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Chess.com - Play and Learn gets 100k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Chess.com - Play and Learn by Chess.com is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
Chess.com - Play and Learn update history & changes
Last change · 141 events since 28 Oct 2009Full timeline ↓🌟iOSFeatured by Apple: “WHAT WE’RE PLAYING”📈AndroidEntered the top 10📣iOSAdded 7 ad networks📣AndroidAdded 7 ad networks🔎AndroidTop 10 for “offline games”🌟iOSFeatured by Apple: “WHAT WE’RE PLAYING”📈AndroidEntered the top 10📈iOSHit #1✏️iOSAdded hidden keywords: check✏️iOSAdded hidden keywords: divertissement🔎AndroidTop 10 for “jack d”📦iOSUpdated to version 4.10.37📦iOSUpdated to version 4.10.36🎉iOSIn-app event: Grand Chess Auto Challenge📈iOSHit #1 in 2 charts✏️AndroidDescription updated✏️AndroidDescription updated🆕AndroidFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕AndroidIts developer released another app: Gambit - Play and Learn Poker
Full timeline · 141 events
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “WHAT WE’RE PLAYING”iOStoday · AE, AR, AU, BR, CA, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, IN, IT, KR, MX, NL, PL, RU, SA, SE, TR, US, ZA
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · All Games · SE
- 📣Chess.com - Play and Learn added 7 ad networksiOS33across.com, appnexus.com, lijit.com, minutemedia.com, onetag.com, sonobi.com, yieldmo.com (the developer's app-ads.txt)
- 📣Chess.com - Play and Learn added 7 ad networksAndroid33across.com, appnexus.com, lijit.com, minutemedia.com, onetag.com, sonobi.com, yieldmo.com (the developer's app-ads.txt)
- 🔎Chess.com - Play and Learn reached Top 10 for “offline games”Android#10 in Spain search · popularity 94
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “WHAT WE’RE PLAYING”iOStoday · AE, AR, AU, CA, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, IN, IT, KR, MX, NL, PL, RU, SA, SE, TR, US, ZA
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · All Games · DE
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “VAD VI SPELAR NU”iOStoday · AE, AR, AU, CA, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, IN, IT, KR, MX, NL, PL, RU, SA, SE, TR, US, ZA
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1iOSTop Free · Board · GB
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Free · Board · AU · Top Free · Board · DE
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: checkiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “WAS WIR GERADE SPIELEN”iOStoday · AE, AR, AU, CA, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, IN, IT, KR, MX, NL, PL, RU, SA, SE, TR, ZA
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1AndroidTop Free · Board · BR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: divertissementiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🔎Chess.com - Play and Learn reached Top 10 for “jack d”Android#10 in South Korea search · popularity 96
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “PRUÉBALO AHORA”iOStoday · AE, AR, AU, CA, CO, DE, IN, IT, KR, MX, NL, SA, SE, TR, ZA
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “PRUÉBALO AHORA”iOStoday · AE, AR, AU, CA, CO, DE, IN, IT, KR, MX, NL, SA, SE, TR, ZA
- 📦Chess.com - Play and Learn updated to version 4.10.37iOS¡Hola, fans del ajedrez! La versión que estrenamos hoy mejora la calidad de la aplicación y corrige un par de errores que podrían afectar a su estabilidad. Esperamos que disfrutéis de esta nueva versión. Gracias.
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: pouvez, duolingo, lernspiele, club +1 moreiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· TW
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “PRUÉBALO AHORA”iOStoday · AE, AR, AU, CA, CO, DE, IN, KR, MX, NL, SA, SE, TR, ZA
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· 11 countries
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· US, CA, AU
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· SE
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· RU
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· NL
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· MX, CO, AR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· KR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· JP
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· IT
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· FR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· ES
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· DE
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatediOS· BR
- 📦Chess.com - Play and Learn updated to version 4.10.36iOSHi chess fans! Today's new version improves app quality, removing a couple of bugs that could cause the app to crash. We hope you enjoy it! Thank you.
