x, is real. It just is not about the kind of practice a fixed puzzle deck gives you. The study that produced it found puzzle decks made no measurable difference over just playing chess. What worked was reviewing your own games. We read the whole study, not just the number, and it is why the box above says what it says instead of a bigger claim.
Southwick et al. 2026, 44,213 adult players, disaggregated by activity. We make no claim about what a child will gain from this deck, because we have no evidence for one.
What we do and do not do
We do not train AI on your child's data
Reading Eggs classes AI model training alongside advertising and data brokerage. We do none of the three.
Delete it whenever you want
Write to us at any time to see what we hold on your child, or to have it removed from our records. We do it, we do not ask why.
Everything we collect, in full
Your email and password. A name your child picks for their own screens, which can be anything and can be left blank. Which cards they answered and when. Which pages are visited, with no cookies and no stored IP address. That is the list.
And what we do not have
- No leaderboards
- No friends or messages
- No public profile
- No advertising
- No way for another user to find your child
We hold no certification and display no seal. Every line above is a claim about how the app is built, and you can hold us to each one.
Who is doing the practice?
For my child
You hold the account and your child does the practice. Ten minutes a session, and it ends by itself.
Create a free accountYou choose what the account holds, and you can have it removed at any time.
For myself
The same 168 cards across 51 opening traps, in three difficulty bands. Nobody has to be a child to practise them.
Go to the decksAn account first, then straight there.
Questions parents ask
Does my child need to be good at chess already?
They need to know how the pieces move. The easiest deck starts at beginner level and the app never shows a position far above where they are.
How long does a session take?
About ten minutes. It ends by itself.
Will it nag my child into using it?
No. There are no notifications, no streak that punishes a missed day, and no reward for coming back at a particular hour.
Does this use spaced repetition?
Yes. The app works out when your child is about to forget a position and shows it to them just before that, so the ones they find hard come round more often. You do not have to think about it and neither do they.
Who can see my child's account?
You. There is no public profile, no sharing, and no way for another user to find them.
What does it cost?
Nothing today. Accounts are free and there is no paid tier.
Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in the browser on whatever phone, tablet or laptop your family already has.