Best Free Chess
Play full legal chess against the computer — castling, en passant, promotion and three difficulty levels.
Level 1
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How to play
- Select a piece. Click or tap one of your White pieces to highlight every square it can legally move to.
- Make your move. Click a highlighted square to move there. The computer replies straight away.
- Checkmate the king. Attack the enemy king so it cannot escape. Choose a difficulty to match your level.
About Chess
Play a full game of chess against the computer, right in your browser. You take White at the bottom of the board; click one of your pieces to light up its legal moves, then click a square to move. Every rule is here — castling, en passant, pawn promotion, check, checkmate and stalemate — and you can never make a move that leaves your own king in check. Pick Easy, Normal or Hard to set how sharply the computer plays. No signup, no download, nothing uploaded.
Frequently asked questions
You play White. Click or tap one of your pieces to see its legal moves highlighted, then click a destination square to move. The computer plays Black and responds automatically. Pick a difficulty before you start.
You play White, shown at the bottom of the board, and White always moves first. The computer plays Black and replies after each of your moves.
Yes. Castling (kingside and queenside), en passant pawn captures and pawn promotion are all implemented, along with check, checkmate and stalemate detection.
It automatically promotes to a queen, the strongest piece, so you never get stuck mid-move.
It scales with the difficulty you choose. Easy makes mostly casual moves, Normal grabs material and avoids hanging its pieces, and Hard searches several moves ahead.
Completely free, with no signup, no download and no paywall. It runs entirely in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
Yes. It runs in your browser, so Chess works on phones and tablets as well as desktop — there is no app to install.
No. Chess works with no signup at all; an optional free account only exists to unlock higher usage limits.
Usually just a few seconds for a typical file — Chess starts working the moment you give it your input.
Your input is processed in memory and never stored, so nothing is left behind once you have your result.