For ChessKid coaches
ChessKid teaches. Rook Ready runs the club.
You're already using ChessKid for the chess. Rook Ready is the layer around it — roster, attendance, rated tournaments, registration, and the parent emails — so the rest of running your program doesn't live in a spreadsheet.
Free for clubs up to 30 members. No credit card.
Two jobs, one program
Where ChessKid ends, the club begins.
ChessKid is where the kids learn — lessons, puzzles, safe play, the curriculum they work through between meetings. It's built for teaching chess, and it's good at it.
Everything around the chess is a different job: who's on the roster, who showed up Tuesday, which parents got the note about Saturday's tournament, who's registered and paid. Most programs run that on a spreadsheet and a group text. Rook Ready is the layer that replaces it.
How they fit together
Two tools, no overlap.
ChessKid handles the chess
- Lessons, puzzles, and tactics training
- Kid-safe play against other kids and bots
- Assignments and progress between meetings
- Coach dashboards and student report cards
Rook Ready handles the club
- Member roster with linked parents and guardians
- Weekly meeting attendance, marked in one click
- Online registration and season sign-up forms
- Over-the-board rated tournaments — Swiss pairings, live standings, USCF rating reports
- Announcements to the whole club, just the parents, or one event
- USCF IDs, ratings, and custom member fields
What ChessKid does is based on their public product pages. If we've got something wrong, email us and we'll fix it.
The realistic setup
Keep ChessKid. Add the club.
ChessKid for the curriculum, Rook Ready for everything around it. If you run a school program, the scholastic setup walks through how the whole thing fits together.
Scholastic setup →Try it
Run the club side of your ChessKid program free.
Free for clubs up to 30 members. No credit card. Keep ChessKid for the chess; let Rook Ready handle the club.