NoBoard
Train your mind to play chess without a board. Master blind chess through voice commands and mental visualization.
The app for chess players who want to develop or exercise the skill of playing without looking at the board. Using voice commands, you can play complete games visualizing the board exclusively in your mind — improving your spatial memory and calculation.
Chess is a mental game.
NoBoard takes it literally.
Blind chess — playing without seeing the board — is one of the most demanding cognitive skills in chess. NoBoard makes this accessible through guided training, progressive difficulty, and voice-controlled gameplay. The board lives only in your mind.
Everything you need to train blind.
Blind Chess Mode
Play complete games without seeing the board. The engine keeps track of every position — you keep it in your mind. The ultimate blind chess challenge.
Voice Commands
Say "knight to f3" and NoBoard transcribes your command and converts it to a legal chess move. Natural language, real moves.
ELO Rating System
A real blind-chess ELO tracks your progress over time. Weekly graphs show your improvement. Every game counts.
Progressive Training Hub
Four structured training levels guide you from board coordinates to full blind simulation. Every skill is built step by step.
Real-Time Multiplayer
Challenge other players in real-time blind chess matches. WebSocket-powered lobby, waiting room, and live game engine.
Puzzles & Challenges
Mate puzzles, endgame practice, openings training, famous game replays, and curated challenge packs — all solved blind.
9+ ways to play and train.
Blind Mode Gameplay
Full games against Stockfish engine, completely blind. The star feature of NoBoard.
Classic Voice Game
Standard chess with board visible — practice your voice commands and notation.
Training Hub
4-level blind training system from coordinate recognition to full simulation.
Visualization Exercises
Focused drills to build mental board visualization capacity piece by piece.
Mate Puzzles
Solve checkmate puzzles without seeing the board. Pattern recognition at its hardest.
Endgame Practice
Master critical endgame positions through blind analysis and precise calculation.
Openings Practice
Learn and drill chess openings using only your memory and voice commands.
Famous Games
Replay legendary grandmaster games move by move — all from memory.
Online Multiplayer
Real-time blind chess matches against other NoBoard players worldwide.
The Blind Training System.
Four progressive levels build your blind chess skill from the ground up. Each level unlocks after mastering the previous.
Coordinate Training
Identify and name squares on an empty board. Build the mental grid that every blind game depends on.
Piece Movement
Track how each piece moves across the invisible board. Internalize legal moves without visual feedback.
Position Memory
Hold entire positions in your mind after a sequence of moves. Spatial memory at a chess level.
Blind Simulation
Full game simulation — engine plays, you calculate, nobody sees the board. Pure blind chess mastery.
Track every dimension of your blind chess skill.
NoBoard doesn't just let you play — it measures your growth across every meaningful metric.
- trending_upELO Rating & Weekly GraphTrack your rating trend across 7 days
- local_fire_departmentDaily StreakConsecutive days of training
- emoji_eventsWin Rate & AccuracyWin percentage and move precision
- historyFull Game HistoryEvery game in algebraic notation and FEN
- workspace_premiumAchievements & MilestonesUnlock badges as you master each skill
Privacy Policy
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