Best Chess Games to Play Online

By Purva Raut

Chess is an abstract strategy board game that’s played between 2 players. It’s a simple yet complicated game. While some elements of the game can be pretty easy others can ...Read More

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Chess

Chess (by AI Factory Limited) is free and one of the best chess games apps on the Google Play Store right now. It has a rating of 4.3 stars with over 1.6 million downloads making it one of the best chess games for android. Its 12 difficulty levels, casual and pro game modes and a chess tutor make it a good app for beginners to start their journey. You can play online with your friends or play offline with a CPU or another person sitting across you. The game also provides an ELO rating based on your results against the CPU in pro mode.

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Play Magnus

This chess game simulates the play style of Magnus Carlsen, the world chess champion as well as his grandmaster friends like Wesley So and Judit Polgar. Instead of having difficulty levels, the game lets you play against them at various ages, so you know how they think and how they react to different moves. Play Magnus can also help you learn chess thanks to features like in-game hints, undo moves and the Magnometer tool which analyses your moves making it one of the best chess apps for beginners. The app even lets you connect with your friends, so you can check how well your friends are doing.

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Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)

If you don’t have the time to play entire chess games then Chess Tactics Pro is one of the best chess games for you. Instead of putting you into a fresh game of chess, it puts you in an ongoing game and gives you some objectives that you need to complete. You can either play one of the numerous chess puzzles offline or get some new daily chess puzzles. As you play, the game analyses your ELO ratings and gives you a game according to your rating in progress mode.

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Shredder Chess

What makes Shredder Chess, one of the top chess games online is its ability to simulate Shredder, the legendary chess program. The game has over 1000 built-in chess puzzles, a coach that shows your mistakes, the ability to save and load games and the ability to share memorable games with your friends or family through email. The game adjusts its difficulty level based on your previous games and is equipped with different playing styles ranging from passive to aggressive. The intuitive and easy to operate chess game shows your rating in the form of a graph, so you can check your progress.

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Chess - Play & Learn

If you’re looking for chess apps for beginners then Chess - Play & Learn is the perfect choice for you. Apart from the usual offline mode with a computer, this chess game lets you play against your friends or random people online as well as solve over 65,000 puzzles included in the app. It’s packed with thousands of videos and interactive sessions from Grandmasters with helpful tips and highlights. All of these amazing features have earned this app a rating of 4.8 stars (out of 5) and 270K downloads on the Apple app store.

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Chess Tiger Pro

Chess Tiger Pro is a chess game app designed for people who want to learn the basics or improve their game. It’s equipped with 2 game modes - Beginner and Expert. The beginner mode comes with features such as move suggestions, tips, wrong move warnings and 50 trainer levels of increasing difficulty. The expert mode has features such as a strong chess engine, support for USCF and FIDE rating scales, the ability to import game collections, a chess engine thinking display and much more. The app lets you choose from 14 chessboards and 9 chess pieces sets.

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Chess for Kids - Play & Learn

If you’re looking for a chess app to teach your kid the basics of the game in a fun and interactive way then Chess for Kids - Play & Learn is the one for you. Chess for Kids - Play & Learn is a free to play chess app on iOS with a rating of 4.9 stars. The game covers everything from basic rules to advance strategies that will help in the development of your kid’s brain. The app has thousands of tricky chess puzzles, hundreds of kid-friendly videos and chess bots with varying skill levels. The app gives the parents full control over their kids' accounts, so they can monitor their kids' progress.

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Battle Chess 3D

This amazing 3D humanoid online multiplayer chess game is available on Playstore and comes with cool animation. It’s among the best chess games as it features five amazing chess sets including barbarian, dwarf, skeleton, orcs and spartan. Moreover, it offers three difficulty levels and requires two players who can play online (you can play with strangers or friends). Its new default control type is D-Pad which can be changed in the setting. Plus its camera rotation is now unlocked by default as well. Further, its awesome graphics make it easy for you to identify any action going on, on the board so you don’t miss your opponent’s moves!

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lichess • Online Chess

Lichess offers the best chess game that is available in around 80 languages. This open-source game is among the top chess games available online, and is specially built for chess enthusiasts who want to play chess without paying anything! Lichess has emerged as one of the fastest-growing chess platforms on the app store with about 150,000 individuals joining daily. It lets you play in arena tournaments and you can find, follow and challenge players too. Moreover, it comes with many variants available both online and offline including Crazyhouse, Antichess, Horde, etc. This app is designed for both phones and tablets that support landscape mode.

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CT-ART 4.0

This is one of the best chess tactics courses available on Android. It has been voted the best chess training program in the world. This course includes around 2,200 basic exercises and 1,800 auxiliary exercises for complete expertise. This course is good for beginners as well as professionals as it covers all aspects from openings to endgame accurately and helps you polish your chess skills with ease. So if you want to improve your chess knowledge and put better strategies into practice, this app can surely prove to be useful!

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