What if you had a coach with millions of games at its fingertips, the strategy of the masters, the exact truth of the strongest engine ever built, and you could just talk to it? You do.

In chess, your second is the one who prepares you, studies with you, and has your back. The best players in the world have always had one. Now you do too.

No spam. Just a note when the doors open.
Not just another AI

The AI lets you talk to it. It does not do the chess.

Large language models are wonderful at conversation and unreliable at chess: they will confidently invent a move that loses. So we let the AI do only what it is brilliant at, understanding you, explaining clearly, and talking like a real coach. It never makes the chess up.

The chess comes from Stockfish

The strongest engine ever built, the one that beats the world champion every single game. Every move, evaluation, and line your coach shows you is checked by it. Grounded, not guessed.

Talking through a real game with the coach, grounded on the board
Personal, not generic

It does not teach you chess. It teaches you your chess.

Connect your account and it reads every game you have played. It finds the patterns that are actually costing you, the bishop you keep trading off, the openings you drift in, the winning endgames you let slip, and it tracks them over time, so the lesson this week is the right one.

No rating-band platitudes. The work is yours, drawn from your own board.

A real finding from your own games, and your progress toward your goal
Three coaches, three ways to be taught

Choose the voice that gets the best out of you.

Same engine-verified truth underneath. Completely different way of teaching it.

Katya
Katya
Warm and encouraging
She scaffolds. A hard idea broken into small steps, your confidence built as your skill is.
Marek
Marek
Blunt and direct
No flattery. Deliberate practice: the honest truth about your game, then the reps until it sticks.
Dimple
Dimple
Patient and Socratic
She rarely hands you the answer. She asks the question that makes you find it yourself.
A full coaching engine

Everything a real coaching setup gives you, in one place.

Getting started: connect your account, it reads your games, finds your patterns, hands you the first fix
The coach's picks: the games from your history most worth reviewing

The coach picks your games

You do not have to guess what to study. The coach reads your whole history and surfaces the handful of games most worth reviewing this week, each with a reason in their own voice. Every game already analysed, ready to walk through.

A game review in progress, the coach narrating the board

Game reviews

Walk any game move by move. The coach narrates the quiet stretches and stops you at the moments that decided it.

A drill from one of your own games, mid-solve

Drills

Targeted puzzles pulled from your own recurring mistakes and a library of millions, so you train exactly what you get wrong.

A structured lesson with the coach, on a teaching position

Lessons

Structured teaching on any concept, from forks to king safety, scaffolded to the level you are genuinely at.

Your repertoire mapped, opening by opening

Openings

Your whole repertoire mapped: what you play, what you drift into, and the lines that keep giving you trouble.

The coach talking through a critical moment, asking what you were thinking

Live narration

The coach talks you through a game in their own voice, pointing at the board as the story unfolds.

Stockfish best-move arrow on the board

Engine-grounded

Stockfish under every claim, every arrow, every "you should have played" backed by the strongest engine alive.

The think-aloud browser extension: narrate your game and the coach reviews your reasoning
Opponent prep (on the roadmap): study your next opponent's openings and weaknesses
Play the coach (on the roadmap): it reads your strength from a few moves

It really is your second.

MySecond is a chess coach built from the best of human chess and the strongest engine ever made. And, unlike anything else, it actually knows your game.

mysecond.co.uk