Google Play ratings
3,105,075
- Average rating
- 4.7
- Installs
- 100M+
First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.
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Mobile game · 2009
Play chess online with millions of players around the world! Enjoy free unlimited games and improve your chess rating with 50,000+ tactics puzzles, interactive lessons and videos, and a powerful computer opponent. Unlock your inner chess master today!
Estimated daily players
Range 470K–36M
Estimated total players
Range 47M–240M
Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out
Nobody publishes how many people play Chess.com, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Google Play, App Store, YouTube. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.
Estimated daily players
~5,400,000
0.0% no change vs one week agoRange 470K – 36M
No source reports a live count for this game, so this is a share of the total player base — a genre assumption rather than an observation, which is why the range is wide.
Estimated total players
~110,000,000
0.0% no change vs one week agoRange 47M – 240M
Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.
2 readings · last 2 days
| Month | Estimated total players | Change |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | ~79,000,000 | — |
Last checked Aug 9, 2026
How many people have rated, reviewed or installed Chess.com where it is sold.
How many people gather around Chess.com outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.
Not tracked for Chess.com: Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.
We estimate that about 110,000,000 people have played Chess.com — plausibly between 47M and 240M. Around 5,400,000 of them play on a given day, in a range of 470K and 36M. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Google Play, App Store and YouTube rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.
Yes. Chess.com is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.
Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 8, 2026.
Chess.com has 2,890,000 subscribers on YouTube, as of August 9, 2026.
Chess.com was released on December 30, 2009 for Android and iOS.
Chess.com is available on Android and iOS. You can get it from Google Play and App Store (iPhone).