TacticForge vs Brilliancy

TacticForge turns the mistakes in your chess games into targeted tactics training. Stop grinding random puzzles that don’t match how you play. Connect Lichess or Chess.com, pull positions from your own games, and train the patterns you actually miss — then lock them in with spaced review. TRAIN THE WAY YOU LEARN • Puzzle Rush — race the clock and solve as many as you can in 3 minutes • Daily Challenge — a fresh set every day to keep your streak alive • Practice — unlimited rated puzzles at your level • My Puzzles — tactics mined from your real blunders and misses • Review — spaced repetition so hard positions stick • Weaknesses — drill motifs and themes where you struggle most PLAY & IMPROVE • Play vs Computer — on-device Stockfish with adjustable strength • Eval bar, takebacks, hints, and opening names while you play • Private analysis that stays on your device TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Tactical rating and XP • Streaks and activity • Rating history charts on your profile FREE TO START Download free and train right away. Analysis for personal puzzles uses a daily quota on the free plan (2 games/day). Upgrade to Premium Monthly ($4.99/month, auto-renewable) in the app for 10 analyses per day. Sign in with Apple, Google, or email — one account works on iOS and web. Privacy Policy: https://tacticforge.fun/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://tacticforge.fun/terms Support: https://tacticforge.fun

Every position in Brilliancy is a real moment from a real grandmaster game, most of them played within the last few days, paused at the move that decided it. No puzzle sets written years ago. A pipeline watches grandmaster games as they are played, finds the single most dramatic turning point in each one, and verifies the answer with a chess engine before it ever reaches you. Then it hands you the board and asks the only question that matters: what did they play here? WHAT YOU DO Open the app and you are already in a position. No menus, no setup. Find the move, or give it up and see it. Every answer is engine-checked, so you are never arguing with a puzzle that is wrong. YOUR RATING IS REAL The Brilliancy Elo moves on every position you attempt. Solve one and it goes up. Give up, or peek at the evaluation, and it goes down, because a rating that only counts your wins is not a rating. You start at 1200 and the leaderboard ranks everyone by the same number. OPENING JOURNEYS Pick an opening and work through the key positions of it, each one taken from a real game and picked to teach one idea. The Sicilian, the King's Indian, the Ruy Lopez, and more. YOUR OWN GAMES Enter your Chess.com username and the same engine that mines grandmaster games mines yours. It finds the moments where your game actually turned, and hands them back to you as positions to solve. The mistakes you already made, as puzzles you get a second chance at. BUILT ON REAL GAMES 134,000 games and counting, from more than 1,700 grandmasters. Queen sacrifices, quiet killers, endgame precision, and comebacks from lost positions. Fresh games arrive continuously, so the feed keeps moving. WHAT THIS IS NOT There is no board to play a full game on and no opponent to beat. Brilliancy does one thing: it shows you the moment a strong player found something, and gives you the chance to find it too. Free. No account needed to start.