ChessMind – Opened to the First 100 Users

Schachkicker is a well-known German-language online magazine for the chess community – with a focus on club chess, tournament reports, personalities and topics that actually matter in players' everyday lives. The fact that Schachkicker covers the ChessMind launch is therefore more than a product announcement: it signals that mental training is being taken seriously as a training discipline within the German-speaking chess scene.

The article reports on the opening of the first ChessMind cohort: 100 selected players get early access to the modular training system and actively accompany the further development of the platform. The cohort is deliberately kept small to allow intensive feedback and close support.

Selection emphasises a broad mix: ambitious club players, online players with clear tournament goals, youth coaches and a few professionals. This diversity ensures that the system is not only validated in a narrow rating range but across different training realities.

Content-wise, the article describes the planned modules of the platform: attention training, emotion regulation, routines for time pressure and time trouble, pre- and post-game work for tournament games, as well as tools against tilt and concentration drops. Schachkicker emphasises that ChessMind explicitly does not position itself as "self-help" but as a complementary training system alongside classical chess work.

A key point is the co-creation approach: the first 100 users are not just consumers but co-designers. Experiences, requests and obstacles flow directly into further development – and from there into the broader SportsMind ecosystem, whose methodology is adapted for additional sports.