
Chesslang.com – A Product of Shortcastle
Run Tournaments & Group classes within minutes from your chess academy website
Group classes | Swiss, Quad, Team Tournaments| Simul | Game Area |
Assignments | Share Databases| Practice
Integrate white labelled chess platform under
online.<yourchessacademy.com>

"Chesslang is a great platform for chess academies & Coaches" - Nigel Short
You need Chesslang if.....
- You want to run your chess academy/club online uninterrupted
- You want to conduct interactive group classes with audio-video call
- You want your students to play casual games & tournaments
- You want to share games, homework & practice puzzles
- Top reason : Integrate all these features into your chess academy website in 2 mins. Yes!
Learn why Successful Chess Academies use Chesslang.com!
CHESSLANG EXPLAINED IN A MINUTE
WHAT DO COACHES SAY ABOUT US?
“chesslang is an amazing and must have platform for every single coach. I think you guys have revolutionised chess coaching industry!”

Finally a single platform where a class coach can manage, track and coach their students with ease. Wishing hesslang team all success!”

TOP FEATURES
ONLINE CLASSROOM
Conduct individual and group classes with integrated audio-video, interactive chessboard, reward points, real-time leaderboard, animated expressions, and more.
ONLINE TOURNAMENTS
Conduct online tournaments and invite parents and others to watch the games live from your website!
SIMUL
Play simultaneous chess with your students and observe their game skills in real-time.
GAME AREA
Let your students play casual games with each other. Create manual pairings, watch the games live, and view history of games.
ASSIGN HOMEWORK
Create assignments or homework problems for your students and track their performance by seeing all their attempts along with time taken.
SHARE DATABASES
Upload, annotate, and share database games with your students. Get access to our database of problems.
PRACTICE DRILLS
Let your students master the basic checkmates, must-know positions, and checkmating patterns by practicing them against the computer.
BLINDFOLD CHESS
Your students can play blindfold chess against the computer to improve their calculation and visualization skills.

Conduct interactive group classes
You no longer need boring and non-interactive applications to conduct online group classes. Now you can use Chesslang’s Classroom to keep your students engaged.
- Integrated audio-video call
- Interactive chessboard
- Ask questions
- Reward points for students
- Real-time leaderboard
- Send animated expressions
Conduct online rating tournaments
Run tournaments in multiple formats and rating systems, invite parents and others to watch the games LIVE from your website!
- Swiss, Quad, and Team tournaments
- FIDE, USCF, and your Academy ELO ratings
- Built-in engine detection (anti-cheating)
- Auto-save games for analysis
- Public LIVE games with custom branding
- Thematic tournaments with custom FEN
- Edit results & Replay games


Play simul with your students
Play simultaneous exhibitions with your academy/club students and observe their skills at the same time.
- Play with multiple students simultaneously
- Set additional time for simul host
- Choose the color to play (with random color option)
- Easy switch between games (automatic and manual)
- Public LIVE games with custom branding
- Replay simul games
Casual games in Game Area
You and your students can play friendly games by sending invites. You can also manually pair them and watch their games live.
- Send and accept game invites
- Create manual pairings
- Watch the games live
- Auto-save games for analysis
- Disallow draw/resign options

Frequently ASKED QUESTIONS
The first and foremost difference is that your students will login to your academy/club website for training and playing activities, and not Chesslang.com.
Chesslang is a platform for chess academies. An all-in-one Swiss army knife with tools that help you with training your students, conducting tournaments, storing games, managing multiple coaches, and much more in a box.
Reach out to us, we will integrate a completely white-labeled platform under online.<yourwebsite>.com. The integration takes only 5 minutes with simple instructions.
With Chesslang’s Classroom, you can conduct individual or group classes and stay connected with your students through the built-in audio-video call. The real-time chessboard and tools to highlight squares, draw arrows, highlight pawn structures, etc. help you in teaching your students effectively. You can also send animated expressions, ask your students questions, and reward them with points to boost engagement.
Yes, you can conduct online tournaments for your academy students in multiple formats: Swiss, Quad, and Team. We also support 3 rating systems: FIDE, USCF, and an internal ELO rating system for your academy. After the ratings are set, the players will be seeded accordingly.
You can set the official USCF ID for your academy students and then sync their live USCF ratings with just a click of a button. Upon the tournament completion, you can download the DBF file of the tournament and then submit the tournament report by logging in to the USCF TD/Affiliate Support Area.
On an average, students take classes once or twice a week. You might be sharing tactics to solve as homework during academy off days either through email or WhatsApp or sometimes in papers.
With Chesslang, you can share homework and students can solve them within the platform. Bonus, you can track all the right and wrong responses of the students, along with the time taken for each attempt. See the trend of how your students are solving over time.
With Chesslang’s public LIVE, all the live games of your academy tournaments and simuls will be broadcasted in a public live page. Best of all, you can configure the public live page, add your academy logo and branding elements, promote your upcoming events – which will be seen by parents and others when they visit your site to watch the games live.
We will provide a website free of cost for Gold, Platinum and Diamond subscriptions (refer to the pricing section to know more). You can take a look at the websites we built for chess academies and federations around the world – click here
Students can attend your online classes, play casual games and tournaments, solve homework, practice positions, blindfold chess, etc. – all this from your academy website.
No issues. Drop an email to support@shortcastle.com and expect a ‘tada’ reply!
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Pricing Plans (in USD)
Go with your right one. Features same for all plans.
Silver
Full-time Individual Coaches- 15 student account
- White-labelled Integration
- Game play access
- Online coaching
- Database access
- Share games
- Share assignment
- Blindfold chess
- Engine analysis
- Practice positions
- Free SSL Cert
Gold
Growing Academies- 30 student account
- White-labelled Integration
- Game play access
- Online coaching
- Database access
- Share games
- Share assignment
- Blindfold chess
- Engine analysis
- Practice positions
- Free SSL Cert
Platinum
Established Academies- 60 student account
- White-labelled Integration
- Game play access
- Online coaching
- Database access
- Share games
- Share assignment
- Blindfold chess
- Engine analysis
- Practice positions
- Free SSL Cert
Diamond
Elite Academies- 100 student account
- White-labelled Integration
- Customized Login Page (New)
- Game play access
- Online coaching
- Database access
- Share games
- Share assignment
- Blindfold chess
- Engine analysis
- Practice positions
- Free SSL Cert
Enterprise
Premium Academies- 100+ student account
- White-labelled Integration
- Game play access
- Online coaching
- Database access
- Share games
- Share assignment
- Blindfold chess
- Engine analysis
- Practice positions
- Free SSL Cert
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