Chess - Free

My 8 year old is just starting out and we find this to be a great app for practicing.

"Failed to connect" message every time I try to play now. It used to work great. What happened? My iOS is up to date all the time. I gave up and installed Chess Online +

Used to work and was clean platform to play a game but too many bugs and too many disconnects anw dose not even get connected. Don’t waste your time

Can’t figure out how to castle.

It’s an okay chess app. But no analysis offered. And I wish it would give an estimate of elo ratings for the difficulty settings. I would estimate the “Novice” difficulty ranking to be close to 1600-1700 elo. Which is not novice… I also wish we had an idea how many moves ahead the engine is thinking. I’m afraid the confusion with “novice,” not truly being a novice play type will turn off new chess enthusiasts. I will give credit where credits is due: this is one of the most difficult chess engines I have played.

Why include the "undo"? Che has always been used as a life learning experience. There are no undo in real life, and this game also doesn't have it according to the real rules of this game. I feel like you turned the game into an unrealistic expectation. Imagine when kids begin playing with other kids or adults who know that chess has no undo. More mass shootings.

Once I load a saved game I can’t analyze it well because there’s only an UNDO button and not a REDO button

Good for playing online. Cant beat computer all the time. Buttons are in Chinese for some reason, the rest is in English. Fixes: Nice if you could chat players you want to play with before actually starting game. Would also be nice if you could save being as guest, for the bought version. I seem to win more games against online players as guest because im more relaxed.

Several times now the computer has made an illegal capture with the same glitch. The computer sometimes takes your pawn by moving its own pawn diagonally to an unoccupied square behind your pawn. The only way to avoid this in your game is to move a different piece. Another review said that this happened to him only once, but this has happened to me multiple times in 25 games.

The computer is so good. I mean, like, crazy good. I can’t win. They need a baby level for those like me who are good but not mastery level. Good luck to everyone who wants to lose their self esteem when it comes to chess