Chess Royale

Play with Friends, Learn & Win

Ratings

Age

18+

Board

Languages

English

Latest Version 0.63.2

Tue Dec 02 2025

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Chess Royale offers a premium digital chess experience for players of all skill levels. Whether you want a 1-minute Bullet match or a deep 48-hour Correspondence game, this app has a mode for you. It features a robust ranking system, beautiful 2D and 3D themes, and an extensive library of chess puzzles designed to sharpen your tactical vision. Connect with millions of players worldwide and track your progress with detailed statistics and analysis tools.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

82/100

Chess Royale succeeds by making the oldest game in the world feel modern and accessible. For a veteran player, the highlight here is the variety of modes—ranging from Blitz and Bullet matches to the more relaxed daily puzzles. The matchmaking is efficient, usually pairing you with an opponent of similar ELO within seconds, which is crucial for a mobile experience.

The visual customization is a nice touch, allowing players to unlock different board styles and piece designs. However, the true strength lies in the teaching tools. The post-game analysis and hint systems are great for beginners looking to improve their opening theory or end-game tactics. It’s a solid, competitive platform that respects the integrity of the game while adding the 'Royale' flair of progression.

Dinsun reviewed on: Thu Feb 26 2026

Features

Real-time and turn-based matches

Over 5,000 tactical puzzles

In-depth performance analytics

Customizable boards and pieces

Tips & Walkthrough

Climbing the Rankings

Start with the 'Puzzles' mode to earn rating points and sharpen your tactics before jumping into 'Blitz' matches. Use the analysis tool after every loss to see where the evaluation bar shifted.

Gameplays

Online Multiplayer

Choose your time control and find an opponent. The game follows standard FIDE rules including castling, en passant, and pawn promotion.

Screenshot

Q&A

Yes, you can play against various AI difficulty levels without an internet connection.

Ratings & Reviews

Shake the Room!

Tue Jan 07 2025 TimIsevil

I love it. Chess is life. The only improvement I would suggest is the ability to put a star, check,highlight certain profiles privately when playing an opponent on games with very unrealistic,unreasonable amounts of what I consider to be inflated, manipulated win percentage, using helpers, AI against other opponents on long form games. Once I play someone I suspect is using helpers, AI I will drag the game out and or force it to stalemate very often. Enjoy 7-14 days of effort and receiving that stalemate. People not playing with their brain only really upset me, and the ability to highlight and or mark their profile after a couple games as no more matches should be optional on anyone with a winning percentage above a certain value,chess rank. This should especially apply to people not using real legit profiles. That’s the only thing I would say. Other than that i stay on chess royale. I think chess . Com is NOT for me.

Loving the app so far - Update

Tue Mar 11 2025 CoolerAj😤😃

Update- I’ve reduced it by a star because of the lack of FairPlay support in this game. I’ve played against people who have played almost perfect games or have near perfect records, I even check the games I’ve played with accused cheater and find out they made 4 brilliant moves in one game… how is the app not catching this? I’m loving the app but there’s ones thing that I absolutely hate. And that’s the ads that play abruptly while you’re playing the game. I tend to play chess in a quiet environment where I’m in my head thinking about my next move, the sound of an ad erupting out of the blue is not only distracting, it’s extremely annoying. You can make a purchase to remove the ads but it’s not every ad I have a problem with it’s just that one specifically. It’s like an annoying tactic to push people to buy the remove ad feature. A little solve if you’re facing this problem: turn the volume all the way down.

Indifferent

Wed Feb 24 2021 GIMLET7ID

This app was referred to me by a friend after playing on other apps with me. I was apprehensive about trying another app. I was initially frustrated but after navigating through it I began to really like it until recently. I’ve lost several games because the game would freeze while it was my turn to make a move forcing me to close the app. When I would return to play I have losses in the archive from games I wasn’t able to complete. Also while waiting for my opponent to load the game crashes and when I log back in the amount of coins it took to play that opponent is deducted from my bank. Lately I can’t even watch the short videos to earn coins or other items available, the game just continues to load and then finally crashes. I really liked this app but considering going back to the other apps that I am displeased with. I may have to wait days for opponents to make a move but at least I’m not being frustrated from the app crashing, loosing coins to no fault of my own, loosing games that I haven’t had a chance to play and the constant loading to no avail.

