Chess - Play and Learn Online

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About this game

Play chess lessons online with over 280 million 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 1,000,000+ fun 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 tactics, 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 1,000,000 + unique puzzles.
- Rated mode automatically adjusts to your skill level to help you improve your tactics.
- 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 puzzle tutorials with tips and game recommendations.
- Learn all the chess rules, tactics and strategies in a step-by-step lesson plan (opening, endgame...)

🎓 CHESS COACHING:
- Learn tactics 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 and receive 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 different tactics and 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
Play chess online with friends! Learn chess tactics, puzzles & analysis!
Updated on
Nov 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

3.3M reviews
Randy MI
July 10, 2026
The latest "user interface" update is a farce; they're shoving the "daily puzzle" down your throat whether you're interested or not. I'm not because their solution is not always the one I would employ; it's their way or its wrong. The so-called "classic" setting does not revert back to the way it was. Therefore rating dropped from 5 to 3. Actively looking for another chess app.
38 people found this review helpful
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Chess.com
July 14, 2026
Thanks for your Review! If you have suggestions for us on how the Chess.com app could be better, please let us know. You can submit feedback at: www.chess.com/support
Gazebo
June 29, 2026
Bullet chess on mobile is, outside of puzzles, pretty much the only thing I play on mobile, as I rarely have time for longer games that I couldn't spend on my computer instead. Bullet on mobile is horrible. You lose 1-3 seconds at the start of the game due to the banner that appears, showing each player. Moving pieces with the thumbs is already much harder and slower than with a mouse, and often I find pieces dropping one square before where I intended to place them. Altogether frustrating
11 people found this review helpful
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Chess.com
November 13, 2026
Sorry for the difficulties! You can disable the pre-game display, called a "Theme Showcase", in the menu: More > Settings > Board. We'll keep working on optimizations in piece selection and reactivity to help reduce misclicks in Bullet. If latency is occurring during the game, please visit this link for help: www.chess.com/support
John Motacek
May 10, 2026
idk if this app was sold to someone else or what, but they just introduced advertisements on free accounts. not to mention the changes they've made lately to the AI difficulty and puzzles. both are geared more toward making you feel like you're improving while not actually doing so cuz they're way easier. i went from rarely beating an 1800 AI before to winning every time. they make stupidly obviously blunders when theyre winning. anyway, I'll be looking for a different app to play on.
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Chess.com
May 12, 2026
Thank you for this feedback. The difficulty levels of the Bots have not changed recently, but we will investigate for any potential error. We know ads aren't ideal, but they are what allow us to keep the game free, to innovate, and to create major chess events. You can remove all ads for a very low fee! More info at: www.chess.com/membership/no-ads

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!