Last updated on January 28th, 2026 at 08:01 am
Chess for Kids: Learn to Play – Family Game Review
Chess for Kids: Learn to Play is a Family/Board/Education game from Chess.com, LLC, first launched in 6th April 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 91,952+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Chess for Kids: Learn to Play Stand Out
Learn chess the fun, easy way with the #1 chess app trusted by schools for teaching and learning.
With the ChessKid app, you can:
- Play free chess games online or offline
- Solve puzzles that sharpen young minds
- Challenge friends, chess bots, or the computer
- Learn step-by-step through interactive lessons
Perfect for kids, parents, and coaches, ChessKid makes learning both the basics and advanced strategies simple and exciting. Every puzzle and tutorial builds real chess skills. All in a SAFE and AD-FREE environment tailored specifically for kids.
CHESS ONLINE FOR FREE:
- Play as many chess games as you want free of charge or join chess tournaments to compete with thousands of other chess players from all over the globe. Chess practice makes you better.
Enjoy multiple player vs. player modes:
- Play chess against your friends
- Slow chess
- Fast chess
It is up to you to decide.
Test your skill against other kids or battle against our funny chess bots!
CHESS COMMUNITY
- ChessKid is much more than just an app. It is your chance to play chess for FREE with kids from around the world and join an amazing community of more than 50,000 players enjoying ChessKid games every month.
- Over 500,000 chess games are played each month by more than 200,000 active ChessKid users.
PLAY CHESS ONLINE AND OFFLINE AGAINST THE COMPUTER
- Meet 10 funny chess bots perfect for all skill levels and suitable beginning players. They become your best playmates on your way to mastering chess strategies and tactics. Playing chess against a computer is a great way to practice your chess moves. Make chess practice part of your daily routine.
CHESS PUZZLES
- Sharpen your tactical skills and have fun with over 350,000 tricky puzzles.
- Solve up to three chess puzzles per day completely for free. Our puzzles help you become a chess pro in no time.
CHESS LESSONS
- Improve your game with amazing, kid-friendly chess coaching videos on rules and basics, strategy, chess tactics, openings, endgames and much more.
- Learn chess tactics from grandmasters and enjoy chess with our amazing FunMasterMike’s tutorials. He loves teaching chess and wants to share his knowledge with you.
- Strengthen your skills with a crash course on how to deliver checkmate and become an unbeatable chess player. Learn from the best chess tutorials.
Chess, ajedrez, xadrez, satranç, scacchi, schach, شطرنج … no matter the language, no matter the name, chess is the world’s best strategy game.
Playing chess games is completely free and unlimited for all players on the apps and website. Puzzles and videos are unlimited for Gold members. Kids can only chat in games with their parents; no other free chat is allowed. They cannot make friends with anyone without explicit parental permission. Parents have full control over kids’ accounts.
Chess for Kids is the best app for kids who strive to get better at chess. With our app, mastering chess will never be boring. Our funny cartoon characters serve as chess trainers and help you become a chess pro. Join the ChessKid family today!
ABOUT CHESSKID:
ChessKid is built by Chess.com – #1 in chess online.
ChessKid is the #1 scholastic chess app.
ChessKid is trusted by over 2,000 schools and 3 million kids worldwide.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ChessKidcom
Twitter: http://twitter.com/chesskidcom
Terms of Use: https://www.chesskid.com/legal#termsofservice
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Chess for Kids: Learn to Play is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th January 2026
Recent improvements include:
Play in style with brand-new chess boards and pieces!
Now there are even more ways to make chess your own. Unlock cool new chess boards and chess pieces to make your games look just the way you want. Pick your favorite styles, mix and match, and show off your setup every time you play.
- Unlock fun new chess board designs
- Unlock awesome chess piece styles
- Mix and match boards and pieces
- Use your unlocked boards and pieces in any game you play
More customization, more creativity, and more fun in every match!
Download & Availability
Chess for Kids: Learn to Play is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Chess for Kids: Learn to Play on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Es incredible para aprender!!!! Lo uso un monton! Le doy 5 Estrellas.
Its great but way too much stuff requires a subscription, we get they need money but having the daily quests ask you to do stuff you cant do and all the lessens requiring a memebership is just crazy.
Its the best way to learn to play chess in a learning environment.
Pretty nice we love the new avatar feature.
This is the best it helps us learn.
So good. Use it when your kid is in UIL chess.
So our kid was like MOM can we know chess so we can make the chess team? So we said sure but we dont know chess so we go on his we pad and we buy this game! Loved it, it tells you how to move the people if you forget or just dont know very help full. To be honest we think this made us(we stupid person that doesnt know how to play chess)how to play chess TRY NOW we LOVE IT.
Very bueatiful game we love it Im learning so much:D.
Its super fun and educational for our kids.