Good but glitchy app

Wed Dec 15 2021 Dianful

Update: the developer responded to contact support if there’s any issues. I’ve done that before and never heard back, and there’s no way to send a screenshot that way either. I’ve been enjoying this app, especially the puzzles, which are like little chess tutorials and help prepare you for a game. Unfortunately, there are a lot of mistakes. I’ll choose a move to put the opponent in check mate, the app will tell me it’s wrong (the square turns red, and then the piece jumps back to it’s original position), so I’ll scratch my head a while and finally choose to get a hint. Fairly often, the hint suggests the move the app said was wrong—and I’ve started to take screenshots to confirm it. If you choose to get the hint , you have to sit through advertising—this would be ok except the glitches seem to be a way to push excessive advertising. I’m not giving it up, as the puzzles are great, but it is glitchy

You Will Play A Robot If No Player Is Available to Challenge You!

Sun Dec 20 2020 Jade Girl:)

After waiting for a online chess match, you will get assigned to random player, it looks for real at first but after playing only vs online “human” players with about 20 matches during the day, I noticed the same opening, same exact stupid mistakes like “horse takes pawn and pawn takes horse.” And after each mistake the computer generates an emoji responding to you to simulate an actual person sending an emoji during certain moves on the chess board. I’m sorry developers for saying this, you have a great concept to this development and get some pocket money here and there which is all good, but for those who are seeking to play against honest opponents in an online room, this app is not for you. You will get assigned to a bot if there is no available player to play against and 9/10 times you are usually playing a bot.

I hope the developers see this- The amount of ads on this app are unprecedented

Sat Dec 11 2021 DavChess12

This app is amazing for chess players. Has lots of potential but the fun is being ruined by the amount of ads. It’s an ad as soon as you log in and an ad before the game starts and an ad after the game ends…And these ads are up to 30 seconds. Unreal. I’m deleting and coming to back this app sometime in the future hopefully they’ll be less ads and less pop ups. I just want to play chess I don’t care for silly coins and magic wheels. I don’t want the login to take me into puzzles either followed by an ad after I exit. I would give this app 1 star but the only thing that sort of holds up on this app are the servers. I would give that alone a 4.5/10 star rating. Not the best servers you will see but not horrible. Fix the ads, fix the pop ups, fix the ads when you accidentally click a pop up and I will surely give this 5 stars.

Bored out of my mind.

Fri Feb 05 2021 hoover groove

Although some of the games are good, I’m constantly being matched with players on a lower level than myself and also players who either wait until the last second to make a move in a blitz game which drags the game on forever for no other reason than a miss match game. I’ve lost majority of my games by falling asleep waiting for opponents to make the most obvious of moves or when I go to check my opponents “stats”, my time runs out because the game won’t load in time. Loading time, and the unwanted pesty ads make this game not fun to play on this app. I enjoy the rare games when I’m faced with a challenging opponent, and even if I lose I’m enjoying playing chess with someone on my level or better than me. Change the glitches with the game, less ads, or none at all, faster gameplay and consistent gameplay, both players record’s and stats viewable whenever needed. A way to pause in the middle of the game is a great addition.

Incredibly OBNOXIOUS and CONSTANT ADS

Sat Jan 29 2022 sharobimm

I don’t usually go out of my way to review apps but when I finally thought a decent chess app hit the marketplace I was excited. But of course there has to be a catch. This app is CONSTANTLY showing me ads whenever I try to do anything. I can’t even get to the Home Screen without watching some obnoxious ad that takes forever to skip and I’m not going to pay to remove ads so I can enjoy a game of chess. If I switch to a new menu option: watch an ad first. To play a simple blitz game, watch an ad. Just finished a game? Here’s another ad to watch. Enough already. The developers really need to think about their audience when designing these apps because we will get fed up and uninstall it quickly without even giving it a chance. Did I sign up to play chess or watch advertisement videos? The majority of my time spent on this app was watching the ads so don’t expect this app to satisfy your chess needs, you’ll just be wasting your time.