A Chessigma alternative focused on your repeated mistakes
Chessigma is a free game review in the chess.com style, with puzzles, bots and trainers around it. Chess X-Ray does one thing: it reads your recent chess.com or Lichess games together and gives you the 10 mistakes you repeat most, each as a lesson on your exact position.
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.
Chessigma and Chess X-Ray side by side
| Chessigma | Chess X-Ray | |
|---|---|---|
| Games read | One game per review; a report across games for members | Your recent games together |
| Sites | chess.com, Lichess, PGN | chess.com, Lichess |
| What you get | Move grades, accuracy, puzzles, bots, opening trainer | The 10 positions where your usual move costs you most |
| Training | Puzzles and drills, some cut from your games | Your exact position, your usual move, then you find better |
| Explanations | An AI coach chat for members | The right line and one idea to remember, in words |
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 Chessigma does well
Chessigma reviews games for free with no daily limit, runs Stockfish on your own device and needs no account for a review. Around it come unlimited puzzles, an opening trainer, human-like bots and tactics sets. Its members also get a report across their games and drills from their own positions.
Where Chess X-Ray is different
Chessigma gives you many tools and lets you choose. Chess X-Ray gives you one short answer: the 10 positions where your usual move costs you most, ranked, with nothing else to explore. Each lesson shows your move in red, lets you look for better, then gives the right line and the point to remember. Chess X-Ray also builds masterclasses on the openings you really play.
Which one should you choose?
- Choose Chessigma if you want unlimited free reviews of single games and a large training toolbox.
- 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 Chessigma free?
Its game review and puzzles are free. A paid membership adds the report across your games, the drills from your positions and the AI coach. See Chessigma’s pricing page.
Can I use Chessigma and Chess X-Ray together?
Yes. Many players review the game they just played with a free review, and use Chess X-Ray to find the mistakes they repeat across all their games.
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.