New Blindfold Journey: a 20-step Duolingo-style path that takes you from seeing the full board to playing fully blindfolded. The first steps are free, the full path is included with Pro. Coach tip on diagonal training: a quick math trick to spot whether two squares share a diagonal in seconds. Lichess voice mode: fixed a loop that kept repeating "illegal move" after every utterance. Voice play is now smoother and quieter. iPad on Mac: fixed a modal that could get stuck off screen. Plus smaller polish and stability fixes.

Improve "speak to play" model

Two big additions in this release: Journey A research-backed roadmap that takes you from your first blindfold game all the way to playing without seeing the board at all. Track your progress through structured levels and unlock new training modes as you improve. Voice play Play full games hands-free. Speak your moves naturally ("Knight f3", "e4", "queen takes d5") and the AI plays back. On-device speech recognition (no audio leaves your phone unless you opt in to help us improve), with support for English, French, Spanish, German, Hindi and Portuguese. Plus dozens of polish fixes around the board, settings, and game history.

• Better puzzle difficulty matching for blindfold puzzles • Puzzle rating now syncs between device and leaderboard • Fixed top safe area on the home screen • Improved handling of Google Play pending purchases • Various bug fixes and stability improvements

New Challenge Board - The blindfold training journey has been completely redesigned! The old 8-stage linear path is replaced by an interactive challenge board with clear targets and star badges tracking your progress. Improved Puzzles - Mate puzzles now accept all valid checkmates, not just one specific solution. - Visualization exercises now allow 5 free pre-moves (up from 3). Better Maze Training - Bishop and Knight maze exercises have improved move validation for a smoother experience. UI Improvements - Progress targets are now visible directly on star badges. - Various polish across navigation, icons, and translations.

Bug fixes and improvements: - Fixed timer and memory cleanup in exercises - Translated all game results and network status messages - Fixed paywall not showing when tapping locked difficulties - Improved offline sync reliability

3 new exercises: Blind Puzzle Moves, Position Reconstruction, Visualization Puzzles • New languages: Portuguese and Hindi support • Leaderboards added to exercises with speedrun scoring • Chess keyboard input for exercises • Board orientation selection (play as White or Black) • Piece icons in move notation • Various bug fixes and code cleanup

- add possibility to play offline - fix profile detail page

11 new achievements to reward your progress in every exercise type: Knight, Bishop, Attack Detection, Memory, Mazes, Diagonals, Quadrants, Famous Games, Endgames and more!

• Fixed avatar display in exercise leaderboards • Fixed avatar display on public profiles • App version now shows correctly in settings • Bug fixes and performance improvements