The Cody Blog
Ideas for clearer chess thinking
Practical notes on reviewing games, asking better questions, and turning each position into something you can use next time.
Chess Tactics for Beginners: 5 Patterns to Learn First
Learn five essential chess tactics for beginners: forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, and back-rank mates, with examples and practical defenses.
How to Get Better at Chess: A Simple Improvement Plan
Learn how to get better at chess with a practical plan for slower games, tactics, game review, openings, endgames, and progress you can track.
Meet Cody: An AI Chess Coach That Explains the Why
Meet Cody, an AI chess coach in your browser: play coached games, review finished games, solve puzzles, and hear the reasons behind moves by text or voice.
Chess Blunders: Why They Happen and How to Stop Repeating Them
Learn what makes a chess move a blunder, why the same mistakes return, and how to review each game so tactical and strategic errors stop repeating.
How an AI Chess Trainer Works, From the Engine Up
What an AI chess trainer actually is, how the engine and the language model work together underneath, and how to tell a real trainer from an eval bar.
How to Analyze Your Chess Games: A Repeatable System
A repeatable system for analyzing your own chess games: annotate before the engine, find the real critical moments, and turn mistakes into lessons.