How Chess Wrapped works
Type your Chess.com or Lichess username, choose the site, and the tool loads your games from this year through the public Chess.com or Lichess API. Chess.com publishes every player's games month by month, and Lichess lets anyone export a player's games, so we can rebuild your whole year without a login. Nothing to sign up for, no password, nothing to install.
If you played a lot this year, loading can take a moment, because there are a lot of games to fetch. Once it's done, your year appears as a set of cards you can swipe through and share.
What's in your Wrapped
Games played
The total number of rated and casual games you finished this year, with a split by time control. It's often a surprise. A few blitz games a night adds up to a lot over twelve months.
Your best win
The win against your highest-rated opponent of the year. It's the game you'll want to show people, and a nice reminder of what you can do on a good day.
Most-played opening
The opening you reached most often, and how well it scored for you. Sometimes your favorite opening is also your best one. Sometimes it's the one you lose with most, which is worth knowing.
Best time of day
The hour of the day when your results were best. If there is a clear worst hour too, Wrapped may mention it.
Your player type
A fun label based on how you played: how many games, how fast you moved, how often you attacked, how often you came back from bad positions. It's meant to be lighthearted, not a scientific profile.
A light roast
One friendly jab, built from a real stat in your year. For a full roast, try Roast My Chess.
Turn your year in review into a plan
A year in review is fun to share, but it's also the best moment to look at your chess honestly. A year of games is a much bigger sample than a week, so the patterns are more reliable. A few questions worth asking:
- Did my rating go up? If it stayed flat across a lot of games, playing more isn't the answer. Our guide on how to break a chess rating plateau explains what to change.
- Which time control did I play most? If it's mostly bullet or blitz and you want to improve, more rapid games will help. Faster games give you less time to think and learn.
- Is my favorite opening working? If you play it a lot and it scores badly, either learn its main ideas properly or switch. These openings are a good starting point.
- When do I play badly? If your best and worst hours are far apart, the tilt detector shows the full breakdown, including what happens after a loss.
Then pick one or two goals for next year. "Stop hanging pieces" is a better goal than "get to 1500," because it's something you control every game. The rating follows. If you're not sure what to work on, the free chess weakness report names your three biggest leaks from your recent games, and how to find your chess weaknesses shows you how to check by hand. For a general roadmap, read how to get better at chess.
Chess.com year in review vs Chess Wrapped
Chess.com publishes its own year in review for members, and some Lichess players use community tools. This one works the same way for both sites, so if you play on both you can compare your two years side by side. It's built only from your public games, so the numbers are what your games show. Some stats may differ slightly from the official ones, for example in how games against bots or abandoned games are counted.
Sharing your cards
Every card can be saved as an image or shared directly. The cards show your stats and your username, nothing else, and never your opponents' names. If you play on both sites, run it twice and share the better year.
More free tools
Want to see your rating on another site? The rating converter estimates it and shows your percentile. To go through one of this year's games move by move, use the free game review. Everything else is in the guides.
If you want next year's Wrapped to look better, Chessy — AI Chess Coach app can help: it reviews every game you play, gives you puzzles from your own mistakes and builds a daily plan around what's actually costing you.