What is Chessware?

Chessware is a chess cheat for your PC. It injects into your browser, watches the board on chess.com or lichess.org, and gives you engine-strength help that plays like a human: best-move overlays, four engines, Elo control, play styles, auto play with natural timing, and an opening book — all in a clean in-game menu that the sites can't see.

This page explains what Chessware does, who it's for and how to get it.

What Chessware does

Everything runs on your PC, inside your browser:

• Engine help on the live board. Pick Stockfish, Leela, Maia or Berserk, set an Elo range, and see the best moves right on the board as arrows, dots, boxes, glow and tags.
• Plays like a human. Choose a play style (Kasparov, Fischer, Karpov or Tal), let occasional inaccuracies and mistakes through, and let random timing space out your moves.
• Auto play. Chessware can play your moves for you with trusted, human-like mouse input — no robotic click patterns.
• Openings. Pick an opening from the book, follow its lines move by move, or have Chessware play the opening for you.
• Keybinds. Play the best move, toggle auto play, resign or offer a draw with one key.
• Extras. Forced-mate sequences, threats, brilliant-move badges, ad removal, pop-up removal and a client-side anti-cheat evasion mode.

Features grow and change between releases. For what's new in each version, see the changelog.

The app

Chessware is the desktop app for Windows 10 and Windows 11 (64-bit). You download it from your dashboard, sign in with your license key, pick your platform and press Inject. All four engines are bundled inside the app — nothing else to download or install.

Read more on the Chessware page.

Who it's for

Chessware is for players who want to win on their own terms:

• players who want engine help on chess.com or lichess.org without the obvious signs;
• players who want to climb at a believable pace instead of teleporting to a new rating; and
• players who want a clean, modern menu inside the game, not a clunky overlay.

Note: Chessware is a cheat. Using it against the rules of a platform can get your account there closed, and that risk is yours. The tools to stay believable — Elo ranges, play styles, human-like timing — are built in. Read the full Acceptable Use policy.

How to get Chessware

1. Sign in at https://chessware.net with your Discord account.
2. Pick a plan. Payment is handled securely by Stripe.
3. Open your dashboard and download Chessware from the Downloads tab.
4. Open Chessware, log in with the license key shown on the Licenses tab, pick your platform and press Inject.

The quickstart walks through each step in detail. Before you buy, check the system requirements.