Chess Online & Offline

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4.8
167K reviews
10M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this game

Checkmate is a modern chess mobile app with friendly design, classical music in the background and the excitement of discovering the nuances of this wonderful board game. We created a new version of this royal game, innovative and full of surprises. The app offers the possibility to play online with players from all over the world (for rating points) and offline practice play with a computer (without rating points). This app was born from a fascination with chess - the game that has been moving minds and hearts of millions of players around the world for centuries!

Some say that chess was born in India, others that in Persia. In many languages it is called differently: Chess, Scacchi, शतरंज, Échecs, Xadrez, Szachy, Schach, Ajedrez, Шахматы, Satranç, チェス, 棋, الشطرنج. We have been playing this game for over 1500 years, and today it is played in almost 200 countries around the world - with new secrets still being discovered. People all over the world play millions of wars on a 64-field boards every day - you could say these are the real games of thrones. Chess conquered the world long ago and its popularity is growing constantly. We want to play our part in it!


Key Features
• Playing chess online with players from all over the world
• Playing chess offline against the computer - you can choose the difficulty level from beginner to expert
• Playing chess with your friends - you can invite your friends to play and accept invitations from others
• Sound effects during the game to enhance the experience
• Advanced haptics - various vibrations effects make the game even more engaging
• Choice of 21 chessboard styles and 16 sets of chess pieces
• Helpful markers showing: legal moves, last move, possible captures, king in check and more
• Ability to use the pending move (also called premove) to avoid wasting time in games - when the opponent's move comes, your move will be made automatically
• Ability to browse game history during the game
• Over 3000 game openings with variations - the app recognizes them and displays information, e.g. Sicilian Defense, Queen's Gambit, Caro-Kann Defense, Italian Game and French Defense
• Most beautiful pieces of classical music while using the app
• Puzzles - solving chess puzzles helps develop your skills. It takes little time and you get points for guessing the best moves! 500,000+ tactics puzzles to solve - mate in 1, mate in 2, mate in 3, perpetual check, endgames, pin, fork, skewer, sacrifice, etc. - if you solve them quickly you will get a speed bonus!
• Rankings - our global ranking and country rankings of all registered players! The order in the player rankings is determined by ELO rating, number of online games won, and points earned while solving puzzles. At any time you can check your exact position in the ranking in your country and worldwide!


More Details
• Time-limited online games in the following modes: Classic (10, 20 and 30 minutes), Blitz (3, 5 and 3 minutes + 2s/move), Bullet (1 minute, 1 minute + 1s/move and 2 minutes + 1s/move)
• In the online game you will meet players of all levels, from beginner to grandmaster
• Strong computer for offline play with 16 strength levels (from 600 to 2100 ELO rating)
• Rankings, players and computer strength in game are calculated using the Arpad Elo formula - well known as the ELO chess rating
• Access to game statistics, editing user data including profile picture
• Ultra-fast, efficient and reliable Firebase Firestore database which is part of the Google infrastructure - all to ensure the convenience and comfort of games for thousands of players simultaneously
• Light and dark theme support
• Material Design 3 interface
• Checkmate Chess is free to download and use
• Respecting your privacy and the security of your data


About Us
• Visit SplendApps.com: https://splendapps.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SplendApps/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/splendapps/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/SplendApps
Updated on
Jun 21, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Messages and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.8
159K reviews
Tom Shows
June 30, 2025
Update: About to take another star for inconsistent difficulty. Dropped back to 800 to try to learn from mistakes and the computer sometimes plays well above 1000. Update: Taking another star after dozens of games noting that the difficulty between 800 and 900 is too steep. Good chess app with one basic flaw. There is no option to turn off the screen shake effect. It's jarring and unnecessary, and I had hoped by purchasing the app I could turn off the screen shake. Unfortunately, no.
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Nasatamunaelel Olagivuienarcia
June 14, 2025
Great app straight to game after doing things right and you can play for free. plus you can even customize the field and the looks of pieces there's always a space for improvement in that area but then again I have been playing without being registered so I don't have a clue if the app improves more once your a registered player overall a TRUE 10/10 don't expect super awesome graphics its free and they are doing a awesome job that's in part the reason why I give it a 10 out of 10
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Paul Dallas
April 20, 2025
A truly tremendous chess game, both online and offline. Gripes: 1. Checkmate remains active even when closed, chewimg up memory and sending annoying notifications. 2. Pointless, loud advertisements about irrelevant computer adventure games pop up between chess games but this probably has nothing to do with the Checkmate game authors. There are no advertisements during the chess game, thankfully, only between games.
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What’s new

Usability improvements and minor bug fixes.