Welcome to ChessCalisthenics. If you are new to the concept, it's a way to enjoy the game of chess while you train and improve. We focus our efforts on making available tactical chess positions in the context of real chess games. This is the bulk of the content on our site. Your chess training time is valuable, and on every page, we present you with multiples links to instructive tactical games . If you reviewed ten games a day for a year, this would represent about one percent of the number of games on our site.

The focus of the site is tactics training and visualization exercises.

If you are an intermediate player or a beginner, you may be able to improve your game quite a bit if you use the free version of the ChessCalisthenics Course. The focus of the course is structured exercises with recurring tactical patterns.

Depending on your strength and experience, the position sets below, each named after a chess piece, may be a good place to start.


The Bishop | The Rook | The Knight | The Queen | The Pawn