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Chess Checkup

Chess Checkup is powered by Elo+Chess.

We obtain your public game history, calculate a variety of chess metrics, and compare your metrics to players across the Elo spectrum.

Metrics that look below average are placed into the Start and Stop columns depending on the kind of advice they produce. Metrics that look above average are placed into the Continue to column.

For a more detailed analysis, continue to the full Elo+Chess website.

For a simple article illustrating some of these concepts, read Your Chess Teacher Was Right.

For a more detailed description of how benchmarks are calculated, read the benchmark methodology paper.