Chess - Play and Learn Online

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4.7
3M reviews
100M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this game

Play chess lessons online with over 245M 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
Feb 11, 2026
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
2.83M reviews
Emmitt Havener
February 7, 2026
It's one of the best apps for learning and playing chess. Lessons are locked to 1 per week unless you pay a somewhat pricey premium, most bots are locked, and you can play a few games with an AI coach before it pay walls you. Personally, it feels like it relies too much on making money, but it's very good nonetheless. A bug I found on mobile only is that games with coaches are completely unplayable, the game starts up, and you can see the board, but then you can't move pieces or tap anything.
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Chess.com
February 10, 2026
Thank you for this feedback. We know it's an investment, but we truly believe in the value of our training tools for players who are serious about improving their chess skills. If you'd like to test out all Chess.com has to offer, make sure to take advantage of the free trial!
Elliot
January 24, 2026
Amazing, first of all, you don't have to play in real life, so you can play friends and family far away. Also, you can customize your pieces and boards the way you want them, and there's so much customization for everything! Lastly, the membership. It's amazing, and when there's a huge sale, you can get diamond for only 50 dollars or some thing a year, and the membership is great because of playing with coach, unlimited everything, but the free versions also just as fun!
25 people found this review helpful
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Chess.com
January 27, 2026
Thank you for an incredible review. We greatly appreciate your support for Chess.com!
Ginny Macaroon
January 11, 2026
Great website and app. Online play is the best I've seen, with being paired with an even opponent. Computer opponents are amazing for all different skill levels and have personalities. They can be a little bit annoying about the subscription feature, which I don't have, which is why I'm also on another chess app that's ad free and no subscription. I still recommend this app to beginners like me.
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Chess.com
January 11, 2026
Thanks for taking the time to write a review for us! It means a lot! :)

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!