Meet Chess Enrich: A "Homework" Platform Built by Grandmasters for Chess Learners
Every chess parent with big dreams asks the same thing: “Will you give my child regular homework?” For GM Stany G A, this question sparked an idea. He and his co-founders, GM Swayams Mishra and IM Swayangsu Satyapragyan, launched a platform called Chess Enrich to answer it. Their pitch is simple: You don’t level up in chess just by attending classes; you get better by practising consistently and with smart, coach-backed assignments.
The Coaching Pedigree Behind Chess Enrich
GM Swayams Mishra, who is India's 62nd Grandmaster, has spent the last few years quietly building one of Indian chess's more remarkable coaching resumes. He helped guide the Indian women's team to Olympiad gold in 2024, and one of his students became Britain's youngest-ever Grandmaster. His long-time friend and fellow Odisha player GM Stany G A has been on a similar track, going from age-group rival to Olympiad bronze medallist to full-time trainer of his own crop of prodigies. Together with IM Swayangsu Satyapragyan, who is a senior figure both of them grew up admiring, the two GMs have turned years of answering the same parent question over and over ("do you set homework?") into Chess Enrich, a platform built to make deliberate practice as routine as the games themselves.
Three Titled Players, One Shared Story
GM Swayams Mishra currently coaches the Indian Women’s team and was on the coaching staff for India's gold medal at the 2024 Chess Olympiad. GM Stany G A is coaching a bunch of young talents full-time. Then there’s IM Swayangsu Satyapragyan, an administrator at Prochessta, who has coached India's team at the 2025 Olympiad for People with Disabilities and helped lead students to both IM and GM titles.
The roots go back to the U9 Nationals, where Swayams and Stany faced off as kids. Later, they were teammates at Airports Authority of India. Satyapragyan was an established name when the other two were still making their mark.
“Swayams and I wanted to build this platform, but we needed someone with corporate chops who shared the vision,” Stany said. “Swayams suggested Satyapragyan, and once we pitched it, he was all in.”
There’s also a fourth, less-visible founder: Jyotiranjan Padhi, their developer and a former chess player himself. “He brought our vision to life,” Stany said. “He’s the backbone because Chess Enrich wouldn’t exist without him.”
The Missing Piece: Real Homework
Stany kept hearing it from parents: Will you assign homework? No matter the student’s level, the question came up again and again. Most chess training programs just didn’t deliver steady, coach-reviewed assignments especially for kids and ambitious players who actually want to study between lessons.
When Stany brought the idea to Swayams, he got excited because he’d seen the same need. That shared lightbulb moment was the start of Chess Enrich.
What New Users Get
Chess Enrich isn’t just another online academy. That’s important and the founders make it clear. “This is not another online academy with scheduled classes,” they say. It’s a structured homework and practice platform.
Here are some exciting features of Chess Enrich!
7-Day Free Trial: Sign up without needing a credit card.
Flexible Subscriptions: Choose between a three-month or an annual plan after the trial ends.
Guided Dashboard: Log in to a dashboard featuring a quick introductory guide on how the platform works.
Bi-Weekly Assignments: New tasks drop every Monday and Thursday, covering topics like calculation, positional play, attacking play, theoretical endgames, and studies.
Stress-Free Deadlines: Each assignment remains available for a full week, giving you a clear deadline without the pressure of fixed class timings.
You can tackle each topic in three ways:
- Best Move Quest: Solve for the best moves on the board, get instant feedback and a score.
- Coach Review: Write your analysis and lines, submit, watch a solution video, and if you’re on a paid plan, one of the three coaches gives you detailed feedback.
- Guessing Game: Watch a top-level game, predict the critical moves, and compare your ideas with what really happened.
Every session gets tracked: how many positions solved, points gained or progress made. The idea is, by the end of your first session, you’ve done more than just watched a video. You’ve directly tackled a tough position, gotten feedback, and you know what to work on next.
Who’s It For?
They built Chess Enrich with serious improvers in mind, with players rated from around 1600 to 2300 Elo. Below 1600, some assignments will be tough, but the founders say dedicated learners can power through. Above 2300? You’ll find some easier ones, but nobody’s breezing through at 100%. There’s real challenge here.
Pricing and How You Get In
The free trial lasts a week, no payment needed. They throw in free sample positions even after your trial, so you can keep trying out new features. Paid subscriptions are simple:
If you’re outside India, prices might shift a bit depending on currency rates.
Personal Feedback—No Outsourcing
Lots of platforms farm out review work to a rotating cast of titled players. Not here. For now, only the three founders give feedback on submitted analysis. They want to keep things personal and keep the quality high, especially while the community is still growing. If things get busy enough, they’ll consider bringing in another experienced IM or GM to help.
Every Monday, you get three Coach Review positions. The founders split feedback among themselves and usually respond within a couple of days, occasionally up to four if it’s a really busy week.
More Than Virtual Badges
Chess Enrich takes rewards seriously. There’s a live leaderboard with three rating categories: A, B, and C. So you’re up against people in your range. Every quarter, the top three in each group win prizes consisting of Amazon gift vouchers, longer memberships, that sort of thing. The top 25 in each group are invited to an exclusive live webinar with the founders. Plus, they host free Lichess tournaments with memberships and other goodies up for grabs.
What’s Next?
Right now, they want to make what they’ve got even better with smoother features, more training modes, and fine-tuning based on what users ask for. They’ve also got new ideas in the pipeline, but aren’t quite ready to talk about them yet.
When you ask what they hope Chess Enrich becomes, their answer is about filling the gaps. “Keep working with your coach or your club,” they say. “Chess Enrich isn’t here to replace your coach. It’s here to give you structure and advanced practice between sessions.”
Big picture? They want to be the world’s trusted chess training sidekick, the place you go to keep getting better, every single week, with pro-level guidance and a real sense of progress.
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