Chess Online: Play & Puzzles

Play chess online in rated rapid and blitz games, train your tactics with more than 4,800 chess puzzles from real games, and learn chess step by step in 120 interactive lessons. Or play against the computer at five levels, or with two players on one phone. PLAY CHESS ONLINE WITH AN ELO RATING Pick rapid or blitz and matchmaking finds an opponent near your rating in seconds. Each mode keeps its own Elo, so a bad night of blitz never touches your rapid rating. Chat, offer a draw or resign, and if your connection drops you can rejoin the game. The leaderboard ranks everyone in rapid and blitz. CHESS PUZZLES FROM REAL GAMES Each of the 4,800+ tactics puzzles is a real position where somebody went wrong, rated from about 650 to over 2,800 and sorted into easy, medium and hard. Filter by theme: fork, pin, skewer, discovered attack, double check, deflection, sacrifice, zugzwang, back-rank mate, smothered mate, promotion, endgame and more. You play every chess puzzle out. Any legal move is allowed: follow the winning line and the opponent answers as in the real game, leave it and the engine defends. A puzzle is solved when you give checkmate or win the material, by your own route. Progress is saved to your account. DAILY PUZZLE AND STREAKS A new chess puzzle every day, always free. Build a streak, get an optional evening reminder, and save a missed day with a short video. LEARN CHESS: 6 COURSES, 120 LESSONS Interactive chess lessons where you make the moves yourself; a wrong move just asks you to try again. - Chess basics: how the pieces move, check, checkmate, castling, en passant, stalemate. Free. - Opening principles and traps, from controlling the center to Scholar's Mate and the Fried Liver. - Popular openings: Italian Game, Ruy Lopez, Sicilian, French, Caro-Kann, Queen's Gambit, London System and more. - Tactics: forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, deflection, zugzwang. - Checkmate patterns: back-rank, smothered, Arabian, Anastasia's mate and other classics. - Endgames: opposition, key squares, passed pawns, Lucena and Philidor. Many lessons end with matching puzzles to practice the idea, and an opening library lets you browse well-known chess openings. PLAY CHESS AGAINST THE COMPUTER Five levels from Beginner to Master. Choose white or black, play without a clock, and take back a move when you want a second try. 2 PLAYER CHESS ON ONE PHONE Play a friend sitting next to you on the same device, with a built-in chess clock from 1 to 60 minutes, with or without increment, or no clock at all. PLAY WITH FRIENDS Search players by name, add friends, see who is online and invite them to a game, or create a private room and share the code or an invite link. Friendly games are unrated. GAME REVIEW AND HISTORY After a game, game review shows your accuracy and marks each blunder, mistake and inaccuracy with the better move. Replay past games move by move and share them as PGN. Your profile tracks wins, draws, losses and win rate. 2D OR 3D CHESS BOARD A flat board with six color themes, eight piece sets and three piece sizes, or a 3D chess board with six board styles and seven piece finishes. YOUR ACCOUNT No sign-up needed: you get a player name on first launch. Link Google to keep your rating and progress on a new phone. Choose a username and an avatar or your own photo, block or report players, and delete your account any time. Available in 20 languages. FREE AND PRO Free to download, with ads. Free players get rated games, friends, 2 player mode, the computer up to Advanced, the daily puzzle, a few more puzzles a day (extra for a short video), the Chess basics course and the first lesson of each course. Chess Pro is an optional subscription: no ads, unlimited puzzles, hints and solutions, a review after every game, Expert and Master, every lesson. Set up the board and make your first move. Privacy Policy: https://app.dngsoft.com/chess/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://app.dngsoft.com/games/terms-of-use