Enjoy a pure, distraction-free chess experience with Just Chess! Includes a built-in engine, UCI support and engine profiles, and a Puzzle Arena with 4M+ puzzles. Lichess integration lets you challenge players, play Chess960, and watch live games and broadcasts.

Public builds
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Counted once we have watched for 90 days (since 21 Oct 2026)
Distinct builds deployed to a game's public (default) Steam branch, as Steam's client network describes them.
Checked within minutes of each Steam change. Observed since 21 Oct 2026.
Source: Steam client network (PICS), App info, public branch. Full methodology
Latest public build
Build 26465698
Update posts
10 postsPosts announcing an update, tagged or not
Posts in a game's official Steam news feed that announce an update: tagged as patch notes by the developer, or plainly about a patch or a released update.
Source: Steam Web API, ISteamNews/GetNewsForApp. Full methodology
Typical gap between builds
3 daysMiddle gap across the last 7 builds we saw
| Build | Went live | Patch notes |
|---|---|---|
| 26465698 | None posted | |
| 26413971 | None posted | |
| 26410345 | None posted | |
| 26407523 | None posted | |
| 26375343 | None posted | |
| 26110507 | Sturdier online connections and an analysis board fix | |
| 25931244 | New feature: Analysis Board |
From Steam’s client network, last checked . Builds before 21 Oct 2026, when we started watching, aren't listed. Patch notes are the developer’s update post from an hour before to a day after the build. Not every build gets one.
| Posted | Update |
|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026 | New feature: Analysis Board Patch notes |
| 21 Sept 2026 | Quality of Life Update: Fading highlights, clock & player names fixes Patch notes |
| 31 Aug 2026 | New: The In-Game Handbook Patch notes |
| 27 Aug 2026 | Major Update – Chess960, Voice Announcements & More! Update |
| 15 Jul 2026 | Small Update – Piece Theme 10 Fix Patch notes |
| 8 Jul 2026 |
| Small Update Patch notes |
| 5 Apr 2026 | Update: Advanced UCI Engine Profile Manager Update |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Update – UI Fix Patch notes |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Update: Move Evaluations, Threat Warnings, and Variation Previews Update |
Steam keeps no record of past build numbers, so before 21 Oct 2026 a game’s update history comes from its own Steam news: posts tagged as patch notes, and untagged posts that plainly announce a patch or a released update. Older posts are still being read in, most played games first. How we count