A chess.com Game Review alternative for all your games
Chess.com Game Review grades every move of one game. If you want to know what you get wrong in every game, you need your games read together. Chess X-Ray reads your recent chess.com or Lichess games and gives you the 10 mistakes you repeat most, as lessons.
1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Qh5
How it works
- Type your usernamechess.com or Lichess. No password, nothing to install: we read your public games.
- Stockfish reads your gamesYour recent games, every time control, and what each of your moves cost.
- Your repeats come outThe positions you keep reaching, where you play the same losing move again and again.
- You replay them as lessonsYour exact position, your usual move in red, your turn to find better, then the right line and the point to remember.
Game Review and Chess X-Ray side by side
| chess.com Game Review | Chess X-Ray | |
|---|---|---|
| Games read | One game at a time | Your recent games together |
| Sites | chess.com games | chess.com and Lichess |
| What you get | Accuracy, a label for every move, key moments | The 10 positions where your usual move costs you most |
| Training | Retry a move in the game you reviewed | Replay each repeated position until you find better |
| Across games | Insights: statistics on all your games (Diamond) | The repeated positions themselves, ranked |
| Free use | One full review a day on a free account | See the pricing page |
Facts checked on each tool’s own website on 2026-10-13. Features change: check their site before you decide. All the tools compared.
What Game Review does well
Game Review is the most polished review of a single game: an accuracy score, a label for every move from brilliant to blunder, the moments where the game turned, and a coach who explains threats on the board. Insights adds statistics on all your games: your openings, the tactics you found or missed, your accuracy by piece.
What one game cannot show you
A mistake you make once is bad luck. A mistake you make every week is a habit, and a habit does not show up in one game. Insights counts your missed forks, but it does not show you the position where you keep missing one.
Chess X-Ray looks for the positions you keep reaching and the move you keep playing there. Most of them are in your openings, because you reach the same positions so often. Each becomes a lesson: your move in red, your turn to find better, then the right line and the idea to remember.
Free alternatives for a single game
If you only want to review the game you just played, without a daily limit, the free game review on Chess X-Ray and the Lichess analysis board both run Stockfish on one game for free.
Which one should you choose?
- Keep Game Review if you play on chess.com and want to understand one game right after playing it.
- Choose Chess X-Ray if you want to know which mistakes you keep repeating across all your games, and to replay each one on your exact position until the right move comes without thinking. See how it works.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a free alternative to chess.com Game Review?
Yes. The Lichess analysis board runs Stockfish on any game for free, and the Chess X-Ray game review does the same from a PGN or a username.
How many free game reviews does chess.com give?
One full Game Review a day on a free account, according to chess.com’s help center. Paid memberships have no daily limit.
Can I analyze all my chess.com games at once?
chess.com Insights gives statistics on all your games with a Diamond membership. Chess X-Ray reads your recent games together and shows the positions where you repeat the same mistake.
Do you need my chess.com or Lichess password?
No. Chess X-Ray reads your games through the public chess.com or Lichess API, using your username. We never ask for your password and never sign in to your account.
Can I see a Chess X-Ray lesson before I start?
Yes. The streamers’ courses are built exactly like yours, from their public games, and open without an account.
Your blunders are already in your games.
Enter your chess.com or Lichess username: we turn them into lessons you replay until you stop making them.