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Learn Chess: How to play chess

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Learn Chess: How to play chess has 48,110 installs (+44.6% in 30 days), rated 4.6 from 1,521 ratings, #2,144 of 11,592 in Board.

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Installs
48,110
+2,779 (+6.6%) a week, measured over 16 days
Rating
4.6
1,521 ratings
+89 ratings (+6.7%) a week, measured over 16 days
Rank on Android
#252,659
of 2,768,437
up 13,563 since 2026-10-24
Version
2.5
Last updated 2026-07-28

Also in the last two weeksclimbed 13,563 places this week

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🎯 NEW TO CHESS? START HERE!

Learn Chess is the perfect app for absolute beginners. Whether you've never touched a chess piece or just want to brush up on the basics, we'll guide you from zero to playing your first game.

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📚 LEARN STEP BY STEP

Our carefully designed curriculum takes you through everything:

• Meet the pieces - Learn what each piece is called and how it looks
• How pieces move - Master the movement of pawns, knights, bishops, rooks, queens, and kings
• Special moves - Understand castling, en passant, and pawn promotion
• Rules of the game - Learn check, checkmate, and stalemate
• Your first game - Put it all together and play!

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✨ FEATURES

🎮 Interactive Lessons
Don't just read - play! Every lesson has hands-on exercises where you move pieces on the board.

⭐ Track Your Progress
Earn stars for completing lessons and collect coins as you learn. Watch your journey unfold on the map!

🔥 Daily Streak
Build a practice habit with our streak system. Come back each day to keep your streak alive!

🤖 Practice vs Bot
Ready to play? Challenge our friendly Baby Bot designed to help beginners win their first games.

♟️ Free Play Mode
Experiment freely on a full chess board. Practice positions, try different moves, and learn at your own pace.

🔊 Voice Narration
Prefer listening? Turn on voice narration to have lesson instructions read aloud.

🌙 Dark Mode
Easy on the eyes with full dark mode support.

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🎓 DESIGNED FOR TRUE BEGINNERS

Unlike other chess apps that assume you already know the rules, Learn Chess starts from the very beginning. We explain everything clearly with no jargon, making chess
accessible to everyone.

Perfect for:
• Complete beginners who've never played
• Kids learning chess for the first time
• Adults who want to finally understand the game
• Anyone who tried learning chess before and got confused

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🚀 START YOUR CHESS JOURNEY TODAY

Chess is one of the world's most beloved games, played for over a thousand years. Join millions of players worldwide and discover why chess is called "the game of kings."

Download now and make your first move!

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Growth change in installs

Per Growth Growth % Actual change Measured over
day Not enough history yet
week +2,779 +6.6% +6,234 15.7 days
month +12,669 +44.6% +19,689 46.6 days
year Not enough history yet
How these figures are measured

Change in installs, scaled to each window from the real gap between crawls. A window needs a full period of history before it reports anything.

Installs48,110
2026-09-14 · 28,421 2026-10-31
Ratings1,521
2026-09-14 · 980 2026-10-31
New ratings per monthno crawl yet this month
Sep 2026 from 2026-09-14: +112 Oct 2026: +429 Nov 2026 so far: no crawl yet
Sep 14 Nov so far
Average rating4.6
2026-09-14 · 4.6 2026-10-31

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