Your brain deserves better breaks.

Snap Chess is a tiny, translucent chessboard that lives in the corner of your screen. No launcher, no lobby, no fuss — just move your mouse to the corner and there's a puzzle waiting. Solve it, feel smarter, get back to work. The board fades away when you don't need it.

144,000 puzzles at your fingertips

Real positions from real games — forks, pins, sacrifices, mates in one, two, or five. Every puzzle has a best answer. Find it on the first try and you'll know you earned it; miss it and the board quietly lets you try again. One puzzle takes a minute. "One more" takes an afternoon.

A challenge that fits you — invisibly

No difficulty sliders, no rating anxiety. Snap Chess quietly learns how you play — every solve, every miss, every match — and serves puzzles and opponents that sit exactly on the edge of your ability. Hard enough to make you think. Never so hard you stop.

A real opponent, one click away

Switch to Match mode and play full games against an engine that scales from "learning the moves" to "how did it see that?". Powered by Stockfish, the strongest chess engine in the world — tamed to be a good training partner, not a bully.

Built to stay out of your way

• Sits on your desktop, always on top, click-through when you're not using it
  
• Adjustable transparency — from solid board to a ghost you barely see
  
• Resize with your scroll wheel, park it in any corner
  
• Your match and your puzzle survive restarts — close anytime, resume anytime
  
• No account, no ads, no internet required

Five minutes of real thinking beats an hour of scrolling. Keep a chessboard within reach.