What Is The Best Free Chess App?

Play chess online with millions of players around the world! Enjoy free unlimited games and improve your chess rating with 50,000+ tactics puzzles, interactive lessons and videos, and a powerful computer opponent. Unlock your inner chess master today!

PLAY CHESS ONLINE
- Challenge your friends and chat with opponents
- Play real-time blitz or daily correspondence chess

TACTICS PUZZLES
- Solve more than 65,000 puzzles
- Adjusts to your skill level to help you improve

LESSONS
- Thousands of videos and interactive lessons from top Grandmasters
- Interactive tutorials with helpful tips and highlights

COMPUTER
- Adjust the computer's strength
- Analyze your game to learn what went wrong

… AND MORE
- Daily articles by top authors and coaches like IM Jeremy Silman
- Opening explorer helps you learn and play the right openings
- Make friends & send messages
- 20+ gorgeous themes for boards, pieces, and backgrounds
- Detailed performance stats and ratings
- Active community forum

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Also available in the app:

Gold Membership
More Puzzles, Lessons and Tournaments! No ads.
1 month: $4.99 USD
1 year: $29.99 USD

Platinum Membership
Full access to Tactics, Tournaments, and more! No ads.
1 month: $6.99 USD
1 year: $49.99 USD

Diamond Membership
Unlimited access to all features for playing, training and learning. No ads.
1 month: $14.99 USD
1 year: $99.99 USD

** TERMS & DETAILS **

Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase.

Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.

Account will be charged the same amount for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period.

You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase.

Any unused portion of a Free Trial, if offered, is forfeited when you buy a subscription.

* Prices may vary by location.

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ABOUT US
This app is built by players and enthusiasts who really love chess!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chess
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chesscom
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/wwwchesscom
TwitchTV: https://www.twitch.com/chess

What's New

Dec 3, 2021

Version 3.9.26 (3)

Hey, chess-lovers! Today's new version includes access to Insights: Learn about yourself as a player by exploring a wide variety of metrics consolidated from all of your analyzed games! Learn what pieces you play least accurately - and what time of day you play best! Ever wonder how many knight forks you miss? You can find that out too! Check out your Insights today - on the menu under Stats. And remember, it gets better the more you play!

This update also brings some bug-fixes, including an issue that prevented Offline mode from working. Sorry about that!

We hope you love this new version! If so, please consider helping us out with a fresh five-star rating or review in the App Store. We really appreciate it!

Thank you - and enjoy your chess!

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5

257.7K Ratings

Checkmate!

I've been using this Chess app for about three or four years. It has a lot of additional features like tactics puzzles, videos, and preset predicaments to challenge you and help you set up future moves to create the best situation for your pieces. There is also a play-by-play review of your games which critiques your moves and tells you what you could've done better. A couple things that need improvement though. Often the app will fail to notify me when it's my turn after my opponent has moved, requiring me to open the app and navigate to my active games to manually check if it is my turn. The other issue is that sometimes I will try to start a new game with a friend with the "Play A Friend" option and the app opens the "active connection countdown" when I'm not trying to play a live game. I'm sure there is a way to create a new game with a friend without creating an active challenge, but I am not sure how. If this feature exists, it just needs to be integrated in an easy to find menu. (This review is based on my use from a Samsung Galaxy S5).

EDIT: I have an iPhone X now and I am able to successfully use the "Play A Friend" option to create a daily game without the app opening the "Active Connection Countdown" so the issue I stated previously may already be resolved.

Lots of features but not able to give feedback

Hi there, been playing on the app for about a month and started to really like it so looked at the memberships and there's 3 levels ... $30, $50, and $80 (I believe) for a year, provided you pay upfront and not month by month. I was like ok I get it... there's lots of features so you have to pay for more of them. Well that's all good, I get that.

My main issue is with the puzzles that sometimes the "opponent" player doesn't make the best move so you can't actually solve the puzzle correctly unless you guess they will do the wrong thing. Solved a puzzle today and I would've gotten it right however the opponent made the worse move of their two moves and thereby I made the wrong move because I predicted the opponent would obviously make the best move. Please creators/admins fix this issue. It's really not the way the puzzles should function. If you fix this I will gladly change my rating to 5 stars since that's my main issues. Also I couldn't find anywhere in the app to report this.

But secondly to advertise their "videos" to watch to learn and improve in a notification or have it ever present on the main menu is really annoying when you can't even watch the whole video because you don't have the most expensive membership. I don't like that. Just an annoying paywall situation where I already paid for the app.

BEST CHESS EVER!!!!

I had started playing chess around three years ago, but stopped playing after a while because me sister wouldn't have time for it anymore. I also didn't know all the weird stuff or the stuff that is secluded, like castling, stalemate and the difference between check and checkmate. And so I gave up on chess. But three years later, in 7th grade we had a chess tournament in our contest math class. I was very unpleased and upset to have found out that I lost in the second round! I watched the finals match, and watched one of my good friends get bashed and checkmated in around five to six maybe seven minutes. At that moment, I wanted to be like that guy who defeated my friend so badly. So I started forcing my sister to play chess with me. But however at one point she got tired of it. So then I had to find a good chess app or website to play on. After lots of asking people what the best chess apps are, I finally got this one!!! And I must say I love it! There is however, a minor issue. I found out there is now multiplayer! The other player must have an account and you have to invite them. Anyway, other than that, it's all cool!!!

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Information

Seller

Chess.com, LLC

Size

176.3 MB

Category

Games

Compatibility

iPhone: Requires iOS 11.0 or later.

iPad: Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.

iPod touch: Requires iOS 11.0 or later.

Mac: Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip.

Languages

English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Singhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese

Age Rating

Copyright

Price

Free

In-App Purchases

Gold Membership $4.99
Diamond Membership $14.99
Platinum Membership $6.99
Diamond Membership $99.99
Gold Membership $29.99
Platinum Membership $49.99

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Supports

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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