- 🎉Chess.com - Play and Learn in-app event: Grand Chess Auto ChallengeiOSCHALLENGE · until 22 Nov
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: royaleiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “VAD VI SPELAR NU”iOStoday · AE, AR, CA, CO, DE, IN, IT, KR, MX, NL, SA, SE, TR, ZA
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: duolingoiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “PRUÉBALO AHORA”iOStoday · AE, AR, CA, CO, DE, IN, IT, KR, MX, NL, SA, SE, TR, ZA
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: duolingoiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1 in 2 chartsiOSTop Free · Board · AE · Top Free · Board · US
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsiOS8 screenshots (was 8) · MX, CO, AR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new iPad screenshotsiOS· KR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsiOS8 screenshots (was 8) · KR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: keywords changediOS· DE
- 📦Chess.com - Play and Learn updated to version 4.10.35iOSHi chess fans! Today's new version improves app quality, removing a couple of bugs that could cause the app to crash. We hope you enjoy it! Thank you.
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: plaiiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Chess.com - Play and Learn: now updating weeklyiOS4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1iOSTop Free · Board · CA
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: fontsiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1iOSTop Free · Strategy · IT
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new iPad screenshotsiOS· SE
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsiOS8 screenshots (was 8) · SE
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new iPad screenshotsiOS· RU
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsiOS8 screenshots (was 8) · RU
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new iPad screenshotsiOS· NL
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsiOS8 screenshots (was 8) · NL
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new iPad screenshotsiOS· 4 countries
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsiOS8 screenshots (was 8) · MX, CO, AR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new iPad screenshotsiOS· KR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsiOS8 screenshots (was 8) · KR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new iPad screenshotsiOS· IT
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsiOS8 screenshots (was 8) · IT
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new iPad screenshotsiOS· FR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsiOS7 screenshots (was 7) · FR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsiOS8 screenshots (was 8) · ES
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new iPad screenshotsiOS· DE
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsiOS8 screenshots (was 8) · DE
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new iPad screenshotsiOS· BR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsiOS8 screenshots (was 8) · BR
- 📦Chess.com - Play and Learn updated to version 4.10.34iOSHi chess fans! Today's new version improves app quality, removing a couple of bugs that could cause the app to crash. We hope you enjoy it! Thank you.
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: universityiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatedAndroid· US
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 100 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Free · All Games · BR · Top Free · All Games · TR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: stockiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: bluetoothiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1iOSTop Free · Board · DE
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1 in 2 chartsiOSTop Free · Strategy · CA · Top Free · Board · IT
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1AndroidTop Free · Board · RU
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1iOSTop Free · Strategy · AU
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 10 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Free · Board · SA · Top Free · Board · TH
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · All Games · AE
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1iOSTop Free · Board · AU
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: description updatedAndroid· US
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Board · MX
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · All Games · ES
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 10 on iPad · Top Grossing All AppsiOSRU
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: strategy, multiplayer, royals, battleiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1iOSTop Free · Strategy · US
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 100 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Free · All Games · ES · Top Free · All Games · US
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: shotguniOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 100 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Free · All Games · IT · Top Free · All Games · RU
- 📊Chess.com - Play and Learn passed 100k downloads a dayiOS7-day average, our estimate
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: theory, magic, royaleiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1iOSTop Free · Strategy · GB
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Board · NL
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: brain, fish, royale, dutchiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 10 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Grossing · Board · ES · Top Free · Board · SE
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1 in 2 chartsiOSTop Free · Strategy · DE · Top Free · Strategy · FR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new iPad screenshotsiOS· 9 countries
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsiOS8 screenshots (was 8) · 9 countries
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 10AndroidTop Grossing · Board · SE
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · All Games · MX
- 📦Chess.com - Play and Learn updated to version 4.10.33iOSHi chess fans! Today's new version improves app quality, removing a couple of bugs that could cause the app to crash. We hope you enjoy it! Thank you.
