Chess Course Price and Refund Tracker

This tracker shows the list price, any sale price and the published refund terms for each course in our catalogue, with the date each was last read from the seller's page. As of 8 November 2026 it covers 205 listings from six sources, and every row was last checked on that date. Confirm any price on the seller's page before paying.

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What is in the table

Each row is one course or plan, read from the seller's own page, with these columns: course, seller, billing type, list price and currency, sale price, refund terms, a link to the seller's page and the date checked. You can sort by any column and filter by seller, currency, billing type, and whether a sale price is showing.

Counts and currencies are as of 8 November 2026. The tracker does not convert currencies, so compare euro and dollar rows only after converting them yourself.

Sellers not included

The catalogue excludes sellers whose prices we could not confirm on their own pages, for now: TheChessWorld, Udemy, Chessly and Remote Chess Academy. Their absence says nothing about price or quality. We could not open some of their pages, and for others the price was not visible in the text we could read. We add a seller when we can read a price on its own page. We also read only part of some sellers' shops. The ChessBase category page, for example, reported 298 results when we read it, and the catalogue holds 141 ChessBase rows.

How to read the prices

Check what a price buys before comparing it.

• ChessMood. The $948 on each course row is the Essential annual plan, which ChessMood lists as covering all current and upcoming courses. It is not what one course costs. Standalone prices we read were WhiteMood Openings $250, BlunderProof $300, Must-Know Endgame Theory U2000 $350 and Tactic Ninja $600. The pages we read do not say how long standalone access lasts. The ChessMood pricing page is the source to confirm.
• Chessable. The base price buys the interactive course; full video is a higher price. For example, The Woodpecker Method showed $39.99 for the base course (sale price $29.99) and $199.98 with video. In the 25 Chessable rows that list both, the video price is at least three times the base price (calculated from the listed figures).
• Sale versus list. On 8 November 2026, three of the 28 Chessable rows showed a sale price, about 25%, 40% and 40% below list (calculated). Sales are time-limited and we have no earlier snapshot, so we cannot say how often prices fall. See the note on price history below.
• Price history. This is the first snapshot. The tracker shows no history yet and will not imply any. When we re-read prices, earlier values will be kept so a change can be shown with dates.

Refund terms in the catalogue

Refund terms vary in length and start point, and for Chessable we could not read the seller's own terms page. The table summarises what the catalogue records.

A guarantee is only useful if you know its start date and scope, so note both when you buy. Our guide to chess courses with a money-back guarantee goes through the differences.

Limits

The tracker reports what pages state. It does not report discounts, coupons or regional prices that appear at checkout, and a price read on 8 November 2026 may have changed. It says nothing about quality. A cheaper course is not a better or worse one. Use the price-per-hour calculator to compare cost against listed hours, the subscription break-even calculator for plans, the course finder to filter by rating and goal, and the repertoire mapper for openings. See the tools hub for the rest, and how we review for the standards behind the dates.