Its real good it is real fun,too.
Im so happy to whoever created this game. We love it so much. Its the best game we ever had. We wish we had 10 million chess kids apps.
Sometimes it signs us off no further questions.
It was five stars because it helped us get better at chess and it helped us learn more about chess and helped us grow our score.
New update is cool our kid loves it but the play with kid function seems to have some issue. Its taking extremely long time to find a match and it used to find someone within a couple seconds. We tried it several times and only succeeded once.
Very fun.You get stars and gems from playing chess and the gems are for getting good avatars. Boredom busters.
Its not as the website but it is still really fun.
It is just that our puzzles are always zoomed in.
It was so glitchy and dont even get us started on the amount of ads hear something really spooky the music started playing backwards and then it kept showing this creepy photo do not get this game.
The game was the best thing to ever play.
This game is so fun but it also teaches how to play chess you play against an AI robotAnd try to get his King you also get to choose which color you wanna beAlso the first time we ever played this we won we really recommend this game for kids and adults who wanna learn chessAnd we think its a great gameYou can also make it online which we think is amazingSo thats why you should probably download it.
This is the best chess app Ive ever used so far in our life.
We love the games. We love all the different levels and the challenges that there was no way we can leave nothing but a five star rate.
Mostly for kids that from lowest to highest but still helped our children learn chess.
Our child is learning how to play chess n' she says she can learn very limited.. So can you make some stuff free? Like more puzzles per day more lessons that are free? Thank your for readying.
This App Is Really GOOD!!! You can battle people, battle robots, and watch lessons from masters of chess.
We thought the purpose of this app was to teach Chess. Who is the idiot that decided it was more important to make everyone be a cartoon character instead of play Chess.
We like this but a few problems 1. Why does the dog get locked? Its too easy. 2. Can we have more than 3 Puzzles? 3. Remove the draw because we always get it when we checkmate. 4. Not very many lessons. (Unless u pay) Please fix this.
Cool but expensive and the pussl doll is werd.
Great app for kids to learn playing chess but have a suggestion for improvement. Our 6-yr old likes to play with the bot. However he is tempted to use hint. It will be great if you can hide the hint or leave it for parents to control. It is difficult keeping very young kids from being tempted to use hints.
Its a great way to start chess but you have to pay.
Why did we lose our adult avatar? Now our only option as an adult is a child? Even our two kids thought the change was ridiculous. Otherwise the app is great.
This game is so bad and boring like our parents are like PLAY CHESS PLAY CHESS its not fun.
Whenever we do lessons it always says that there was an error. Sometimes when we do puzzle battles and the match making is taking a long time. We exit and it plays a puzzle battle anyway. Chess.com is better. We think the games are too easy for us.
Okay game we like it ment to give it 3 stars.
We were loving this game! But now we are not so sure because YOU TOOK THE OLD PICTURES AWAY!And now we have to have a character that we can only customize with five options each! Its just so stupid and we dont want to be rude or anything but please just bring the old pictures back!This was our favorite game till now.So yeah just Please.
It is very good and very challenging.
Im a kid that has been playing for some time on our computer. Recently we signed in on this iPod touch .we had to get an older version because we have iOS 12.5,but we dont see a difference. Anyways great app.
This is a great app quite secure and suitable for kids.
The only way to win is to Do what we did.
This game is great. We can see ur mom.
This game helps us improve our chess skills.
This teaches you how to play chess with fun and friends.
Love the game . Very educational for children to learn . Love the choices to choose from.
THIS IS THE BEST! Why? Well 1, you can play people online. 2, the videos are awesome!! 3, the little chess pieces that pop up every now and then in the videos are just soooooooo cute! 4, you can take ONLINE LESSONS and our coach is FunMasterMike himself!! And we have a rating of almost 1200!! And Im only about 10! Please update! Oh and we cant message chesskid and we cant friend request FunMasterMike. But still 5 stars.
ChessKid is awesome because it has really well trained bots. The app is very well organized, and fun for kids to learn Chess.
Chess kid is amazing we kept playing and then we can beat some of the bots.
This is arguably one of the (if not THE) greatest chess platforms for young people. Its safe and you can learn so much from the lessons and puzzles. You can even use an analysis tool to assess your games! Best chess app Ive ever used.
Do you have to get a subscription but its good and it really helps.
We love chesskid and think it helps us as an eight year old fourth grade student improve on our chess playing.
Really good for beginners, intermediate, and advanced.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 10.1.1
- Size: 137.40 MB
- iOS: 15.5 or later
- Languages: AR, HR, CS, NL, EN, FR, KA, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, LT, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ES, SV, TH, TR, UK, VI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Chess.com, LLC
Last updated: 17th January 2026 | Genre: Family, Board | Developer: Chess.com, LLC