- 🆕Chess.com - Play and Learn: its developer released another app: Classic by Chess.comiOS
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 10 in 6 chartsAndroidTop Free · Board · ES · Top Grossing · Board · MX · Top Grossing · Board · NL · Top Grossing · Board · TH · +2 more
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn charting in a new country in 7 chartsAndroidSpain · Mexico · Netherlands · Sweden · +3 more
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 100 in 7 chartsAndroidTop Free · Board · MX · Top Free · All Games · NL · Top Grossing · All Games · NL · Top Free · All Games · SE · +3 more
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: pocketiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1AndroidTop Grossing · Board · KR
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · All Games · DE
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: timer, multiplayeriOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: boardiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsAndroid8 screenshots (was 8) · US
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: lessons, practiceiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Chess.com - Play and Learn updated to version 4.10.32iOSHi chess fans! Today's new version improves app quality, removing a couple of bugs that could cause the app to crash. We hope you enjoy it! Thank you.
- 🎉Chess.com - Play and Learn in-app event: Spooky Chess ChallengeiOSCHALLENGE · until 31 Oct
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: strategy, board, battleiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “TRY NOW”iOStoday · AE, AU, CA, IN, MX, SA, TR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: learning, board, strategyiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “TRY NOW”iOStoday · AE, CA, IN, MX, SA, TR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn: new screenshotsAndroid8 screenshots (was 8) · US
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn: featuring lifted it to #7 (from outside the chart)iOSEm destaque · BR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: strategy, rätsel, multiplayer, playeriOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “НАШЕ ЛЮБИМОЕ”iOStoday · AE, CA, IN, MX, RU, SA, TR
- ✏️Chess.com - Play and Learn added hidden keywords: entertainment, brainiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “TRY NOW”iOStoday · AE, CA, IN, MX, SA, TR
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1iOSTop Grossing · Board · IN
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “TRY NOW”iOStoday · AE, CA, IN, MX, SA, TR
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by Apple: “PRUÉBALO AHORA”iOStoday · AE, BR, CA, IN, MX, SA, TR
- 📈Chess.com - Play and Learn hit #1iOSTop Grossing · Board · RU
- 🆕Chess.com - Play and Learn first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidUnited Arab Emirates
- 🆕Chess.com - Play and Learn first spotted by AppInsideriOS#4 in Top Free · Strategy · Canada
- 🌟Chess.com - Play and Learn featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, CA, IN, SA
- 📦Chess.com - Play and Learn version 4.10.31iOSNo release notes
- 🎉Chess.com - Play and Learn in-app event: Back to School Bot ChallengeiOSCHALLENGE · until 30 Sep
- 🆕Chess.com - Play and Learn: its developer released another app: Gambit - Play and Learn PokeriOS
- 🆕Chess.com - Play and Learn: its developer released another app: Gambit - Play and Learn PokerAndroid
- 🆕Chess.com - Play and Learn released on Google PlayAndroid
- 🆕Chess.com - Play and Learn released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.6 ★
4.4M ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#1
App Store · 
Games › Strategy Free
Games › Strategy FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
40.1k
▲ +45% vs the 2 weeks before (App Store)
Measured
Chess.com - Play and Learn at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A comprehensive chess platform offering online multiplayer, puzzles, lessons, and AI opponents for players of all skill levels. The app holds the #1 position in Strategy Free charts across major markets including the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Australia, and Russia, indicating dominant market share in its category.
Similar apps: Lichess, Chess24, Stockfish
Board Game Realistic Abstract medium sessions multiplayer IAP Subscription
#chess #strategy #puzzle #online #competitive #educational
App Store
App details
App ID
329218549
Publisher
Chess.com, LLC
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Oct 2009
17 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
52
AF SQ AR HY EU BE BN BS BG CA HR CS …
Size
478 MB
Also listed in
Strategy, Board, Entertainment
App privacy Measured
Chess.com - Play and Learn’s App Store privacy label declares 2 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 2 linked to your identity and 4 collected anonymously.
