Comparison

Chess Premium+ vs Chess

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Chess Premium+

Master chess with a powerful, free application. Play against a top engine, solve daily puzzles, and analyze your games with advanced AI. Offers a complete chess experience without ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Play against Stockfish 18 engine
  • Daily chess puzzles
  • Advanced game analysis
  • Custom position editor
  • Multiple AI opponents
  • Achievement system
  • Offline gameplay
Features
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Chess Premium+ is a modern, powerful, and completely free chess app designed for players of every skill level. Whether you're learning the basics, sharpening your tactics, or challenging one of the world's strongest chess engines, Chess Premium+ provides everything you need in one elegant experience. Powered by Stockfish 18, the app delivers fast, accurate, and reliable chess analysis while maintaining smooth performance and responsive gameplay. Play complete chess games, solve tactical puzzles, create custom positions, and improve your decision-making with advanced AI—all without subscriptions or advertisements. FEATURES • Play Against Stockfish 18 Challenge one of the world's strongest chess engines with adjustable AI strength suitable for beginners through advanced players. • Daily Chess Puzzles Improve tactical vision, calculation, pattern recognition, and checkmating skills with new chess challenges. • Advanced Game Analysis Review completed games, discover mistakes, analyze critical positions, and learn stronger continuations using Stockfish 18. • Position Editor Create any custom chess position, test opening ideas, practice endgames, or explore tactical scenarios with full engine support. • Multiple AI Opponents Play against balanced, aggressive, defensive, and positional AI personalities for a varied training experience. • Achievement System Unlock trophies, complete milestones, and track your progress as you improve your chess skills. • Optimized Performance Enjoy fast engine calculations, smooth animations, responsive controls, and a stable chess experience designed for long playing sessions. WHY CHESS PREMIUM+ • 100% Free • No Advertisements • No Subscription Required • Offline Gameplay • Stockfish 18 Engine • Daily Chess Puzzles • Position Editor • Game Analysis • Modern Premium Interface • Optimized Performance Whether you want to play chess, solve puzzles, analyze games, study openings, practice endgames, or simply improve your skills, Chess Premium+ provides a complete chess experience in one beautifully designed application. Download Chess Premium+ today and start mastering chess for free.

About

Chess

Engage in chess matches with a unique AI opponent that converses with you, offering commentary and personality. This offline game features a powerful local LLM for dynamic interactions and a robust chess engine with adjustable difficulty.

Highlights
  • AI opponent with personality
  • Local LLM for chat
  • Stockfish chess engine
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
  • Offline play
  • Full chess rules
  • Animated reactions
Features
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Chess-Buddy is a chess game where your computer opponent also talks with you using a powerful local LLM, Qwen 3 trained at 1.7 Billion parameters. This Chat system has been wrapped and designed to conform to this game giving a dynamic personality to the gameplay that feels alive and rich with a friendly buddy to play with. I like playing chess on my phone but I really like playing with a person. This isn't quite as nice as playing casual chess with a friend but it's pretty nice. Play chess against a real engine (the chess side of the AI is running on stockfish, the leading open source chess engine that everyone agrees is really great, with also selectable difficulty levels). After almost every move, Buddy reacts — with a short line, a funny face might happen, and occasionally a little shade. You can chat freely between moves too. Buddy will respond. It's less like playing against a computer and more like playing against a friend who happens to be very good at chess but awkward at conversation, Not to say it is a bad chat LLM it's just not set up to work like a personal assistant anymore, the conversation is with a LLM that is essentially now Chess-Buddy. Everything runs on your phone. No internet required. No account. No ads. No subscription. The chess engine and Buddy's brain are built in. --- CHESS • Full rules: all legal moves, castling, en passant, pawn promotion with a piece picker • Four difficulty levels — Friendly (800), Casual (1200), Competitive (1600), Expert (2200) • Undo moves and reset anytime • Game saves automatically — pick up exactly where you left off BUDDY • Reacts to the game with short, personality-driven commentary • 11 animated face states — Buddy goes mindblown when something wild happens • Chat freely: ask for help, vent about your last move, just hang out • Runs entirely on-device with a local AI model — no data leaves your phone DESIGN • Bright, friendly, cartoon — not a dark chess robot • Tap or drag pieces, whichever feels natural • Haptic feedback for captures, check, and checkmate • One screen. No menus to get lost in. ChessBuddy is made by Adrondak LLC. Chess engine: Stockfish (GPL v3) — stockfishchess.org Personality model: Qwen3-1.7B (Apache 2.0) — Qwen Team / Alibaba Cloud Inference runtime: llama.cpp (MIT) — Georgi Gerganov

Screenshots

Chess Premium+4 screens
Chess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Chess at 17.0 against Chess Premium+'s 26.2. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chess Premium+ against 5.0 for Chess. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Chess Premium+ versus Chess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess Premium+Chess
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB1.3 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYusuf OZCANAdrondak LLC

In-app purchases

None

Chess Premium+

No in-app purchases

None

Chess

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chess Premium+ free?
Chess Premium+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess free?
Chess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Chess Premium+ or Chess?
Chess Premium+ and Chess are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Chess Premium+ or Chess have ads?
Neither Chess Premium+ nor Chess shows ads.

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