# Chess - tChess Lite

> Fun and easy to use

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id296756437](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id296756437)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id296756437`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Tom Kerrigan
- **Category:** Strategy
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (77 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-11-29
- **First published:** 2008-11-15
- **Size:** 5.82 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-15
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chess-tchess-lite/id296756437)
- **Website:** [http://www.tchessgame.com/lite.php](http://www.tchessgame.com/lite.php)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.tchessgame.com/privacy.php](http://www.tchessgame.com/privacy.php)

## Description

tChess Lite is the popular chess game designed for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It provides a virtual chessboard that is fun and easy to use, with a clean UI, fast performance, and offline play for 1- or 2-player games.

Key features include tap-to-move, legal move highlights, a full move history with replay, undo/redo, built-in chess clock, hint mode, auto-save, and support for rated games. It offers a vast openings library (over 15,000) and a profile system to track your progress. A fully-featured tChess Pro is available for enthusiasts seeking stronger engines.

## Rankings

- #149,340 — Overall

## Review summary

Reviews consistently highlight tChess Lite as a strong learning tool with practice, hints, and rich analysis that helps players improve, especially beginners. The app’s simple interface, solid engine, and adaptive difficulty receive frequent praise, along with its affordable/free access. Key downsides mentioned by multiple users include a lack of a save-your-game feature, occasional bugs or glitches during play, and some quality/UX concerns with settings. Some users also desire more challenging openings or puzzles and more robust progress tracking. Overall, it’s a capable training app with room for improvement in save functionality and reliability.

### Pros

- Excellent learning/training tool: practice, study, review moves, hints, and rollback/analysis features.
- Beginner-friendly with progressive difficulty: helps learning from mistakes and rating increases with progress.
- Strong engine with a clean, simple interface.
- Useful hints and move analysis: compare your ideas with hints and learn from outcomes.
- Good value and accessibility: basic/free options and positive price/value perception.

### Cons

- Lack of a save-game feature mentioned by multiple users; desire to save games for reference.
- Occasional bugs or glitches affecting play (e.g., draw after four moves, pawn/board anomalies).
- Quality/UX concerns about settings and perceived UI frustrations mentioned by some users.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id296756437)