Chess - Play and Learn Online

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.8
2.78M reviews
100M+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this game

Play chess lessons online with over 200M players from around the world!

Chess is known as the best strategy board game in the world!

Enjoy unlimited 3D offline pocket chess games and improve your chess rating with 500,000+ puzzles, more than 20 million chess games a day, lessons, and over 100 powerful bot opponents. Unlock your inner chess master today!

♟ PLAY CHESS ONLINE:
- 2 Player online chess mode is entirely free to enjoy with your friends.
- Join tournaments with players online or friends and become a master.
- Play games in real-time from one minute per game to 30 minutes or longer with friends.
- Review your strategy and game lessons and lay out daily correspondence in online chess.
- Play exciting chess variants in our app: chess960 (Fischer-Random), blitz chess, puzzle rush, bullet chess, puzzle battle, or blindfold.

🧩 CHESS PUZZLES:
- Enjoy 500,000 + unique puzzles.
- Rated mode automatically adjusts to your skill level to help you improve.
- Race the clock with a timer to beat your high score in Puzzle Rush.
- Practice puzzles with specific themes in this strategy board game (checkmate in 1, in 2, in 3, blindfold, endgames, fork, skewer, sacrifice, timer, etc.)

📚 CHESS LESSONS:
- Hundreds of quality chess lessons and online videos made by masters (Learn and practice your skills with chess problems)
- Interactive puzzles tutorials with tips and game recommendations.
- Learn all the chess rules and strategies in a step-by-step lesson plan (opening, endgame...)

🎓 CHESS COACHING:
- Learn from helpful and immersive visual chess coach lessons.
- Review your games with the coach and learn the strategy of the board game for every move.
- Play games with the coach, who will guide you through the fundamentals move by move and provide helpful hints as you play.

📟 PLAY CHESS ONLINE AGAINST THE COMPUTER:
- Choose the level of computer opponent you want to play and set a timer.
- Analyze your chess games offline and learn to see where you went wrong and how you can improve.

🏰 CHESS COMMUNITY:
- Join a community of more than 200M online chess players. Find friends!
- More than 20M games played each day.
- Compete to get your own rating and try to join the best player online chess leaderboards against other players.
- Watch the most popular superstars: Hikaru, GothamChess, or Magnus!

✅ ... and MUCH MORE:
- Play chess games offline against the computer and the clock with a timer.
- Articles by the best coaches and masters.
- Explore openings like Queen´s Gambit or Sicilian Defense.
- Challenge and play with your friends in an online chess game.
- Choose from 20+ board themes and 3D pieces.
- Get in-depth performance stats about your games, puzzles, and lessons.

🎖 Playing pocket chess online has never been so easy!
Chess.com is the place to play chess games online with your friends and other players!

Share your suggestions and comments. Our support team is happy to help you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year!

ABOUT CHESS.COM:
Chess.com was created by chess players and people who love ❤️ chess!
Team: http://www.chess.com/about
Updated on
Sep 25, 2025
Available on
Android, Windows

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.7
2.62M reviews
Ryan McKenna
September 21, 2025
5* for the free app, 1* for the paid plan not worth the money!! bots are fun to play and a wide variety. the game reviews tell you what you did wrong, not what you can do better. it will suggest "better" moves that make no sense to a newbie like me. I've showed examples to experienced chess players who have been perplexed. what's the point of the review if it's giving bad examples! the Learning section is useless too, you can't review the moves it shows..can't see it once and learn it lol
3 people found this review helpful
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Chess.com
September 30, 2025
Thank you for this feedback. Game Review is powered by the strongest chess computers in the world! We're working to ensure Coach explanations are as precise and easy to understand as possible. For any critical move, you can tap on the magnifying glass icon to view how the game would continue with best moves from both sides.
John P
August 31, 2025
it's generally a good app and you can get games very quickly. however I'm so frustrated at their connectivity code, which often decides that I don't have connection mid-game when I can clearly see that I do. I've lost several games in this way. Update: removed another star as the connection problem is getting even worse. just lost connection mid-game with plenty of both WiFi and 4g signal. Unbelievably bad for a chess app.
6 people found this review helpful
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Chess.com
July 22, 2025
Sorry for the difficulties! We are working on major server expansions to continue to optimize connectivity for our players around the world. In the meantime, if the problem persists after verifying your network connection, please visit this link for further assistance: www.chess.com/support
Abhinav Jaiswal
September 21, 2025
I'll love it more, if it was completely free. in the newer update i am facing some sound glitches on moves. Another problem is that, the mobile app version don't have chaturanga, kings of hills, four-player chess... And also, my friend got achievement for these game for playing but I don't get any even though I have played it many a times on website.. please fix this
27 people found this review helpful
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Chess.com
August 31, 2025
Thanks for your review. We believe our training services are worth the cost since players can make great improvements in their game. You can test these features with a free 7-day trial! Basic members still can access 3 puzzles, one lesson per week and one game report per day among other features, including ChessTV! Games will always be free. :)

What’s new

Hey, chess-lovers! This new version brings improvements and fixes throughout the app - and some great new features too!

* Level up your Puzzle practice by earning points for every correct move. Keep solving to advance and earn new scoring bonuses!
* Game Review now estimates your rating in that match - and shows how well you played at each stage of the game!
* In Daily Chess, you can now "program" moves to be triggered automatically when your opponent makes a move you expected!

Thank you!