Used to track you
2
Linked to you
2
Not linked to you
4
Tracks you via
BBrowsing HistoryUUsage Data
Linked to your identity
CContact InfoIIdentifiers
Not linked to you
BBrowsing History+3 more
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.chess
Publisher
Chess.Com, LLC
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Everyone
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v4.10.25-googleplay, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Trackers
12
Permissions
30
Trackers
Full permission listProSee plans
Chess.com - Play and Learn downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 100k+ | 100M+ |
| Google Play | 100k+ | 100M+ Measured |
| Total | 100k+ Confidence | 100M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where Chess.com - Play and Learn's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: Subscription-led
How Chess.com - Play and Learn makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds · 14 ad networks
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Diamond Membership subscription | |
| 2 | Diamond Membership subscription | |
| 3 | Platinum Membership subscription | |
| 4 | Platinum Membership subscription | |
| 5 | Gold Membership subscription | |
| 6 | Gold Membership subscription | |
| 7 | Diamond Membership subscription | |
| 8 | Diamond Membership subscription | |
| 9 | Platinum Membership subscription | |
| 10 | Gold Membership subscription |
Hidden keywords
Chess.com - Play and Learn shows up in App Store search (US) for 2 words that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field.
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #1 Games › Strategy Free | 26 of 30 countries | #1 | #7 |
| Google Play | #1 Games › Board Free | 22 of 23 countries | #2 | #6 |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisApp Store
New ratings a week
21.7k
▲ +45% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
25+
US App Store (Apple shows only the newest)
Recent ratings
4.8★
vs 4.8★ lifetime
Recent written reviews
4.1★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
93/100
top 1% of Games apps
Growing fastest in Germany ▲ +75% · United States ▲ +51% · 
Canada ▲ +50%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8,874 | 48% | ▲ +51% |
 United Kingdom | 1,602 | 9% | ▲ +39% |
| Germany | 1,537 | 8% | ▲ +75% |
 India | 1,228 | 7% | steady |
 France | 1,115 | 6% | ▲ +27% |
| Canada | 1,030 | 6% | ▲ +50% |
 Brazil | 661 | 4% | ▲ +37% |
 Australia | 608 | 3% | ▲ +43% |
 Mexico | 493 | 3% | ▲ +34% |
 Turkey | 476 | 3% | ▲ +29% |
 Spain | 421 | 2% | ▲ +37% |
 Poland | 373 | 2% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Google Play
New ratings a week
18.4k
▲ +32% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
212
Google Play
Recent ratings
5.0★
vs 4.7★ lifetime
Recent written reviews
4.1★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
93/100
top 1% of Game board apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.8 ★ | 874k |
| Google Play | 4.6 ★ | 3.5M 47k written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.6 ★ weighted by ratings | 4.4M |
What users say about Chess.com - Play and Learn
From the 200 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users praise the game's educational value and fun factor but heavily criticize aggressive monetization, limited free features, and perceived cheating. Recent updates have caused significant backlash regarding UI changes, bugs, and account bans.
Mostly positive (75% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and good value. The main complaints are about recent updates, and login and account problems.
What people like
- Fun: “It’s so fun you should try”
- Price & subscription: “I pay monthly and it’s worth every cent”
- Features & content: “I’m at intermediate level”
- Ads: “to many ads Without the membership”
Common complaints
- Updates: “Cornier by the app update”
- Login & account: “They close accounts for no reason”
- Ads: “They only care about adding ads to your games and having a broken elo system”
- Price & subscription: “I pay over $200 per year for chess.com diamond membership”
About Chess.com - Play and Learn
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+ 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 1,000,000 + 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 creat
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+ 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 1,000,000 + 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 creat
Chess.com - Play and Learn App Store
Chess.com - Play and Learn gets 100k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Chess.com - Play and Learn is #1 in Games › Strategy Free in United States and charting in 26 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperChess.com
CategoryGames
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.8 (874k)
Version4.10.37
Age rating4+
First seen by us 24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100M+ worldwide
Rating
4.8 ★
874k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#1
Games › Strategy FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
21.7k
▲ +45% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Chess.com - Play and Learn at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A comprehensive chess platform offering online multiplayer, puzzles, lessons, and AI opponents for players of all skill levels. The app holds the #1 position in Strategy Free charts across major markets including the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Australia, and Russia, indicating dominant market share in its category.
