Really Bad Chess

Too many ads!! If I wanted to see this many ads, I would’ve gone to Times Square on New Years Eve

It’s pretty normal in mobile games to just beat you over the head with ads constant, but you get them every time a game ends. You can pay to get rid of the ads, but I’d rather uninstall it and not think about this rather cool, random and pretty fun little game.

This is one of the best pieces of training material I’ve consumed, surprisingly. Within three days, playing this alongside regular boring chess boosted my ELO from around 850 to 1050. If you’re at a beginner/intermediate level, this game actually creates a lot of teachable moments. At higher levels, you have to approach this game with the goal of making something out of nothing. I believe this is something that is easily translatable to regular chess, and ever since playing a bit of ranked RBC at the 60-80 level I’ve noticed major improvements to my chess performance. I went into this assuming it would be a fun mindless arcade game that I’d play when bored, but it has surprisingly become invaluable to my chess performance. Not a huge fan of the paywalls, but the devs gotta eat somehow. This game is up on Apple Arcade if you don’t want paywalls, which has a 3mo trial for new users, so if you can, give it a try. This game is seriously great if you enjoy chess and want to sharpen your skills.

This app is a great way to play chess and relax while using different combinations of pieces on both sides of the board. Is there a way to use it on a Kindle tablet?

Putting ads when you lose is like pissing on a guy with broken arms. No thanks

Enjoying the game however the fun of beating a level is disrupted by the screen going dark. I wish you had more time to revel in the victory and review the final stage of the board. What’s the point of getting a checkmate if you literally don’t even get to look at it?!?!? When you get a checkmate, you should be alerted you win but you can still look at the board and revel in your victory until you decide to finish.

Fun concept, terrible execution because of the AI. The AI moved its king out super aggressively last game and I was able to checkmate it. I had no attack on the king and it just came marching to the middle of the board while it had 5 queens on the back rank. The AI is dumber than stockfish lv 1. I’m obviously not asking for highest level stockfish, but the AI needs to be somewhat competent and try to win for chess to be fun.

At higher rank the game becomes tremendously unfair. I’m at rank 109 and the new board is set up this way. AI: 6 queens (yes, 6!!!), 1 rook, 6 knights and 2 bishops. ME: 5 knights. 2 rooks, 3 bishops, 1 rook and 4 pawns. One more bishop and rook doesn’t balance things out against SIX QUEENS. What’s the point of even playing? Bobby Fischer couldn’t win this game.

The title of this game is really bad chess, and true to its name this is really bad. The graphics are slow and laggy, the good stuff is locked behind a paywall, and the AI is WAY too hard. Would not recommend.

It’s a fun game, but the ads are way too long.