About Chess Duel
Play chess with nearby friends via local WiFi. Play with your iPhone against a friend with an iPhone. Each player is seeing the board from his point of view (white / black) on the own device. Works on iPhone, iPad and...
Play chess with nearby friends via local WiFi. Play with your iPhone against a friend with an iPhone. Each player is seeing the board from his point of view (white / black) on the own device. Works on iPhone, iPad and iPod. To use the app, you need two devices with iOS 9.3 or newer. There is no engine included, which means that you can not play chess vs. this app. When you start chess duel on two devices, the devices do connect automatically. If WiFi is activated and the devices are nearby or they are on the same WiFi network. You don't need an account. Connection over the internet is not possible. Features - play chess with nearby friends - direct nearby peer to peer connection via WiFi or WiFi network, no chess server involved - automatically connects via wifi - you can safely close the app during a game, chess duel automatically resumes the game when reconnected - on interruption due to a phone call or an incoming message, the game is paused on both devices and resumes when you get back to the app - shows legal moves when you tap a chess piece - does not use gamecenter - no internet connection required - time control: you can setup the chess clock arbitrary for white and black, increment is supported as well - request takebacks, the opponent can accept or decline - give opponent additional time - universal app: iPhone / iPod / iPad - best chess app for nearby connections documentation: snugdev.de/chessduel/documentation.html
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Chess Duel since it was posted on our website on 2016-09-28 04:15:26.
The latest version is 1.5 and it was updated on 2026-06-10 14:58:40. See below the changes in each version.
Chess Duel version 1.5
Updated At: 2026-06-10
Changes: Version History Improved connection. 1.5 05/08/2019 - connection improvements (WiFi and bluetooth)
- if you have ideas to improve Chess Duel: send a mail to
[email protected] 1.4 07/12/2017 New features
- mail games (pgn)
- copy games to clipboard (pgn)
Recent 30 games are available.
Tip of the day:
- some apps (e.g. Stockfish) recognize the pgn in the clipboard and offer to load the game
- you can select multiple games to mail or copy (pgn data of recent 30 games is available)
- games in progress can be copied to the clipboard
- for convenience you can enter your email address in the settings
Thanks to China and UK for the constructive feedback!
If you have more ideas to improve Chess Duel: send a mail to
[email protected]
If you like Chess Duel --> rate it. 1.3 04/14/2015 Thank you all for your great feedback!!!
New with this version
- additional color themes
- better support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus 1.2 02/07/2015 Thank you all for your great feedback!!!
This version comes up with great new features for all chess lovers :-)
- new board color schemes: grey and brown
- move list with figurine notation
- iPad: New Game and Set Chess Clock buttons
- input move via "tap tap" 1.1 09/16/2014 1.0 08/18/2014
Chess Duel version 1.5
Updated At: 2019-05-08
Changes: Improved connection.
Chess Duel version 1.5
Updated At: 2019-05-08
Changes: May 8, 2019 Version 1.5
Improved connection.
Chess Duel version 1.3
Updated At: 2014-08-18
Chess Duel version 1.5
Updated At: 1970-01-01
Changes: 2019年5月8日 Version 1.5
Improved connection.
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