Chess - Play and Learn Online

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4.7
3.15M reviews
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About this game

Play chess lessons online with over 250M 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
May 15, 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
2.96M reviews
Gene Ramirez
May 1, 2026
The gameplay is great, matchmaking seems solid. I've been playing for a few years and have the same complaint I've seen from others recently, I get the subscription model but constant ads makes me want to stop using the app. I've been closing out the app and reopening every time an ad comes on. I get it, you gotta make money, but I'll likely be one of the users you lose to do so.
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Chess.com
May 2, 2026
We know ads aren't ideal, but they allow us to keep the game free, to innovate, and to create major chess events. You can always remove ads by signing up for any of our Premium plans, and we also offer a No Ads Plan where you can remove all ads for just $1 a month! To sign up, visit: www.chess.com/membership/no-ads
Anna Bishop
April 25, 2026
I love this app, it's underrated!! People should learn how to play chess the right way. Although, I can't add comments to anybord/community thing, it says my "Account is not actived yet" and I don't know how to :(. Anyway beside that it's a wonderful place to learn and do chess, better than Duolingo! I cannot change my username, I waited 90 days and still I can't change it.
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Chess.com
April 29, 2026
Thank you for this feedback. You can change your username if you login to Chess.com in a web browser and visit the main settings page here: www.chess.com/settings. We plan to add this option to the app in the future!
kaine labelle
April 14, 2026
The reason for the 2 star review, isnt anything wrong with the client. Its the users, foreign or domestic. the amount of people who cheat in a game of chess is pathetic. And there is no real punishment for doing so. All they do is run the game vs a high level computer making the same moves you make in a game. And have near perfect play from starting ELO of 100, all the way up the ladder. Trying to find a casual game, is almost impossible.
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Chess.com
April 15, 2026
We take cheating extremely seriously! We have the most advanced detection methods in the world of chess, and any account found to be cheating is immediately closed. You can view our moderation stats in monthly reports like this one: www.chess.com/article/view/chesscom-update-april-2026#FairPlay

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!