Welcome to the 2025 Edition of Chess. Relieve boredom, have fun and exercise your mind all at the same time with this classic board game.
Regardless of your playing level, ZingMagic's multi award winning Chess is a fun, stimulating and challenging game for beginners and champions alike.
Even if you have never played Chess before, that’s not a problem. The game helps you at every step with hints, legal move display, piece move information, game information and over 20 levels of play enabling you to learn Chess at your own pace.
Chess is a two player game with a colourful history which can be traced back to its Indian ancestor, Chaturanga. In 1291 the Archbishop of Canterbury in England threatened clergy who continued playing Chess with a diet of bread and water.
The game has flourished over the years and is now one of the most popular board games in the world, requiring thought, skill and strategy to become successful.
The object of Chess is to capture the opponent's King. To capture the King you must place it in check. If the King cannot escape by itself, or with the help of its army, it is in checkmate and the King is captured.
Game features:
* Play against the computer or another human player on the same device.
* Over 20 levels of play to suit your mood.
* Award winning artificial intelligence engine which is particularly strong at expert levels.
* Understands all Chess rules such as en passant captures, castling, under promotion, draw by repetition, perpetual check and 50 move rule.
* Support for alternate boards and pieces, including super touch friendly boards.
* Full undo and redo of moves.
* Show last move.
* Show legal moves.
* Show threatened pieces.
* Hints.
* Chess is just one of our large collection of best of breed classic board, card and puzzle games available for a wide range of platforms.
Welcome to the 2025 Edition of Chess.
Multiple minor improvements to the AI to improve game play.
Numerous minor UI improvements.
Updated dependant SDKs.
Accommodate the upcoming Google Play breaking change.
* Added an extra sprinkle of AI to improve game play.
* Numerous minor improvements to the game presentation.
* Updated dependent SDKs
Fix to better support Google CMP SDK handling
Replaced CMP solution SDK with Google equivalent CMP SDK.
General maintenance release. Update dependant SDKs = bug fixes.
* Unfortunately we have to remove the multi-player game support from this version. We hope to be able to reintroduce it once we find an alternate technology provider.
* Updated dependent SDKs
* A number of bug fixes.
Minor language fixes. Removed availability from a certain store.
Added support for latest Android OS versions. Updated all dependant SDKs = bug fixes. Minor adjustments to AI to improve overall game play. We hope you continue to enjoy this classic board game.
General maintenance release for dependant SDKs.
Welcome to the 2021 version of Chess. Relieve boredom, have fun and exercise your mind all at the same time with this classic board game.
Smoother and more refined user interface across more devices.
Updated dependent SDKs
A number of bug fixes.
General maintenance release including updated dependant SDKs
General maintenance release including updated dependant SDKs
General maintenance release including updated dependant SDKs
Update depedant SDKs to align with changes to Google Play store policies
Includes some minor bug fixes in online multiplayer game mode.
Significant update now allows players to play online against others in the same room or around the world. If you can no longer share your device with a friend, no problem just play online instead. No accounts needed, simply play.
Significant update now allows players to play online against others in the same room or around the world. If you can no longer share your device with a friend, no problem just play online instead. No accounts needed, simply play.
Welcome to the 2020 edition of Chess. An updated AI and more refined UI bring this classic chess board game right up to date.
Update to remove all Google G+ functionality as this is no longer supported by Google.
Update to remove all Google G+ functionality as this is no longer supported by Google.
Welcome to the 2019 edition of Chess. Apparently AI is suddenly all the rage this year meanwhile the 2019 edition celebrates 16 years of ZingMagic bringing you the best in AI based board, card and puzzle games. So, yes we mastered genuine AI along time ago!
Welcome to the 2018 edition of Chess. Featuring a faster and smoother user interface along with a stronger state of the art artificial intelligence engine, the 2018 edition celebrates 15 years of ZingMagic bringing you the best in board, card and puzzle games.
Welcome to the 2018 edition of Chess. Featuring a faster and smoother user interface along with a stronger state of the art artificial intelligence engine, the 2018 edition celebrates 15 years of ZingMagic bringing you the best in board, card and puzzle games.
Nov 2016Update incorporates the latest releases of the tools and support libraries to provide a more robust and slightly smaller download.June 2016Additional language support.A number of minor bug fixes to better support more devices.Aug 2015Update to support the revised Google advertizer privacy policy guidelines/.Jun 2015Updated ad-sdks fixing numerous issues. Some minor fixes with G+ integration and error handling.
