Chess - Play and Learn Online

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4.7
3.09M reviews
100M+
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Content rating
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
Apr 04, 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
2.91M reviews
Z W
March 18, 2026
Good app, but puzzles need a feedback section. Some of the puzzles you can obviously accomplish the goal, but they are looking for more than the goal states and you get it wrong if moving too quickly. Also, often times the puzzles don't follow through to the end, so the goal isn't actually realized. Would be great to see improvement to the puzzles and opportunity to submit feedback on them.
3 people found this review helpful
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Chess.com
March 18, 2026
Thank you for this feedback. We'll keep working on optimizations to ensure Puzzles are useful as possible! We previously used a voting and comments option on Puzzles, and we'll look into similar options for the future.
Aden Mohasin
March 24, 2026
Great app for chess lovers, it lets you play online with friends far away. or In person even if you don't have a chess board. I love the idea of having lessons, a coach, bots and puzzles, but I don't like the idea of having a short lesson per week. I can finish those in less than 2 minutes, so I have to wait all week for another 2 minute lesson. I recommend reducing the time or increasing the amount of learning you get and the amount of time per lesson. I'd still 100% recommend this app.
1 person found this review helpful
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Chess.com
March 24, 2026
Thank you for this feedback. With a free account you can complete one video Lesson per week, but all Lessons are unlocked with any level of Premium membership. We offer a free 7-day membership trial if you'd like to try out unlimited Lessons!
John Keyes
March 23, 2026
Paid for an annual subscription and the app no longer is showing the videos to walk you through the lessons. Been back and forth with customer service. Now they wont even get back to me. Great app if you just want to play online. I do not recommend giving them a dime though. They do not deliver. Just stick with the free account. I do not plan on renewing my subscription after my experience.
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Chess.com
March 23, 2026
Sorry for the difficulties! Certain devices may not support Lesson video playback due to resolution requirements. On affected devices, the Video option will not be available, but we're working on this! In the meantime, you can try viewing the Lesson on another device or on the Chess.com website.

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!