Comparison

Fianchetto vs Tabiya Chess

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Fianchetto

Features
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Fianchetto is your personal chess coach in your pocket. It combines playing against an engine, professional analysis of your own games, and personalized training built from your real mistakes - all fully offline, with no subscription and nothing ever sent to the cloud. TWO ENGINES, TWO PERSONALITIES • Caissa (modern NNUE) - shows the objectively best move. • Arasan - a classic engine with a more "human" playing style. Both are compiled natively and run 100% on your device. PLAY • Spar with the bot across five difficulty levels, from beginner to expert. • Choose your color, follow a live evaluation bar, and get engine hints. • Save any game to your Library and analyze it with a single tap. ANALYZE YOUR GAMES • Import games from Lichess and Chess.com (by username, from a link, or from a PGN file). • Every move classified: brilliant, best, inaccuracy, mistake, blunder, missed win. • Accuracy, ACPL, evaluation graph, and key moments of the game. • Quick and deep modes - catch the obvious errors first, then dig into the critical positions. ANALYSIS THAT TELLS A STORY • Every game gets a written recap split into chapters - not just numbers. • Arrows and highlights on the board, with detection of tactical motifs and opening plans. • Two narration tones: casual and technical. Available in English and Polish. TRAIN ON YOUR OWN MISTAKES • Daily puzzles generated automatically from your blunders - not from a generic database. • Smart spaced-repetition system (SM-2) and a daily streak to keep you motivated. • Train the openings you actually play: win rate, accuracy, and recurring mistakes. • Tactical stats, eval-loss heatmaps, and a ranking of your recurring weaknesses. • "Your game" dashboard: Game Score, a skill profile, and a weekly focus to improve. FREE POSITION ANALYSIS • Interactive board with a variation tree and MultiPV analysis. • Position editor, "threat goggles", arrows, and FEN/PGN paste. • Auto-saved sessions - jump back to the position you were analyzing yesterday. SCOUT YOUR OPPONENTS • Import a rival's games and prepare for the matchup. • Opening explorer, repertoire by color, and the opponent's recurring tactical weaknesses. PRIVACY FIRST • All analysis runs on your device - your positions never go to the cloud. • Your data (games, analyses, puzzles) is stored locally. You can wipe it anytime. Fianchetto is built for the club and amateur player who wants to improve systematically - with no subscription and no compromise on privacy. Install it, import your games, and start playing smarter.

About

Tabiya Chess

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Tabiya is the chess coach that starts where opening videos stop. A tabiya is the position where your opening theory runs out and the real game begins. Most club players get there and freeze. Tabiya teaches you what to do next — the pawn structure, the plans for both sides, the move order that gets you there — and then makes you play the plan against the engine until it sticks. UNDER 1000? START HERE The Booster hands you two complete repertoires — the Italian as White and one solid setup as Black — with every move explained, the five traps that decide beginner games, and courses on checkmate patterns, endgames and the habits that hang pieces. Learn them fully and you out-play almost everyone in your bracket. OVER 1000? SCAN YOUR GAMES Type your Lichess or Chess.com username. Tabiya downloads your recent games and analyses every one with Stockfish, running on your phone. You get a profile: what you actually play, where you actually lose, which habits cost you points (early queen, same piece twice, pawn grabs, bad trades, missed chances) and the four plan cards that would fix the most. 36 PLAN CARDS Not move lists — plans. Each card walks the move order to the tabiya, explains the pawn structure, shows the middlegame plans for both sides, then drills you: play the plan against the engine and get a verdict on whether you achieved the goals that matter in that structure. PUZZLES THAT ARE YOURS Engine-verified positions from real games, filtered by level, motif or the openings you play — plus your own mistakes, turned into a personal puzzle set from your scan. AI COACH Pick a coaching voice, ask about any position or paste a game, and get an explanation grounded in engine analysis rather than vibes. 5 free coach messages every day. 5 free coach messages every day. NO ACCOUNT, YOUR PROGRESS STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Progress lives on your device. An optional sync code mirrors it to a second device. Engine analysis is on-device. Only messages you send to the AI coach go to our server. Only messages you send to the AI coach go to our server. Engine: Stockfish (GPL). Board: Chessground. Puzzles: Lichess puzzle database (CC0).

Screenshots

Fianchetto4 screens
Tabiya Chess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tabiya Chess at none against Fianchetto's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Fianchetto versus Tabiya Chess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFianchettoTabiya Chess
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDawid WrzesinskiAlex Znamenskiy

In-app purchases

None

Fianchetto

No in-app purchases

None

Tabiya Chess

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fianchetto free?
Fianchetto is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tabiya Chess free?
Tabiya Chess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fianchetto or Tabiya Chess have ads?
Fianchetto shows ads; Tabiya Chess does not.

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