Introducing GlassKnight
Meet your chess companion for understanding the board, learning from your games, and putting the next idea into practice.
GlassKnight
Chess is full of positions that make sense a move too late. You finish a game, see a better move, and wonder what you could have noticed at the board.
GlassKnight brings coaching, game review, and practice into one desktop app for Mac and Windows. The idea is simple: understand a moment, explore it for yourself, and take something useful into your next game.
Another perspective while you practice
Live Coach follows the board on your screen and brings opportunities, pressure, and serious risks to your attention. It gives you another reason to look at the position. You still choose your moves and move the pieces yourself.
Open your chessboard, start a game from GlassKnight, and select a display if prompted. Keep the board visible and unobstructed so the app can follow the moves. Slower games give you more room to think through an idea before asking for the next one.
Use live assistance in computer games or other settings where outside help is explicitly allowed. For games against people, come back to Game Review afterward unless assistance is expressly permitted.
Return to the moments that mattered
A finished game is a starting point for learning. Game Review lets you walk through your coached games or import a completed game as PGN. Move grades, accuracy, an evaluation bar, and explanations with audio help you take a closer look at what changed.
Full Game Review adds Highlights to revisit useful moments and explore continuations. A line shows one way a position could develop. Your opponent can choose a different reply, so the useful part is understanding the idea behind the moves.
Give an idea another try
Seeing the answer once is different from finding it yourself. Game Puzzles in Full Game Review turn selected positions from your games into another chance to think at the board.
There is also a separate Puzzles library for practice beyond an individual review. You can work through a position, test your calculation, and build the habit of looking for what matters before making a move.
Follow your own questions in Chess Lab
Sometimes you want to explore a position without playing through a whole game. Add a board image or set up the pieces in Chess Lab, then try out your ideas against the bot.
Change the position, explore a different reply, and see what survives. Full Chess Lab adds Live Coach during practice, so you can bring that same extra perspective to the positions you choose.
Built around your desktop
Chess analysis and screen recognition run on your device. Account services, private game backups, submitted feedback, and some speech features use online services. Your saved games are not published to a community feed.
The dashboard keeps your games within reach, so you can move from playing to reviewing and practicing without losing the thread of what you wanted to understand.
This is the beginning
We are building GlassKnight around a small learning loop: play, look back, and try again. The aim is to make the next question easier to explore, whether it comes from a game you just finished or a position you have been thinking about.
This blog is where we will share product updates, practical explanations, and ideas worth taking back to the board. Thanks for being here at the beginning.