Practice chess on PC

Chess is among the most popular logic games in the world and more and more people decide to use the PC to train, to learn new moves, to study the progress of a game and to check the level of skill achieved after having attended some courses theme.

If we don’t use the PC often and want to play chess, we have collected in this guide the best programs to play chess on computer for free. Most of the reported applications are available directly from Microsoft Storebut in the last chapter we will also show you how to turn the Chess.com site into a PC appwhich is the most famous online chess site in the world.

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1) Real Chess Online

One of the best chess games we can try is Real Chess Online.

With this game we will get very engaging 3D graphics, a clear and simple system to understand how to move every single piece of the chessboard and various levels of difficulty against the PC’s AI; if we feel good we can also challenge other players online, so as to accumulate ELO and get better and better.

2) The Chess Lv.100

Among the most complete programs to play chess on PC we find The Chess Lv.100usable by any player (from novice to grandmaster).

The game allows you to adjust the computer’s ELO experience (from 249 to 2600) and to choose the skill level also based on the simple rule of levels: level 1 is very easy to beat and is very useful for learning the game, while level 100 is in fact a Virtual chess grandmasterextremely difficult to beat even for an expert and trained player.

On a graphic level, the game prefers the display of information to the graphic rendering, but this can be a great advantage, especially if you play online against other players (where the graphic rendering counts up to a certain point).

3) 3D Chess Game

If, on the other hand, we care a lot about graphic rendering and want a game with a realistic 3D chessboard, we can try it 3D Chess Game.

The game is very nice to look at, with nice animations when moving the pieces and a camera that amplifies the 3D effect of the board.

3D Chess Game offers the possibility of organizing games alone against the computer, between two computers and between us and another real opponent, so as to compare ourselves or study the moves of the PC (the challenge between the CPUs is very nice, where in fact we can witness a hard-fought match).

4) Pro Chess Tutorial

For those who start playing chess and want to quickly learn the best moves we can download the application Pro Chess Tutorial.

The app allows you to learn all the notions of chess, shows how to apply the best chess moves and allows you to take advantage of an AI engine to generate the best move in any situation, so as to easily checkmate even against the most difficult opponents to beat .

Pro Chess Tutorial supports the game against the CPU (with variable difficulty level) and also supports AR simulation, so you can see in real time which move to make on the real chessboard simply by photographing and uploading a photo of the game in progress.

5) Chess.com (app web)

The best site to play chess is Chess.com and we can quickly turn it into a PC app using Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.

If we use Google Chrome, all we have to do is open the indicated site, press the three dots at the top right, click on More Tools -> Create Shortcuttick the item Open as window and finally press on Crea to create the web app.

If, on the other hand, we prefer to use Microsoft Edge, all we have to do is open the browser, open the Chess.com site, press on the three dots at the top right, select App -> Install the site as an appconfirm the name shown and choose whether to create the shortcut on the desktop, in the Start menu or on the taskbar.

This trick can be used for any other chess website: we will not have to install anything on the computer but we will still use the best chess sites as if they were apps installed on the PC.

6) Other chess sites

If we want to turn other chess websites into web apps, below we will find a list of the best alternative chess sites to Chess.com:

• Chess.org: famous international chess site where you can find opponents of all levels.
• Lichess.org: completely free, open source and ad-free chess server where we can watch the best chess games or start playing immediately without waiting.
• SparkChess: another excellent site in Italian to learn how to play chess, train against the CPU or face online opponents.
• Chess24: an excellent site in Italian where you can challenge the best artificial intelligences and play online against other challengers in customizable games.
• Chess Tempo: well-structured site where we can challenge both real players in customizable matches and artificial intelligences with various levels of difficulty.

Let’s try all the sites and let’s turn them into web apps on the desktopso you can play it at any time of the day.

Conclusions

Playing chess will definitely make us smarter in the long run: all we have to do is try the best chess applications for pcregularly challenge AI opponents with increasing levels of difficulty and, when ready, try to challenge some real player directly online, using one of the many free servers available on the web.

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