Stetson Chess

Stetson Academy

The club board

Stetson Chess is the school chess club. Students sit down with classmates, with the house engine, and with lessons that teach one move at a time. Progress saves to the school account.

Students open this from the Stetson Academy portal.

Drag to turn the table · pinch to zoom

Files a–h, ranks 1–8. White at the near edge. Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom, arrows or WASD to orbit, plus and minus to zoom, F for full screen, zero to fit.

Italian Game — this table is live. Try a move.

For students

Sit down. Play. Learn the next move.

Play the house on five chairs, from Beginner through Master. Challenge a classmate in the lobby. Walk the academy. Solve tactics. Finish a tournament. Honors and gold mark the work.

For parents

A teacher in the room.

Games are with classmates or the house engine. Teachers can see class play, ratings, and the talk log.

On the table

What a sitting looks like

  • Academy

    Forty lessons. A piece lifts, a ring marks a square, you click the ring. From the first pawn through named gambits.

  • Club games

    Rated games against classmates. Elo starts at 1200. Clocks from untimed through 15 minutes.

  • Tactics

    A gym of puzzles. Forks, pins, mates. Each solve is a small gold and a step on the tactics honors.

  • Tournaments

    School events with a draw, pairings, and a champion. The winner takes the big gold.

  • Teachers

    Class view, ratings, resign rates, and a talk log.

  • Talk

    Match chat when both players have talk on.

Achievements

Bronze, silver, and gold

253 honors, in bronze, silver, and gold. A few stay Hidden. Winning honors need a close opponent: ten games, near or above your rating, or the house on Intermediate or harder.

  1. First sitting

    Play a rated game.

  2. First blood

    Win a game.

  3. Hat trick

    Win 3 in a row against a close opponent or Intermediate+.

  4. Italian

    Play the Italian Game.

  5. House middle

    Beat the house on Intermediate.

  6. First tactics

    Solve 5 tactics.

  7. First lessons

    Finish 3 academy lessons.

  8. Across the table

    Finish a club game against a person.

  9. Hidden

    The sitting that earns it.

The house

Five chairs

Play against the house. Choose a chair, a color, and a clock.

  1. Beginner

    Blunders often. Good for first games.

  2. Easy

    Short sight. Drops the occasional piece.

  3. Intermediate

    Club-level calculation.

  4. Advanced

    Looks further and punishes hanging pieces.

  5. Master

    Deepest search the house engine can run.

Gold

The purse

Wins, lessons, tactics, and honors pay gold. A tournament champion is the big prize. Too many resignations against the same classmate pauses the account until a teacher unlocks it.

Harder chairs and closer classmates pay more. The tournament champion takes the biggest purse.

Fair play

Close games count

Winning streaks, sit-outs, and gold combat tiles wait for a peer: ten games, close or higher, or Intermediate and up.

Talk

Match chat

Match chat opens when both players have talk on. Teachers can mute, hide a line, and read the talk log. The house coach, when a teacher turns it on, talks about your play.

How to open it

From the school portal

Students click Play inside Stetson Academy. That starts a school session and saves the career to their account. Families can send this page.

Questions about a student’s account go to a teacher at school.