Chess - Play and Learn Online

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4.7
3.22M reviews
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Everyone
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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
Jun 18, 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
3.03M reviews
Silas Langenderfer
June 10, 2026
I like how this app is welcoming to new players like me, and the coach is very helpful with explaining mistakes, and the absence of advertisements. But sometimes when I do custom puzzles I make the right move but it says I got it wrong, and I also don't appreciate the meager amount of puzzles and lessons I can do before I am asked to pay for a subscription
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Chess.com
June 10, 2026
Thanks for your review! If you have more suggestions for us on how the Chess.com app could be better, please let us know. We want the app to be worthy of a 5-star rating to you! You can submit feedback at: www.chess.com/support
Darkon
June 6, 2026
Not being able turn off all volume is a deal breaker. Even with sounds "off" via settings, I still get blaring announcer voices in things like puzzles where they say at full volume "That wasn't it, want to try again?" or whatever. I listen to audiobooks in the background and this app is constantly interrupting, and there's no way to completely mute it without turning off my phone media volume, which means no audiobook playing.
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Chess.com
June 10, 2026
Please contact us and let us know more about this issue. We're here to help! You can reach our dedicated Support team here: www.chess.com/support
Aniket Siddhaye
June 9, 2026
The app itself is okay though I have experienced better elsewhere. I mostly play 1 day/move games to give time to think and work, sleep etc and it constantly matched me to players with lesser ratings. As soon as I won against opponents I would normally beat, it closed my account for their so called "fair play policy". At least, they let me keep whatever premium I had left but definitely cancelling that and this account is only for deliberately losing games because that's their definition of fair
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Chess.com
June 10, 2026
Please check your email inbox for a closure notice with an explanation about your Chess.com account status and how to proceed. If you haven't received a notice, please visit this link for help: www.chess.com/support

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!