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onChess - A Free Social Chess on Windows Pc

Developed By: A Digital Tree

License: Free

Rating: 3,9/5 - 450 votes

Last Updated: December 27, 2023

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

Game Details

Version 2.0.3
Size 3.7 MB
Release Date January 25, 23
Category Board Games

Game Permissions:
Allows applications to access information about networks. [see more (8)]

What's New:
Server stats (for the last 6 months):- Over 10.000 games played.- More than 150.000 moves made.Thanks a lot for playing! [see more]

Description from Developer:
Play chess online with your friends!
Meet new friends with onChess!

onChess is back, and ad-free!

With onChess you can play chess games with your friends, anywhere and anytime. I... [read more]

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About this game

On this page you can download onChess - A Free Social Chess and play on Windows PC. onChess - A Free Social Chess is free Board game, developed by A Digital Tree. Latest version of onChess - A Free Social Chess is 2.0.3, was released on 2023-01-25 (updated on 2023-12-27). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 10,000. Overall rating of onChess - A Free Social Chess is 3,9. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This game had been rated by 450 users, 235 users had rated it 5*, 54 users had rated it 1*.

How to play onChess - A Free Social Chess on Windows?

Instruction on how to play onChess - A Free Social Chess on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install onChess - A Free Social Chess on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this game on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Step By Step Guide To Play onChess - A Free Social Chess using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "onChess - A Free Social Chess" icon on the home screen to start playing, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to play onChess - A Free Social Chess on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "onChess - A Free Social Chess" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Download older versions

Other versions available: 2.0.3.

Download onChess - A Free Social Chess 2.0.3 on Windows PC – 3.7 MB

Play chess online with your friends!
Meet new friends with onChess!

onChess is back, and ad-free!

With onChess you can play chess games with your friends, anywhere and anytime. Invite your friends, make your moves, review your finished games, and your friends' too!

Create a full profile or register as an anonymous player and begin playing... and if you like onChess, upgrade your anonymous profile anytime! Of course, both kinds of profiles are free.

Meet new opponents and invite them, or make your profile public and receive invitations from people around the world. Full profiles can change their public status anytime, anonymous profiles will always be public.

onChess will fill your opponents contact list with:
- Your registered phone contacts (only the phone ones, we don't use the SIM card contacts).
- Anyone that have sent you an invitation you have accepted.
- Anyone you have invited that have accepted the invitation.
The more you play, the more opponents you will have for choosing!

onChess will instantly send and notify all your invitations and moves to your opponents. You can also chat while playing, and share your results on social networks or by e-mail.


FEATURES:

- Online chess games with friends.
- Multiplayer chess games with other people around the world.
- Review your opponents profiles and last played games.
- Create a full profile or play anonymous. Upgrade your anonymous profile for free anytime.
- Become public and receive invitations from people around the world. If you have a full profile and get tired, make yourself private again, anytime. Anonymous profiles will always be public.
- Block invitations from contacts, in case you need a rest...
- In game chat, only available for full profiles.
- Review finished games and learn from your mistakes, and your opponents'.
- Share your games. To avoid cheating, only finished games are available for sharing.
- Educational and easy to use.
- It's free!


GAME EXPIRATION:

All games without activity in one week will expire:
- Invitations will expire after a week without answer. Pending invitations will be rejected.
- Games in progress will expire after a day, a week or a month without moves, depending on the game mode. The player who should have moved will abandon and lose the game.


HARDCORE PLAYERS:

You can play onChess in a casual or hardcore way, you decide.

As a suggestion: if you are a hardcore player and want to play with other hardcore players, please add a plus character "+" before your nickname.


If you experience any problem, or are already registered with a full profile and want to change your nick, clear the onChess game data and register again using the same phone number, all your games will synchronize with the server data (only for full profiles).


PERMISSIONS:

- android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE. Used to check internet connection.
- android.permission.INTERNET. Used to communicate with the game servers.
- android.permission.READ_CONTACTS. Used to search for registered contacts.
- android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE. Used to store the contact images.

Other permissions required by GCM (push):
- com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE
- android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS
- android.permission.WAKE_LOCK


OTHER:

onChess uses GCM push messages. To work properly, onChess must be installed in the internal memory and always running... take care with task killers!



We love to hear from our players. If you have an idea that can make onChess better, anything you don't like or just want to drop us a message, send us an e-mail... your opinion matters! And if you like (or don't... sigh) onChess, please make a review!

We hope you enjoy the game.

A Digital Tree
@adigitaltree
Server stats (for the last 6 months):
- Over 10.000 games played.
- More than 150.000 moves made.
Thanks a lot for playing!
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to read the user's call log.