foxychess.com
Play chess online free – no card, no time limit
Play smarter.
Outfox everyone.
Real opponents and your own rating, free with a free account. Then learn the traps, gambits and openings that win games.
And that is not the whole board.
Foxy’s HubYour coaching homebase.›
Foxy’s Hub
Everything in one place — play, train, practise
PLAY
Play FoxyThe house hustler›
Play BotsTuned engines›
Play OnlineReal opponents›
Grandmaster GamesPlay your favourite grandmaster›
ONLY HERE
Calculation trainerLook ahead until it is automatic›Foxy TrainingA plan you can rewrite in Settings›
THE REST OF THE BOARD
OpeningsBuild a small repertoire›
GambitsPawn sacs and the sting›
TrapsCunning ideas and the refutations›
TacticsForks, pins, skewers and more›
CheckmatesMate in 1 to 5 and named patterns›
DefendFind the move that saves the game›
EndgamesConvert what you should win›
Play
Foxy hustles. Bots calculate. Online is people.
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32 characters, from first steps to 2800.
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Choose your time control.
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Which GM will you play as today?
Watch their games, or play them move by move.
Every course. Every trap. One price.
Learn openings, gambits and traps move by move, drill tactics and endgames, then prove it all against Foxy — the hustler who plays those traps against you.
Join free. The whole site is yours for 7 days.
- Everything on FoxyChess for your first 7 days, no card needed
- Then, still free: online games against real people, with your own rating
- 4 bots to play, as often as you like
- 3 openings, 3 gambits, 3 traps and 3 tactics
What a single course costs elsewhere
Average of 14 opening, tactics and strategy courses listed on two major chess course sites, at their sale prices, checked on 26 September 2026. Both sites also sell memberships that include some of their courses.
Our entire library, priced like those courses
We count only sets of 15 lines or more; our 44 smaller trap and gambit sets are left out. This is our library valued at the average text-course price above — not what any other site charges for these topics.
And on top of the courses, Foxy also includes:
An opponent who plays real traps and gambits against you, then shows you where he set them up.
Plan the whole line on the board first, then play it.
A daily plan that mixes openings, tactics, games and review for you.
Play the winner’s moves yourself, from Morphy to Carlsen.
From gentle beginners to strong players, each with a voice of their own.
Lucena, Philidor, opposition and more, played out on the board.
Choose how you join
Yearly
£120 a yearEverything included. Works out at £10 a month — £60 less than paying monthly (£180 a year).
Renews at £120 a year unless you cancel. We'll email you before it renews.
Monthly
£15 a monthEverything included. Cancel any time; it stops at the end of the month you’ve paid for.
Free
£0The whole site free for 7 days. Then online play, 4 bots, and 3 each of the openings, gambits, traps and tactics stay free.
Paid plans renew automatically; cancel any time in Settings → Manage subscription, and you keep access until the end of the period you've paid for. 14-day money-back guarantee on your first payment. The yearly saving applies only when you pay for the whole year in one payment. You can type a creator code on the payment page. See our Terms, Cancellation and Refund Policy and Privacy Policy.
How FoxyChess works
What happens on each screen, and why.
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Credits
Puzzles from Lichess; grandmaster photos from Wikimedia Commons.
Tactics, Checkmates and Defend puzzles come from the Lichess puzzle database, shared under CC0.
Every grandmaster photo on FoxyChess is either in the public domain or shared under a free Creative Commons licence (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA). Photos are cropped to fit the round frames, and copies are stored on FoxyChess. Tap a licence to read it, or Wikimedia Commons to see the original photo.
Use of a photo doesn’t mean the player or the photographer endorses FoxyChess.
Chess pieces: Classic by Colin M. L. Burnett and Merida by Armando Hernández Marroquín (GPL), Chessnut by Alexis Luengas (Apache 2.0), Celtic and Spatial by Maurizio Monge (MIT), Kiwen-suwi by neverRare (CC BY 4.0) — all as shared by the Lichess project.
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Every opening, trap, gambit, puzzle and GM game.
Play Foxy
Not an engine.
A hustler.
Foxy plays like a sharp player to catch you out with traps, gambits and tactics.
Where bots discard a sharp line, he may take it to trap you.
He hunts patterns all game: forks, pins, loose pieces and mating nets.
If a trick is on the board, he hunts it down.
Foxy by name, foxy by nature.
Foxy Training
Train the Foxy way — or yours.
1. Foxy plans it
Foxy plans your training and tracks progress.
2. Line by line
Four families at a time, ten lines each. Master a family and it drops out, and the next one joins.
3. Watch your Elo grow
Learned lines come back for a quick check, so they stick — and your Elo grows.
4. Your way
Change your plan anytime in Settings.
Calculation training
Make looking
ahead automatic.
Helps you learn to calculate only when the position demands it.
Train your brain to look ahead for your moves — and your opponent’s — and use it in real games.
A tension detector starts an exercise only when it matters.
Calculations start at up to 4 moves (change it in Settings, up to 10). Add extra moves if you like, then Submit to continue the game.
Foxy Training
Progress and settings
Families in your training
In training order. Foxy rotates round 4 families of each type, 10 lines at a time; a learned family drops out and the next ticked one joins.
Foxy Training Progress
Foxy Training Settings
Choose what to include in your Foxy Training and how many of each. Set to 0 or turn off to skip any section.
Foxy Training builds your training sequence using the options above. You can change these settings at any time. Progress is saved automatically.
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Settings
Tune the board to your taste.
The most the calculation trainer will ask for. You can always enter extra moves before you Submit.
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