Everything you need to make your next move

Cody is a web-based AI chess coach that follows your board and explains chess in plain language. You can play with Cody beside you, ask questions about any position, and review games you already played.

An engine tells you the strongest move and an evaluation number. Cody uses engine analysis under the hood, then turns it into a conversation about plans, threats, and the ideas behind the moves, so the lesson carries over to your next game.

Videos teach positions from someone else's games. Cody coaches you on your own games and positions and answers the exact question you have, at the moment you have it.

Anyone from complete beginner to strong club player. You tell Cody your level and it adjusts its vocabulary and depth, from explaining how the pieces move to discussing concrete calculation with experienced players.

Yes. At beginner levels Cody explains rules and basic chess vocabulary whenever they come up, and never assumes knowledge you don't have yet.

A strong chess engine evaluates the positions, and an AI coach translates that analysis into plans and ideas you can actually use. The board in front of you is always the shared point of reference.

No. Cody runs in your web browser on desktop, tablet, and phone. Open the site and your coach is ready — there is nothing to install.

No. Cody is a training tool for studying, practicing, and reviewing finished games. Using any outside assistance during rated online games breaks platform rules, so keep Cody for before and after those games.

Play through a position and ask questions by text or voice. Cody can explain plans, suggest moves, and use board arrows and highlights to make the idea easier to see.

Choose Start learning and follow the short setup. You can try Cody from the live board, then sign in to save chats, connect chess accounts, and review imported games.

Yes. You choose your level when you set up your coach, and Cody matches its explanations to it — first-steps vocabulary for new players, concrete lines and nuance for experienced ones.

Yes. You can play against Cody on the live board while it coaches you along the way, and pause at any moment to ask what is going on or what a better plan looks like.

Yes. You can study opening ideas, practice puzzles, or explore a position on the main board while asking Cody for an explanation or a useful next step.

The opening book lets you browse opening families and explore their repertoire maps move by move. You can ask Cody about any line while you explore it, so names turn into ideas you understand.

Cody gives you tactics to solve with your coach beside the board. If you get stuck, you can ask for a nudge in the right direction instead of being shown the full answer.

Yes. Navigate to any position on the board and ask about it by text or voice. Cody follows the position in front of you, so the conversation always matches what you see.

Start a voice session and talk with Cody like you would with a coach at the table. Cody sees the board, hears your question, and answers out loud while pointing at squares with arrows and highlights.

No. You can learn entirely through text coaching, which stays free. Live voice is there when you want a more natural conversation beside the board.

A device with a microphone and a recent browser. Allow microphone access when your browser asks, and you're ready to talk.

Yes. Cody has several voices with different characters, so you can pick the one you enjoy listening to during longer sessions.

Club uses an efficient realtime voice built for regular training. Master uses the flagship realtime voice — the most natural one available — and falls back to the efficient voice when needed.

The voice session ends, but nothing else stops: text coaching keeps working for free. You can buy a credit pack or wait for your monthly allowance to refresh.

Yes. Voice coaching runs in your phone's browser once you grant microphone permission, so you can train away from your desk.

Import a completed game and Cody creates a move-by-move review. You can step through the game, see stronger alternatives, and continue the conversation with your coach from the board.

You can paste a public Chess.com or Lichess game link, or paste a complete PGN. You need to be signed in so the imported game and its review can be saved to your account.

Yes. Connect a public Chess.com or Lichess profile from your Cody profile. Cody imports the available game history, and you can use Sync to check for new games.

Yes. Paste the PGN of any standard game, including over-the-board games you recorded yourself, and Cody reviews it like any other import.

Yes. A review is the start of the conversation, not the end of it. Step to any moment and ask why a move failed, what the better plan was, or how to handle the same structure next time.

Not yet. Cody focuses on standard chess for coaching, game reviews, puzzles, and the opening book.

Only you. Imported games and their reviews are saved to your account and are only available when you are signed in.

Voice credits power live spoken conversations with Cody. Text coaching stays free, so you can keep asking questions by text when you are saving voice time or have used your current balance.

Free, Club, and Master, billed monthly. Every plan includes text coaching; the paid plans mainly add more voice time and Cody's most natural voices. Current prices are on the pricing page.

Free includes 50 voice credits each month, Club includes 400, and Master includes 1,200.

Credits are counted per minute of live voice. The efficient voice on Free and Club currently uses 2 credits per minute, and the flagship Master voice uses 5 credits per minute.

Yes. Signed-in members can buy credit packs of 200, 600, or 1,500 credits whenever they need more room, and the credits are added on top of the current balance without touching the subscription.

No. Credits from a purchased pack stay on your balance until you use them.

Payments run through Stripe's secure checkout. From the billing portal in your profile you can update your payment method, view invoices, and manage the subscription.

Open your Cody profile to see your plan, credit balance, and subscription controls. If you schedule a cancellation, your membership remains active until the end of the current billing period.

Sign in and describe what happened on the feedback page, including the approximate date and the plan or pack involved, and the team will take a look.

No. You can try Cody on the live board straight away. Signing in saves your chats, reviews, and settings, and unlocks connected accounts and game imports.

With your Google account, or with an email address and password. Creating a Cody account is free.

No. You can play, study, and solve puzzles entirely inside Cody. Connecting an account is only needed if you want your online games imported automatically.

No. Cody only reads the public profile and public games of the username you connect. You never enter your password for those platforms into Cody.

Yes. You can connect a profile from each platform, and Cody keeps the imported game history from both available for search and review.

Cody saves the public profile details, ratings, stats, and available game history needed to find and review your games. Connected-account and imported-game records are scoped to your signed-in Cody account.

Disconnecting removes the connection and the game history synced through it. Games that you imported separately with a direct game link remain available in Cody.

Yes. Your chats, imported games, and reviews belong to your account and are not visible to other users.

No. The data Cody stores is used to run your coaching experience, not sold.

Disconnecting a chess account removes the game history synced through it at any time. For full account deletion, send a request through the feedback page and the team will handle it.

Recent versions of Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Firefox on desktop and mobile. Voice coaching needs a browser with microphone support, which all of these have.

Check that your browser has microphone permission for Cody and that no other app is holding the microphone. Then reload the page and start the voice session again.

Reload the page first — when you are signed in, your games and chats are saved. If it keeps happening, report it through the feedback page with what you were doing at the time.

No. Coaching, analysis, and voice all need an internet connection, so a stable connection gives the best experience.

Sign in and open the feedback page. You can report problems, request improvements, and follow what the Cody team is working on.