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Club Captain (~1500)

Club Stockfish bot on the Chessility ladder. Will fork your royalty, then explain the metaphor.

Club Captain

Win 3 times to unlock the next bot — or to mark Club Captain green on the opponents page if you are already at the top.

How they play

Club Captain (~1500) will fork your royalty, then explain the metaphor. Pins, skewers, and loose pieces are its language.

It calculates short tactics more reliably than the earlier bots. Quiet blunders still happen, but they are rarer.

How to beat them

  • Before every move, ask whether your king and queen share a knight-fork square. If they do, move one of them.
  • Trade when you are up material. Club Captain is more dangerous in a messy middlegame than in a clean extra-pawn ending.
  • Three wins unlock The Annotator. Use a hint when you are stuck — then try to name the tactic it showed.

Watch for

Pins on the queen behind a knight, and discovered attacks after a pawn capture.

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