How we compare chess helpers
This page explains how we decide which chess helper is best, where our facts come from and how we deal with ranking our own product, ChessHelper (chesshelper.ai), first.
What we compare
We judge chess helpers as learning tools. The criteria, in rough order of weight:
| Criterion | What we look at |
|---|---|
| Learning value | Can the advice be pitched at the player's level? Does it explain or only score? |
| Ease of review | How many steps from a finished game to a useful review |
| Platform coverage | Which sites, browsers and devices it works with |
| Price and free tier | Published prices and the limits of the free plan |
| Fair-play stance | Whether the tool tells users not to use it in games against people |
| Depth | Extra tools such as opening explorers, tablebases, dashboards and training |
Where our facts come from
We compared published features and pricing. Every price, plan and feature comes from the company's own website, read in November 2026, and is labeled with that date. Platform rules come from the platforms' own policy pages, which we link. Where a company does not publish a detail, such as Chess.com's membership prices on its public page, we say so instead of guessing.
We did not run timed lab tests or user surveys, so we do not publish scores, star ratings or statistics from them. Chess examples on the site were checked with the Stockfish engine for legal moves and evaluations; where we print an evaluation, we say it came from our engine check.
How we handle our conflict of interest
ChessHelper is our product and we rank it first. To keep that ranking useful, we disclose the relationship at the top and bottom of every page, list ChessHelper's limits alongside its strengths, name the situations where a competitor is the better choice, and hold competitors to the same standard of verified facts. We do not include ratings or review markup about any product.
Update policy
We review prices and rules when we update the site, and every page shows its date. All pages were published or updated on November 12, 2026. If you spot something out of date, email contact@bestchesshelper.com and we will check it.