For Lichess players
Analyze your Lichess games: from evaluation to understanding
Lichess gives you the most honest analysis in chess: every mistake, every evaluation, completely free. What it does not give you is a conversation about why YOU played that move. That is the layer Rookion adds on top.
- German AI startup
- Database in Frankfurt (EU)
- GDPR-compliant
“In my very first game, Rookion pointed straight at my blind spot.”
A move I hadn't even seen, and a tactic where I'd missed winning a piece — plus a concrete tip on how to avoid such mistakes in future. An instant aha-and-wow moment. As a youth coach, I'll be using Rookion with my kids in training.
From your Lichess game to a coaching conversation
Load your games
Enter your Lichess username and load your recent games directly. Or paste a PGN from the Lichess export, or take a photo of the scoresheet from your over-the-board game.
Moments, not a graveyard of numbers
Rookion analyzes the game and finds up to 5 decisive moments: not every inaccuracy, but the spots where the game actually turned.
Your thinking, in dialogue
In the dialogue, Rookion reflects on your thought process together with you. Over several questions you work out what led you to your move and what to watch for next time.
Online or over the board: how your game gets into Rookion
A Lichess game, a blitz game on Chess.com or a tournament game on a paper scoresheet: one of these ways is all you need.
Lichess or Chess.com
Enter your username and Rookion loads your recent games. You need a free account for this.
Paste a PGN
From any platform or your own database, as text or as a file. In the free analysis, no account needed.
Photo of your scoresheet
For tournament and club games: Rookion reads the moves from the photo and you check them on the board before the analysis starts. Try it with a free account, use it regularly with Pro.
Standard game analysis or a coaching conversation with Rookion?
Analysis on other platforms
- Shows you every mistake and every evaluation, completely free.
- Does not work out your thought process together with you and does not identify the weak spots in your thinking.
- Does not show you what to watch for next time.
Coaching conversation with Rookion
- Finds up to 5 decisive moments: the spots where the game actually turned.
- Reflects on your thought process together with you, over several questions, and shows you what to watch for next time.
- Several verification layers and safety mechanisms work to make sure the chess answers you get are correct.
- Alongside your chess platforms: keep playing and analyzing wherever you like, reflect afterwards on what happened, and recognize your thinking errors.
User voices
What users have learned with Rookion
“I didn't know a single move can attack and defend at the same time.”
Since the coach showed me that in my own position, I actively look for exactly those moves. My game has become calmer and stronger because of it.
“I had never even heard the term king safety before.”
I didn't realize my king needs active protection at all. In coaching I saw how often I attack and leave him completely open. Since then I make sure a piece covers him, often a rook on the first rank is enough.
Real voices from users, published with their consent.
What does it cost?
Getting started is free: import games by username or PGN and analyze them as much as you want, build your own game collection and have free AI coaching conversations every month. If you want to talk through every game or support a young, independent project, Pro gives you unlimited AI coaching plus the opening repertoire. Details on the pricing page.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need an account?
How do I get the PGN of my online and over-the-board games?
Online, without an account: get the PGN from the game. On Lichess, it is available below the game ("Download annotated" or "Download raw"); on Chess.com, open the game, click the Share icon at the bottom of the analysis and select the "PGN" tab. Then paste the PGN into the free analysis, as text or as a file.
Online, with a free account: you do not need the PGN. Enter your Lichess username and Rookion loads your 10 most recent games through the public Lichess API.
Over the board, from a tournament or your club: take a photo of your scoresheet. Rookion reads the moves and you check them on the board before the analysis starts. You need a free account for this; you can try the photo import there, and use it regularly with Pro.
Is this compatible with fair play?
What happens to my games?
Try it on your last game
No account needed, right in your browser: the free analysis shows you the most important moment.
Rookion is an independent product and is not affiliated with Lichess or Chess.com.