Bring chess to your Home Screen: solve daily puzzles, play online or offline, explore classic games, and sharpen your skills with Coach.
Chess is always close by when you feel like playing, learning something new, or taking a break with a good puzzle.
Add Chess Widget to the Home Screen of your iPhone or iPad. Solve puzzles, learn openings, play with friends, and review your games — all at your own pace.
MAKE A LITTLE TIME FOR CHESS
More than 11,000 puzzles help you practice calculation and spot beautiful combinations. Start with a position in the widget, then open the app to find the solution. Need a hand? Take a hint, then try the puzzle again on your own.
UNDERSTAND THE OPENINGS YOU PLAY
The Learning section offers 15 opening courses, from the Italian Game and Ruy Lopez to the Sicilian Defense and King's Gambit.
Read the explanations, try moves on the board, and discover the ideas behind them. Step-by-step practice, move reviews, and key-position challenges help the lessons stick. Your progress is saved, so you can pick up where you left off whenever you like.
PLAY YOUR WAY
• Against the computer — choose your side and difficulty, try out ideas, and use hints while you practice.
• Online through Lichess — find opponents, play rated or casual games, and choose your time control.
• With friends — send challenges, share invitation links, and arrange a rematch.
• Side by side — connect two devices and enjoy local multiplayer without an internet connection.
Online mode also includes chat, your Lichess profile, ratings, and recent games.
LEARN FROM YOUR OWN GAMES
Coach mode helps you understand where a game turned and what you could have done better. Open a completed Lichess game, see how your moves were assessed, and find inaccuracies, mistakes, and missed opportunities.
Return to a key moment and try to find the best move yourself. Take a hint if you need one, explore a continuation, or keep playing from that position. Evaluation and time-spent charts help you see the whole game.
DISCOVER THE MASTERS' GAMES
Explore more than 100,000 games by outstanding chess players, from historic classics to games by today's grandmasters. Choose a favorite player, find games by year and opening, and go through them move by move or turn on automatic playback.
CREATE YOUR OWN POSITIONS
Use the board editor to explore an idea or a position from a book. Arrange the pieces, import and copy positions in FEN format, then play from the position against the computer.
MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME
Choose a board color theme and turn sounds on or off. Switch to Zen Mode for a quiet game with fewer distractions. Keep a puzzle or a position from your selected mode close at hand in the widget.
A puzzle over coffee, a new opening in the evening, or a game with a friend — find your own reason to come back to chess.
Questions or feedback?
Write to me at oleg.v.soloviev@gmail.com
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Love the app. Would rate higher if we had the option to “hide” the number of moves needed. In a real game we wouldn’t see how many moves we need for checkmate. So, having this ability to practice without knowing how many moves you need will help in your development. Currently, I just simply try to avoid looking at the number of moves needed and instead try to calculate if it is mate in 3, or mate in 2, etc. Otherwise, again, this is a great download. Would definitely recommend to chess lovers.
Developer Response
Thank you very much for your detailed comment. I have added this option.
Awesome, but…
Toiletpaper
Would love if we could just interact with the chess board on the Home Screen. There’s another chess app that does that, but unfortunately no puzzles. Don’t like how it has to open the app. Other than that, love it!
Developer Response
Thank you. This will be done, but a little later.
Not playable
Ty2200Ty
For some reason it’s not playable? Who would want this just for the image of a chess board? You could get way better way cooler looking chess boards in many different scenarios as an imagine on google and use that as your widget. Since it’s unplayable I don’t see a reason to ever need this app
Developer Response
The widget is needed so that you can think carefully about the solution without opening the application. And then solve the puzzle in the app.
• New Learning section: 15 opening courses with theory and step-by-step practice.
• Reinforce your knowledge by reviewing moves and key positions, with your learning progress saved.
Version 1.27.1
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
Oleg Soloviev
Size
49.1 MB
Category
Board
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
