Chess Trainer

A chess training app template with a free mode and a paid plan. Players drill openings and get feedback on every move.

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The Chess Trainer home page: “Know the opening before your opponent does” beside a chessboard mid-Italian-Game
The Chess Trainer home page: “Know the opening before your opponent does” beside a chessboard mid-Italian-Game

Make this your business

Your first customer

Here's what a player sees when they start training.

  • Know the opening before your opponent does

    Open the site

    Two ways to practice openings.

  • Opening Recognition: a board and four opening names

    Name the opening

    A position from a real game and four choices.

  • Not this time, it was Slav Defence, with the main line

    Learn the answer

    Each answer explains the moves.

  • Specific Training Practice: the Italian Game, each move marked as a book move

    Train for real

    For $2 a month, they play a line and every move is checked against the book.

Ask Spark for changes

Your template comes with the Spark agent. Ask for changes, and Spark will update your project.

  • Add the Sicilian and the Caro-Kann.

  • Charge $5 a month and drop the lifetime price.

  • Add a daily puzzle everyone gets on the same day.

  • Make it for my chess club, with my club's name and colors.

  • Most players miss the same three moves in the Italian. Want me to add a drill just for those?

  • Should I email players their weakest opening each week?

What you don't have to pay for

These are usually separate subscriptions that someone has to connect. Spark includes them in one plan.

What you'd pay for separately

  • Website builder and hosting $39/mo
  • Member sign-in and subscription billing One paid plan $29/mo
  • Admin tools and a database One seat $24/mo
  • A freelance developer to connect it all 10 hours a month at $30 an hour $300/mo

Total $392/mo

With Spark Start for free

Each price is a typical small-business plan, billed monthly. Card fees apply either way.

Common questions

What does it cost?

Nothing to start, and you can publish on Spark's free plan at a spark.site address. Taking payments and using your own domain need a paid plan, from $25 a month. See pricing.

Do I get the original's customers or domain?

No, those stay with the original business, and you choose your own address.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. Ask for changes in plain words.

Who can I ask before starting?

Email support@spark.site and we'll answer.

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Start with Chess Trainer

Here's what happens when you start.

  1. It opens in your account Chess Trainer appears as a new project in Spark. New to Spark? You make an account first.
  2. Make it yours Ask Spark for your name, your look and your prices.
  3. Connect Stripe and publish Publish and your game goes live at its own address. Taking payments needs a paid plan.
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