One of the best ways to improve your chess skill is to play chess games online and analyze them. So here you will find the best chess games you can play on your android device. Most of them support variants like Crazy House, Chess960, King of the Hill, Three-Check, Antichess, Atomic, Horde, Racing King.
Lichess
Lichess is an open source app to play chess both online/offline and with 100% ads free. This is available in more than 80 languages. Usually, there are around 35,000- 55,000 players online at any given time, so you don’t even wait a few seconds to find a player.
Here are the main game time controls.
- Bullet Games (1+0, 2+1)
- Blitz Games (3+0, 3+2, 5+0, 5+3)
- Rapid Games (10+0, 10+5, 15+10)
- Classic Games (30+0, 30+20)
Here are the main game variants.
- Crazy House
- Chess960
- King of the Hill
- Three-Check
- Antichess
- Atomic
- Horde
- Racing Kings
Here are the main features.
- Board editor
- Your games stats
- Thousands of chess puzzles
- Tournaments
- Game analysis
- Unlimited opening explorer
- Endgame tablebase explorer
Lichess Stats on Google Play
- Size: 9.9 MB
- Installs: 5,000,000+
- Rating: 4.5
Chess.com
Chess.com chess game is the second most downloaded chess android game in the play store with more than 10 million downloads. Usually, there are around 100,000 players online at any given time
Here are the main game variants.
- Bughouse
- Crazyhouse
- 3-Check
- King of the Hill
- Chess960 (Fischer Random)
- Fog of War
- Chaturanga
- Blindfold chess
- Torpedo
- No Castling
- Automate
- Giveaway Chess
- Horde
- Capture anything chess
- Atomic chess
Here are the main features.
- 150,000+ unique puzzles
- Tournaments
- Chess Lessons
- Game analysis
- Unlimited opening explorer
- Endgame tablebase explorer
- Articles by the best players, coaches, and trainers
- 20+ board themes, 3D chess pieces, and backgrounds
- In-depth performance stats about your games
Chess.com Stats on Google Play
- Size:Varies with device
- Installs: 10,000,000+
- Rating: 4.6
Chess Free
Chess Free game is the most downloaded chess android game in the play store with more than 50 million downloads. It is developed by AI Factory Limited and they have won the best developer award in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2015. The only disadvantage is this game is, there are a lot of advertisement, but we need to accept them because they need money to develop the game.,
Here are the main features.
- 12 play levels (Novice to Expert)
- Casual and Pro modes
- Game analysis
- Review game mode
- ELO Rating based on your results against CPU in Pro Mode
- Chess Stats, Timers, Hints and Handicaps
Chess Free Stats on Google Play
- Size: 24M
- Installs: 50,000,000+
- Rating: 4.5
DroidFish Chess
DroidFish is a very lightweight chess game for Android which can play even very old android phones. They use the very strong Stockfish chess engine, combined with a feature-rich graphical user interface, but you can’t play online games with your friends using DroidFish.
Here are the main features.
- Opening books
- Game analysis
- Two player mode
- PGN import/export/edit
- FEN/EPD import
- Adjustable playing strength
- Blindfold mode
- Third party UCI engines
- Open exchange engine apps, such as texel and komodo 8.
- Endgame tablebases such as Gaviota,Syzygy
DroidFish Stats on Google Play
- Size: 18M
- Installs: 1,000,000+
- Rating: 4.6
CT-ART 4.0 (Chess Tactics 1200-2400 ELO)
This is the highest rating chess app(with at least 500,000+ downloads). And this is a very small app because it just needs 12 MB from your android phone. And this app is not to play chess games, but to learn and practise about Chess.
CT-ART 4.0 Stats on Google Play
Size: 12M
Installs: 500,000+
Rating: 4.8
