chess24 app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 9488 ratings )

Games Education Board Strategy
Developer: Play Magnus

Free

Current version: 1.7.3, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 12 May 2014
App size: 77.82 Mb

Play chess online, solve tactics puzzles, watch all major chess tournaments live and analyse your own moves with the official chess24.com app! With chess24 on your phone the next game is just a touch away!  

PLAY ONLINE
- Play against chess24 users all around the globe
- Immediately analyse your moves afterwards to see how you can improve your chess
- Pick how fast you want to play – 1, 3, 5 or 15 minutes for your moves
- Premove to respond to your opponent’s move instantly (with chess24 mobile users are at no disadvantage!)
- Games are automatically stored on your device so you can replay or analyse them later

PLAY VS. COMPUTER
- Play our online chess engine opponents including “Magnus Carlen at 10” years old
 - Challenge offline engine opponents — no internet connection required — or create your own custom character and time limit
 - Review your games afterwards, improve and play again

INTERACTIVE VIDEO LESSONS
- Watch free videos from our vast video library
- Improve you chess with top grandmasters such as: Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler, Jan Gustafsson, Lawrence Trent and many more
- Fully interactive chess board allows you to make your own moves, experiment, analyse

LIVE BROADCASTS
- Follow major chess events in real-time — chess24 broadcasts live games every day from the world’s best tournaments
- Analyse live games with a chess engine and try your your own moves on the board
- Compare the first moves in live games to our database of chess games
- Replay games and tournaments after they’re over

LATEST NEWS
- Access the latest chess news from chess24 and stay up-to-date
- Follow your favorite pros with tournament reports, interviews, game analysis, and fun features
- Read comments from other chess fans and leave your own

TACTICS TRAINER
- Hone your tactical skills with our advanced Tactics Trainer that is tailored to your level 
- Thousands of puzzles with a wide range of difficulty
 - Climb our leaderboard and compete with your friends
- Receive feedback when you want - after each puzzle, after each wrong answer or at the end of a session
- Not sure about the solution? Analyse the puzzle right away using our powerful analysis tools 

ANALYSE EVERYTHING
 - Build up your own chess database! All analysis and games can be saved on your device
- Set up any legal position. Analyse real-world games right when they’re played
- Step through a game, add variations and explore
- Ask the computer - our powerful engine evaluates positions as deeply as you choose
- Consult a huge number of games by top chess grandmasters - see what others did in your position
- Find the answer to any chess problems you encounter

IMPORT CHESS GAMES
- Import games using the popular PGN format 
- Use iTunes Filesharing to sync PGN files to your device
- Save games to your device and analyse them wherever and whenever you like 

AND MUCH MORE
- Customise the appearance of the board and pieces from a choice of attractive themes
- Manage your chess24 profile right from your mobile device
- Keep track of your stats and ranking

SUBSCRIPTIONS
"Chess - Play, train, analyse & watch live" is free to download and use. "chess24 Premium" gives you unlimited access to the app including our video library for $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year through an auto-renewing subscription. "chess24 Mobile Premium" gives you unlimited access to the app (excluding our video library) for $1.99 a month or $16.99 a year through an auto-renewing subscription.

Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel a subscription during the active period. You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal in the Account Settings after purchase.

Our Terms of Use: https://chess24.com/en/static/terms-and-conditions
Our Privacy Policy: https://chess24.com/en/static/privacy-policy

Pros and cons of chess24 app for iPhone and iPad

chess24 app good for

Playing and learning chess is great on this app. The only thing missing is correspondence chess and the video of live events. Still I can highly recommend the app which also provides a great analysis function for creating a opening tree.

The app was recommended by somebody in my chess club, so I wanted to give it try. Now I find myself using it almost daily, checking out current tournaments or playing some games myself. Im actually surprised the app is free for what it offers. Good stuff by chess24

I love this app with all the videos and broadcasting it does. I think there might be a problem with the engine though as sometimes the computer just gives up rooks and says equal (not for compensation just clear hanging pieces). It would also be nice in the video section to have a reset filter option as once I search for something I cant go back and scroll through all the videos. The video option in the broadcast doesnt seem to be working as well but Im not sure if thats just because of recent changes in broadcast options. But great app and recommended to all chess lovers :)

Read the news and watch live tournaments, then play a game or two, and check your mistakes with the engine right afterwards. Awesome.

I always struggle to find quality news reporting on chess games. With the word championship going on I ran into one of the chess24 articles on the web and I was thoroughly impressed at the quality of content in he article. They had Twitter comments, cartoons and in very well composed. Kudos to whoever is writing your news report on the world championship.

This is probably the best all in one chess app for playing, watching live broadcast and listening to commentary. I wish they could include the auto play button when reviewing games without us having to press the arrow keys.

Some bad moments

I wrote to chess24 an email 2 month ago to fix the problem that games ends during a game and ends with wrong times, so you have 30 sec left and the other player wins. You get only standard mails and nothing happen!! I will quit my prostatus

An app that fails to register a new user, or use the facebook profile (oh thanks for grabbing my profile and email address and still fail to register) deserves 0 stars. Unfortunately the app store reviews begin with one star, so here is your star.

No excuse for not fixing clock, time stamping and forfeit messages. General offerings good but a distant second to ICC for on line live play.

This app is overpriced, I will never pay 16.99 for just a year membership. Its a shame because its good for viewing chess tournaments. But in all other ways chess.com has it beat.

Chess 24 is a wonderful site with excellent tournament coverage and great training materials created by top GMs like Jan GUSTAFSON and PETER Svidler who work for them. But the play zone and the iPad app are DOGS and its really a shame. The iPad app hasnt had a meaningful update in ages. You will lose games you have in fact won, the app will crash in the middle of a game, the responsiveness and feel are slow and poor all around. Its a pity, their gms are strong but their coders are patzers!

I dont understand if this application was developed in 1 night. usually when I play I lose the game "on time" when my opponent time is 0 seconds. even if I play my move in advance it takes 3 seconds to do it. the same thing happens when I play in 3G,4G or WiFi. when I play on my PC on the same WiFi everything goes better. Im very disappointed and this application is a big "bug". Shame. In facts, if you have a lot of time but the opponent will make the move when his time came to 0 seconds, the connection for the game is closed. For the server your time continue to go on(but you cant see that, because the developer cut the connection) and youll lose at the end of your time. Really pity, to not fix an error like that on a chess program. vincent

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