Welcome to Helpmate Analyzer!

Helpmate Analyzer is a tool for chess composers and judges. In the Analyzer, you can specify the position and stipulation of a helpmate problem, and the program will analyze the problem and provide information on its thematic content, effects of departure / arrival of individual moves, and other features.

A helpmate is a type of chess problem in which both sides cooperate in order to achieve the goal of checkmating Black. Read more on Wikipedia.

Examples of helpmates for beginners

See also

• Chess OCR - an online tool for chess diagram recognition
• Glossary of helpmate themes and terms
• How to describe twins

✨ Latest News

Improved Chess Diagram Recognition

• More advanced Chess OCR service is used
• Images can include multiple chessboards
• Various options for uploading images: file selection, camera, drag & drop, copy & paste
• Ctrl+V pasting works directly, without opening the OCR tab

Latest Programmed Themes

• WCCT-12 theme
• Sabra 28 theme
• Azemmour 11 theme
• Festina lente
• Unblocking sacrifice
• Square-clearance by capture
• Uncastling
• Segenreich theme
• Anti-Levman mate
• Somov mate
• Choice of move order

Chess problem databases

• Chess Problem Database Server (PDB) by Schwalbe, German Chess Problem Society
• Yet Another Chess Problem DataBase (YACPDB) by Dmitry Turevsky

Books about helpmates (PDF)

• Chris Feather, Black to Play (F. Chlubna, Vienna, 1994, correction 2012)
• Hilmar Ebert, Hans Gruber, Top Helpmates, 1995
• Hilmar Ebert, Hans Gruber, Early Helpmates, 2001