Rate Yourself
Play through historic chess positions and discover your rating, measured on the same scale as 50+ chess engines benchmarked over the years.
Pick a school of chess history below. You'll play one move at every position. Each move is scored from -15 (gross blunder) to +30 (best move). At the end you'll see your rating and how it compares to engines tested on the same positions.
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15th–18th century
Renaissance School
The earliest documented games, from De Castellvi vs Vinoles 1475 onwards.
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Early 19th century
Romantic School
Sacrificial, attacking chess — Loewenthal, Szen, and the era that produced the Immortal Game.
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1839–1853
Berlin School
Bledow, Von Bilguer and the German contemporaries of the early Romantic era.
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Early–mid 19th century
Paris School
McDonnell, De Labourdonnais and the French era.
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Mid-19th century
London School
Staunton, Saint-Amant and the rise of British chess.
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Late 19th century
Classical School
Steinitz, Tarrasch, the codification of positional play.
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Mid-19th century
Immortal School
The most famous games in history — Anderssen vs Kieseritzky 1851 and its peers.
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Methodology and test data by SpaciousMind. Used with permission.