Chess - Play and Learn Online

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.7
2.82M reviews
100M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this game

Play chess lessons online with over 230M 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
Oct 14, 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
2.66M reviews
Blue Shepard
October 22, 2025
The game overall is good. You can connect with anyone and play for almost 20 minutes. The problem? The system that declares "Draw" when one side clearly won. Is not the first time I would have 6 to 10 pieces while the other person got one piece (the king) and it will close the game instantly saying "Draw". (I got screenshots!) Either the system is not working or a lot of players, (casually always from the same couple of countries), are cheating. Cause is not normal nor fair. Please fit it! 🙏🏽
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Gavin Henseler
October 23, 2025
As of today I reached 530 days in a row on daily puzzles. Been using the app and website for many years and recommended it heavily if you are interested in improving your chess skills. I also love the bots. You can play offline and get just as good of a game as if you where online 10/10 would recommend (Edit: I have officially reached over 2 years on puzzles straight)(edit: I lost the streak after over 2 years straight. but I will restart it!!!)
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Chess.com
August 21, 2025
Absolutely legendary Puzzle streak!! Keep it up, and keep taking your chess skills to the next level on Chess.com!
Ralph Maurmeier
September 6, 2025
The game will force abandon you if you don't play fast enough to it's liking. I still had 2 minutes left on a 3|2 game. This is not the first time either. As a fellow dev, wow. I hope it was AI generated or something because I never said anything about crashing. It does it by design. I have seen it happen to my opponents too. Stop force abandoning games, we were just thinking and still had plenty of time on the clock.
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Chess.com
September 8, 2025
Sorry for the difficulties! A game ends early after disconnection so that players won't have to wait for the time to run out in case the opponent has left the game. However, it should be possible to reconnect within 10% of the initial game time. Please visit this link for assistance: 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!