Similar apps: Lichess, Chess24, Stockfish
Board Game Realistic Abstract medium sessions multiplayer IAP Subscription
#chess #strategy #puzzle #online #competitive #educational
Chess.com - Play and Learn on the App Store
App details
App ID
329218549
Publisher
Chess.com, LLC
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Oct 2009
17 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
52
AF SQ AR HY EU BE BN BS BG CA HR CS …
Size
478 MB
Also listed in
Strategy, Board, Entertainment
App privacy Measured
Chess.com - Play and Learn’s App Store privacy label declares 2 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 2 linked to your identity and 4 collected anonymously.
Used to track you
2
Linked to you
2
Not linked to you
4
Tracks you via
BBrowsing HistoryUUsage Data
Linked to your identity
CContact InfoIIdentifiers
Not linked to you
BBrowsing History+3 more
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Chess.com - Play and Learn downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Chess.com - Play and Learn's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Chess.com - Play and Learn before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Top Grossing positions in every country we track, converted to dollars per store and country, sized by each market's published consumer spend and calibrated on revenue companies publish.
Business model: Subscription-led
How Chess.com - Play and Learn makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds · 14 ad networks
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Diamond Membership subscription | |
| 2 | Diamond Membership subscription | |
| 3 | Platinum Membership subscription | |
| 4 | Platinum Membership subscription | |
| 5 | Gold Membership subscription | |
| 6 | Gold Membership subscription | |
| 7 | Diamond Membership subscription | |
| 8 | Diamond Membership subscription | |
| 9 | Platinum Membership subscription | |
| 10 | Gold Membership subscription |
Hidden keywords
Chess.com - Play and Learn shows up in App Store search (US) for 2 words that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
Italy
South Korea
Russia
Sweden
Netherlands
Japan
Argentina
ColombiaApps near Chess.com - Play and Learn on the chart
Games › Strategy Free, around #1.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.8 ★
874k ratings
Measured
Ratings
874k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
21.7k
▲ +45% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
25+
US App Store (Apple shows only the newest)
Recent ratings
4.8★
vs 4.8★ lifetime
Recent written reviews
4.1★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
93/100
top 1% of Games apps
Growing fastest in Germany ▲ +75% · United States ▲ +51% · Canada ▲ +50%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8,874 | 48% | ▲ +51% |
| United Kingdom | 1,602 | 9% | ▲ +39% |
| Germany | 1,537 | 8% | ▲ +75% |
| India | 1,228 | 7% | steady |
| France | 1,115 | 6% | ▲ +27% |
| Canada | 1,030 | 6% | ▲ +50% |
| Brazil | 661 | 4% | ▲ +37% |
| Australia | 608 | 3% | ▲ +43% |
| Mexico | 493 | 3% | ▲ +34% |
| Turkey | 476 | 3% | ▲ +29% |
| Spain | 421 | 2% | ▲ +37% |
| Poland | 373 | 2% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Chess.com - Play and Learn
From the 200 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users praise the game's educational value and fun factor but heavily criticize aggressive monetization, limited free features, and perceived cheating. Recent updates have caused significant backlash regarding UI changes, bugs, and account bans.
Mostly positive (75% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and good value. The main complaints are about recent updates, and login and account problems.
