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Opponent prep

Learn how to defeat your opponent: a plan built from their recent games.

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Open Learn, Beat an opponent. Enter a chess.com username. chessGM studies their recent public games (and yours if you add your name), finds their strengths and weak spots, and builds a training plan to beat them. It reads chess.com’s public data API only, and chessGM is not affiliated with Chess.com.

Opponent prep

What you get

  • Their favourite openings as White and Black, and how they score.
  • Typical mistakes, the phases where they struggle and their time habits.
  • How their openings meet yours.
  • A plan with steps: lines to study, puzzles from their typical positions and games to learn from.

Use it for

  • A tournament round, a match against a friend, a club rival.
  • Learning from a stronger player: study their style.
  • Preparing a game on chess.com against a specific opponent.

Only public games are used. Choose which speeds to study (blitz, rapid, bullet, or all).

Tip: do not prepare more than you can remember. Two or three concrete ideas beat a list of twenty.

Open in the app: https://chessgm.net/train/prep

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chessGM is not affiliated with Chess.com, Lichess or Stockfish; they are named only to say what the app can read or compare with.

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