# Chess.com - Play and Learn

> Online Lessons and Puzzles

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id329218549](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id329218549)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id329218549`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Chess.com
- **Category:** Strategy
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (825,095 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.10.30
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-17
- **First published:** 2009-10-29
- **Size:** 437 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chess-com-play-and-learn/id329218549)
- **Website:** [https://www.chess.com](https://www.chess.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.chess.com/legal#privacypolicy](https://www.chess.com/legal#privacypolicy)

## Description

**Chess.com - Play and Learn** is an online chess app for playing, learning, and improving your strategy. Challenge friends and players worldwide in real-time games, tournaments, correspondence chess, and exciting variants such as Chess960, blitz, bullet, Puzzle Rush, and blindfold chess. You can also play offline against more than 100 computer opponents.

Improve your skills with 500,000+ chess puzzles, interactive lessons, master-led videos, game reviews, coaching tips, opening guidance, and detailed performance statistics. Join a global chess community, follow top players, explore popular openings, customize boards and pieces, and track your rating as you progress from beginner to advanced player.

## Rankings

- #494 — Overall
- #2 — Essential Board Games
- #3 — Classic Board Games
- #2 — cheese
- #11 — risk
- #13 — come

## Review summary

Users broadly praise the app for its solid learning content, online play with friends, and a realistic chess experience. The main recurring complaint is that core features are heavily gated behind a paid subscription, which some feel detracts from the free experience. Overall, it’s viewed as one of the best chess apps with ongoing updates, but pricing remains a common point of contention.

### Pros

- Strong learning tools with tutorials, learning games, and puzzles that help users improve.
- Allows online play with opponents anytime and includes a social/friend‑connectivity aspect.
- Feels like real, straightforward chess with an intuitive, non‑overcomplicated experience.
- Regular updates and new features (tutorials and learning games) that keep improving the app.

### Cons

- Premium/subscription model gates many features (puzzles, lessons, and other learning tools) and is consistently cited as a drawback.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id329218549)