What people like
- Fun: “It’s so fun you should try”
- Price & subscription: “I pay monthly and it’s worth every cent”
- Features & content: “I’m at intermediate level”
- Ads: “to many ads Without the membership”
Common complaints
- Updates: “Cornier by the app update”
- Login & account: “They close accounts for no reason”
- Ads: “They only care about adding ads to your games and having a broken elo system”
- Price & subscription: “I pay over $200 per year for chess.com diamond membership”
About Chess.com - Play and Learn
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+ 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 1,000,000 + 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 creat
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+ 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 1,000,000 + 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 creat
Latest updates
4.10.37
¡Hola, fans del ajedrez! La versión que estrenamos hoy mejora la calidad de la aplicación y corrige un par de errores que podrían afectar a su estabilidad. Esperamos que disfrutéis de esta nueva versión. Gracias.
4.10.36
Hi chess fans! Today's new version improves app quality, removing a couple of bugs that could cause the app to crash. We hope you enjoy it! Thank you.
4.10.35
Hi chess fans! Today's new version improves app quality, removing a couple of bugs that could cause the app to crash. We hope you enjoy it! Thank you.
Store changes
What Chess.com - Play and Learn changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
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Chess - Play and Learn Online Android
Chess - Play and Learn Online gets 100k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Chess - Play and Learn Online is #2 in Games › Board Free on Google Play in United States and charting in 22 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperChess.com
CategoryGames › Board
PriceFree
Released
Installs100M+
Rating★ 4.6 (3.5M)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
Rating
4.6 ★
3.5M ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#2
Games › Board FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
18.4k
▲ +32% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Chess - Play and Learn Online at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A free, comprehensive chess platform offering online multiplayer, puzzles, lessons, and AI opponents for players of all skill levels. The app dominates the board game category in Australia and Germany while maintaining top-three positions across major European and North American markets.
Similar apps: Lichess, Chess24, Play Magnus
Board Game Realistic Abstract medium sessions multiplayer IAP Subscription
#chess #strategy #puzzles #online #educational #competitive
Chess - Play and Learn Online on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.chess
Publisher
Chess.Com, LLC
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Everyone
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v4.10.25-googleplay, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Trackers
12
Permissions
30
Trackers
Full permission listProSee plans
Chess - Play and Learn Online downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Chess - Play and Learn Online's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Chess - Play and Learn Online before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Top Grossing positions in every country we track, converted to dollars per store and country, sized by each market's published consumer spend and calibrated on revenue companies publish.
Business model: Subscription-led
How Chess - Play and Learn Online makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds · 14 ad networks
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Diamond Membership subscription | |
| 2 | Diamond Membership subscription | |
| 3 | Platinum Membership subscription | |
| 4 | Platinum Membership subscription | |
| 5 | Gold Membership subscription | |
| 6 | Gold Membership subscription | |
| 7 | Diamond Membership subscription | |
| 8 | Diamond Membership subscription | |
| 9 | Platinum Membership subscription | |
| 10 | Gold Membership subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
Apps near Chess - Play and Learn Online on the chart
Games › Board Free, around #2.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
3.5M ratings
Measured
Ratings
3.5M
Measured
Written reviews
47k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
18.4k
▲ +32% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
212
Google Play
Recent ratings
5.0★
vs 4.7★ lifetime
Recent written reviews
4.1★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
93/100
top 1% of Game board apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Chess - Play and Learn Online
From the 200 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users praise the app for its educational value, variety of bots, and community features, often calling it the best chess platform. However, significant complaints focus on aggressive monetization, including paywalled learning tools and intrusive ads, alongside persistent issues with cheating and unfair bans.
Mostly positive (75% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and good value. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and ads. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Fun: “sooooo fun play with levy”
- Price & subscription: “Really good but won't subscribe”
- Features & content: “w game, great teaching tools and stuff”
- Crashes & bugs: “Great way to play chess no bugs lots of fun”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “why is everything payed even game review”
- Ads: “At least take the ad money and invest it into anti cheater algorithms”
- Login & account: “my account got disabled for no reason ?”
- Customer support: “Support team is useless and refuses to fix anything and then wonder why chess is dying”
About Chess - Play and Learn Online
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.C
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!
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ABOUT CHESS.C
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!
* 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!
Store changes
What Chess - Play and Learn Online changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated
Description updated
New screenshots
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