FAQ
Straight Answers.
Including the Ones That Say “Not Yet”.
AccelaStudy® AI Chess is in development, so some answers here are plans rather than features. We say which is which.
Nothing on this page is a promise of a release date, a price, or a rating.
Before you wait
Availability and Devices
When can I use AccelaStudy AI Chess?
Not yet. It is in development and Coming Soon, and we have not announced a release date. The position on the home page is a small preview that saves nothing. If you want to hear when there is something to announce, join the waitlist.
How much will it cost?
We have not announced pricing. Nothing is for sale today, and there is no trial to start. When we have a price, we will put it on this site before we ask anyone for money.
Which devices will it run on?
We are building a web app and an app for iPhone® and iPad®. Both are in development and both read the same curriculum. What each one is planned to do →
Do I need an account to start?
The plan is no. You will be able to start practicing on a device without one, and your practice stays on that device. An AccelaStudy AI account is what we plan to use for syncing between devices and, later, for connecting a rating from a chess site. Signing up will not be a condition of trying the board.
Can I study offline?
Yes, that is a core part of the design. In the development web and iPhone and iPad clients, you can download puzzle packs and keep practicing with no connection, and your saved attempts stay on the device. The pause-and-resume downloads work today in the development clients; background downloading on the native app is still planned.
How much space does the whole library need?
The complete puzzle library is 6,193,530 puzzles in 3,102 packs. Downloading all of it is about 1.71 GB, and the packs expand to about 12.98 GB before indexes and overhead. You choose what to download, and the app is designed to show the size and your free space before you commit. A browser can cap what a web app may store, so a phone or a computer with plenty of disk can still hit a limit in the browser. More on storage →
What the numbers mean
Puzzles, Ratings, and Targets
Where do the puzzles come from?
From the Lichess puzzle database, which is released under CC0. We converted the whole thing and verified it: 6,193,530 puzzles, each with its original solution. AccelaStudy AI Chess is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lichess. About the source collection →
What does a 1,600 target mean, and why does the pool have a name?
A target such as Toward 1,600 aims at a rating of 1,600 on one specific rating list, which today is Lichess rapid. Rating lists do not agree with each other. Lichess uses a Glicko-2 system, FIDE uses Elo, and there is no fixed conversion between them, so an unlabeled 1,600 would mean different things to different people. We always say which pool we mean.
Will the app give me a rating?
No. AccelaStudy AI Chess will never assign you a rating, and it will never turn a puzzle rating into a playing rating. A puzzle's difficulty number describes the puzzle. We keep three things apart: your learning progress, AVIAN’s readiness estimate (planned, and absent until the model is calibrated), and a verified rating recorded by the chess site you play on.
What happens when I reach my target?
Graduating from a target path is planned to require two things: demonstrated play in that pool, and the course’s own learning requirements. Finishing lessons alone will not count, and neither will a single good rating. The exact rules, including how many recent rated games are enough, are candidates that we are still validating, so we are not publishing numbers yet.
Can it guarantee that I will improve?
No. Nobody can honestly promise a rating gain or a schedule for one. What we can promise is the design: practice that is matched to what you keep missing, and a target that is only marked reached when your play in that pool shows it.
Is it for complete beginners?
Yes. The plan starts with a learn-to-play path that covers the pieces, legal moves, check, and checkmate before it moves on to tactics. Those lessons are planned and are not built yet, so the puzzle practice available in the development clients is not the right place for a first-ever game.
I am already a strong player. Is there anything here for me?
The plan includes 10 paths in all, with rating targets running from 800 up to 2,400 on Lichess rapid. The higher paths come after chess-expert review rather than on the first day, and we would rather release fewer paths that hold up than all of them at once. For a strong player, the full tactics library is the part that exists today; openings, game review, and the upper paths are planned.
What the AI does and does not do
Explanations, Narration, and Fair Play
Will every puzzle have an AI explanation?
No. Every puzzle keeps its original solution. Explanations are being developed separately, and we are not presenting the full library as a finished set of AI lessons. Where an explanation exists, it is written from facts about the board that are checked against the legal moves, and it is labeled as an explanation rather than part of the source puzzle.
Can I have explanations read aloud?
That is planned. Narration will be generated when you ask for it and kept for reuse, so a request is made once. The written explanation stays on the screen while audio is preparing, and the app will say plainly when audio is unavailable rather than leave you guessing.
What about fair play in live games?
During a live rated game, hints, coaching, and analysis are off. Review starts after the game ends. Playing rated games is planned and is not built yet, and when it is, the same rule covers correspondence games: no help from the app until the game is over.
How does AVIAN decide what to study next?
AVIAN is AccelaStudy AI’s adaptive learning engine, and choosing what comes next is what it is planned to do: look at what you solved, what needed a hint, what you revealed, and what you keep missing, and move you toward your target. That connection is not built yet. Today the development clients save your chosen target and start practice that matches the module you picked, and they record each result on your device.
Your practice, your device
Privacy
Is my practice history private?
Yes. In the development clients, your attempts and results are saved on your own device and are not uploaded. Sync with an AccelaStudy AI account is planned. Moving history that was made before you signed in will take an explicit step on your part, and signing in as a different person will not expose or upload anyone else’s history. The preview on the home page saves nothing at all.
A note on the source: the puzzle library comes from the Lichess puzzle database, released under CC0. AccelaStudy AI Chess is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lichess, and Lichess is named here only to say where the puzzles come from and which rating list a target uses.
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