Less
admin.
More ♞coaching.
Chesscraft handles the scheduling, billing, homework, and progress notes — so the hours you spend with students are the hours you actually teach.
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Most coaches lose hours a week to everything that isn't chess.
Calendars, reschedules, invoices, parents on three apps.
Every week you stitch together Google Calendar, WhatsApp, Stripe, and a battered spreadsheet — and still miss a payment.
Hunting for the right puzzle in five tabs.
Your tactics library lives across Lichess studies, chess.com, PGN files, and screenshots in a phone gallery. Finding what fits a student takes longer than the lesson itself.
What did we cover last month — and did they ever practice it?
Progress lives in your head. Students forget. Parents ask. You wing it.
A coaching studio built around the way you already work.
Bring your studies, your students, and your schedule into one quiet room. Chesscraft does the paperwork; you bring the chess.
The lesson room, prepared in advance.
Live boards, opening trees, annotation, and shared notes — synced between you and your student. Resume a lesson exactly where you left it last Tuesday.
Every student, every line.
Rating curves, repertoires, weaknesses, and what they're working on — all on one page.
Assign in seconds.
Drag a puzzle set, a study, or a PGN onto a student. Get a ping the moment they finish it.
Invoices that pay themselves.
Packages, drop-ins, and family plans — auto-billed monthly, reconciled to your calendar.
Memory, with footnotes.
Every lesson auto-summarized into a private journal. Parents get a tidy weekly digest.
Four moves — and you're coaching, not chasing.
Set up your studio.
Import students from a spreadsheet or invite them by link. Bring your existing PGNs and Lichess studies; we tag and shelve them.
Schedule the week.
Drag lessons onto a calendar. Students self-book within your hours; reschedules and reminders happen on their own.
Teach the lesson.
Open the studio. The board, the prep, last week's notes, and homework results are all already on the table.
Close out.
One click sends the recap to the student, the digest to the parent, and the invoice to the queue.
I went from coaching nine students to twenty‑four — and got my Sundays back.
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Honest pricing. No surprise endgames.
Free until coaching is paying you back. Upgrade when your roster grows.
Pawn
Everything you need to coach your first three students.
- Up to 3 students
- Studio & shared boards
- Homework & puzzle sets
- Basic invoicing
Knight
For working coaches with a steady roster and a real schedule.
- Unlimited students
- Auto-billing & family plans
- Parent digests & lesson recaps
- Group lessons up to 8
- Lichess & chess.com sync
King
Multi-coach studios with shared rosters and reporting.
- Up to 10 coaches
- Shared curriculum library
- Club-level analytics
- Custom branding