Play Chess Online

Yes. Choose Beginner, Easy, Medium or Hard and start playing right away — no account or download needed. The computer runs in your browser, so it even works offline once the page has loaded.

Start with Beginner, which looks only one move ahead and makes human-like mistakes. Move up to Easy once you win regularly. Medium calculates three moves ahead and punishes loose pieces, and Hard searches much deeper, so it rarely blunders.

All official rules are built in. To castle, tap your king and then the square two steps toward the rook. En passant captures show up as a legal move right after an enemy pawn moves two squares beside yours. When a pawn reaches the last rank you pick a queen, rook, bishop or knight.

A game is drawn by stalemate (the player to move has no legal move but isn't in check), threefold repetition of the same position, the 50-move rule (50 moves each without a capture or pawn move), or when neither side has enough material to checkmate, such as king and bishop against king.

Yes. Choose 2 players (same device) and pass the phone or tablet back and forth, or play at a laptop. Use Flip to turn the board around for the other player.

No. Every move is saved in your browser, so the game is waiting when you come back. You can also press Copy PGN to export the moves in standard notation for analysis in any chess app.