ChessCraft is a mobile game that can help kids and students learn the rules of chess. The flexible computer opponent can play unlimited chess variants, including specially designed variants for learning.

• Instead of learning all the rules and pieces at once, learn one piece at a time.
• Explore the map by playing the computer on gradually more complicated boards.
• There will never be in-game advertisements.
• An educator can create their own chess boards, and then the learner can play them against the computer opponent.
• Free on Google Play (Android). Full featured and free demo on Steam (PC, Linux). Parents, teachers, students, and kids can ask for a free code for App Store (iOS).
• All offline content is safe for kids. Online community content has age restrictions and content moderation (see below).

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The first level lets you experiment with moving the queen. You'll also quickly learn how pawns move and capture, since losing your queen is immediately game over!

The rest of "chess school island" has similar levels for all classic chess pieces and rules.

Each learning level also has a diagram to visually explain how pieces move, capture, or check and check mate. No reading is necessary.

Once you leave chess school island, the boards slowly include more types of pieces and you can play all computer difficulties. Difficulty 1 can be beaten by kids and new players.

No Ads & Free

ChessCraft will never use in-game advertising. The full-featured version is also free to play. However after lots of play, the game will display an unskippable ten second popup asking you to become a "ChessCraft Patron" for a few dollars. Being a patron simply disables the unskippable popups. The app on iOS is not free so all players are already "patrons".

If the unskippable popups are a problem for any kids or learners, send me an email and I'll share special codes to permanently unlock "ChessCraft Scholar". This is exactly like ChessCraft Patron, but free.

Safe Multiplayer

There is no chat communication when playing an opponent online, just emojis. Also, the game doesn't let you find strangers. You have to share codes with a friend you already know. There's no accounts with private data. In summary: ChessCraft makes it very hard for kids to have anything but a safe experience.

Safe Content

In ChessCraft, users can share custom piece images for chess pieces on the ChessCraft website. See the Content Policy to learn about how content is rated, shared, and moderated.

Keeping community content safe for kids is a top priority. That's why content is moderated in several ways:

• community report features
• manual moderator review
• automated nudity detection in images (very effective)
• automated examination of image content with AI (less effective)
• automated LLM examination of text content (very effective)
• automated LLM examination of text content within images (fairly effective)

If you find user content on this website which you think is inappropriate, rated incorrectly, or violates the Terms of Use you can report it in-app, on the web page, or email us:

Age Verification

If a user tries to access content that is rated Teen (13+) or higher in a web browser or in-app, they must pass a "neutral age screen". This is a style of age verification which does not encourage users to falsify their age to gain access to content. If the submitted age is too young, the user is sent to alternative kid-friendly content.

Web pages with content inappropriate for kids have the Restricted-to-Adults (RTA) tag, so parents can install browser extensions to block those pages.

The date of birth information is not shared and will stay on your device. ChessCraft also doesn't ask for day of birth, just month and year. The date of birth can be set in the "Options" menu.

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This page is written for educators and parents. However you can also visit the main page for general information.