Chess - Play and Learn

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.7
2.74M reviews
100M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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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 3, 2025
Available on
Android, Windows
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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
2.58M reviews
Ben LaPierre
August 25, 2025
I like the app but not the timing structure. It's centered around speed chess with the only other option of extremely long games. There's no middle ground. Your only choice is to play 1 hour total time or 24 hours per move. Seems to me that these 2 options should be switched. 24 hours total time or 1 hour per move would be much better. Basically, if you don't want to play rapid chess then you have to play a game that can drag on for weeks if your opponent moves 1 piece a day.
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Chess.com
August 26, 2025
Thank you for this feedback. We're looking into the possibility of a classical chess time format such as 90|30 as a preset on the app in the future. In the meantime, you can use the custom game menu to create a game longer than one hour.
Joshua Perkins
August 26, 2025
I'm really happy with the app. I wish they had a more reasonable rate for game reviews. I finish Mayne 3 games with friends a day. charge me 15 or 20 a year for unlimited reviews. Not 50 Just downgraded the rating to 2 stars. When playing others you are forced to wait forever for the game to be abandoned. I just got kicked from a game I was 10 seconds away from wining because Verizon lost signal briefly. Do yourself a favor and don't play rapid on this app.
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Chess.com
October 18, 2024
Thank you for this feedback. We are exploring additional membership options for the future so that even more players can take advantage of our incredible training tools like game analysis. In the meantime, make sure to sign up for the free trial if you haven't already. Diamond or Platinum level get you unlimited game analysis!
Area Llemone
August 16, 2025
Tactics are easier than they used to be, with a difficulty option being added and removed for seemingly no reason. Also buggy. Edit: They re-added the difficulty option. Bumping it to 4 stars for now, premium options are still overpriced and the engine (computer analysis) is laughable compared to it's competitors such as lichess, which are free.
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Chess.com
August 21, 2025
Update! We've added a new setting to let you customize the difficulty of chess puzzles on the Chess.com app. For more challenging puzzles where you can earn more rating points, choose the "Extra hard" mode in the menu: More > Settings > Puzzles.

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!