A guided tour of Meier Chess
Every position.The entire game.
Meier Chess unfolds one game into a visual world of connected positions. Pan across its story, zoom into critical moments, and understand how every move changes what comes next.
Import a PGN, play the computer, analyze with the engine, compare variations, annotate ideas, and prepare a studio-ready view—all in your browser.
The complete gameOne game. Every meaningful position.
Make it yours
Multiple boards. Multiple piece sets.
Shape the game around your style. Every board theme and piece set works everywhere in Meier Chess.
210board and piece combinations
Board themes
Choose from the complete board collection.
Light yellow and green
Light gray and blue
Ivory and olive
Purple
Teal
Coral
Brushed Metal
Wood 1
Wood 2
Slate
Journal Paper
Ruby
Borghini Marble
Medusa Mosaic
Piece sets
Pair any board with the pieces that feel right to you.
Classic (Cburnett)
Merida
Mathematical
Jazz
Ocean
Timber
Arbor
Nero Dorato
Jade
Lapis
Crumpled Magazine
Ancient Greek
Celestial Star
Sumi-e
Live on the board
Watch your game unfold.
Explore your way
Four spaces. One connected chess experience.
Play
Play a game, then go deeper.
Challenge the computer or let engines play each other. Replay the result, inspect critical moments, compare variations, and continue from any position.
Start a gameLeaves the tour
- Play against the engine or watch two computer opponents contest a complete game.
- Choose the side, engine strength, maximum thinking time, and chess clock.
- Follow the evaluation graph, see who has the advantage, and compare the positions around every turning point.
- Find inaccuracies, mistakes, and blunders with stronger alternatives ready to explore.
- Compare and replay up to six engine variations simultaneously as playable miniature boards.
- Read strategic, tactical, and endgame factors through dedicated positional analysis and visualize the ideas on the active board.
- Take over from any analyzed position and test a different continuation yourself.
- Build a Branch World where alternative decisions become connected position boards.
Workspace
Unfold a game into a visual world.
Import a PGN and move across its connected positions. Compare moments, follow pieces, draw ideas, and see the game develop beyond the limits of a single board.
Open the workspaceLeaves the tour
- Import or paste complete PGN games while preserving comments, metadata, assessments, and variations.
- See every completed fullmove as an independently interactive board in one connected spatial world.
- Pan, zoom, center, and navigate large games quickly with the workspace minimap and game information.
- Track up to six exact pieces across positions to see where each one moves, survives, or disappears.
- Draw colored arrows and highlights, then reveal attackers and defenders on any chosen position.
- Assess moves with standard NAG symbols and keep position-specific annotations attached to their boards.
- Review the complete game with the engine or begin a new playable game from any visible position.
- Use to prepare a clean, distraction-free view for teaching, presentations, streaming, or capture with your preferred tools.
Puzzles
Turn calculation into a visible journey.
Solve tactical positions at your level, follow the continuation on the board, and build a clear record of your progress directly in the browser.
Solve puzzlesLeaves the tour
- Choose from five difficulty levels, from approachable positions through Maximum challenges.
- Practice checkmates, forks, sacrifices, defense, endgames, quiet moves, and other tactical themes.
- Use an elapsed timer, hide time pressure entirely, or let the next puzzle continue automatically.
- Solve each position independently or play the complete solution move by move when you need it.
- Review the continuation, try the same puzzle again, or move directly to the next challenge.
- See the side to move, objective, tactical theme, and puzzle rating alongside the active board.
- Capture a branded board with a custom caption, then copy the image or download it as a PNG.
- Track attempted, solved, and unassisted puzzles together with completion times and category progress.
Game library
A world-class chess library, ready to explore.
Search an extensive collection across generations, from the great classical masters to modern champions. Every game is ready to inspect, replay, analyze, export, or open as a complete visual world.
Explore the Game LibraryLeaves the tour
116master players
243,959unique games
- Search by player, opening, opponent, event, year, result, or ECO and combine filters to narrow the library.
- Browse players and openings, save favorites, compare careers, and return quickly to the collections you value.
- Read player biographies and career context without leaving the library, then continue on Wikipedia when desired.
- Preview and replay every move on a full board while preserving the current search and selected collection.
- Review a complete game move by move with engine evaluation and the full Play analysis toolkit.
- Open the game in Workspace to see every completed fullmove together as connected position boards.
- Copy or download the original PGN whenever you want to archive, share, or use it elsewhere.
- Continue playing from a position to test an alternative idea against the computer yourself.