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Play Live Chess Play in your browser, nothing to download; Choose any time control or variant; There are 214,725 players online now. Play chess on Chess.com - the #1 chess community with +30 million members around the world. Play online with friends, challenge the computer, join a club, solve puzzles, analyze your games, and learn from hundreds of video lessons. You can also watch top players and compete for prizes. Play against computer – in case you do not want to play against human opponent, you have the option to play chess against computer. In addition to the settings described earlier (e.g. Piece color, game clocks etc.) there is one more setting which allows you to choose from 8 predefined levels of AI strength (1 being the easiest, 8 the hardest).

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Play Chess Online For Kids

In this area, you can play online chess easily and free of charge as a guest. Set up a new game with your own mode and challenge other players to a game, or accept a match offer from the available list. On our website, you can play the classic board game of chess against the computer, friends or any other random opponent. If you choose the chess program, then the game duration and skill level can be configured by the chess computer at different levels, from easy to difficult. The game level will be matched and configured specifically for you. By training with the chess computer, you can retract a move that you have just made. We will not provide any further explanation of how to play chess at this point, as we assume that you are already familiar with the rules of this royal game. If you do not know the rules of chess, then we would recommend that you read them in order to obtain a basic understanding of this strategic board game. We hope that you and your friends have lots of fun and good practice on our chess server.