ChessUp

I remember using chessup more than a year ago and indeed could not finish a game. I see there was lots of improvement, from instant Bluetooth connection to the app itself being reworked, as well as translations that now make sense. I now enjoy a lot my ChessUp, waiting for my ChessUp2.

yet to play a single game with the chess up board where there isn’t some sort of breaking bug. often the app goes out of syncs and when you click on sync board to app, all hints turn blue, the player color’s get swapped with no way to correct it , so moving a black piece on the board shows as you moving white. feels like over promised and vastly underdelivered on the app aspect.

To back these people and pay full price for this product only for it to not work on chess.com was heartbreaking, since receiving the product after the constant, constant moving of goal posts to release the product the updates have done nothing to improve the experience. Hardly works on lichess, no chess.com, do you want to teach your children using the learning tools? good luck because nothing has been added past basic moves and concepts. I’m sure they will say chess.com is coming but it will probably take them years like everything else does. So so so disappointed I’m going to sell mine and buy a very nice board instead, I feel completely scammed and cheated, enjoy my money.

Having used it for three weeks, I enjoyed every play. The feature that indicates the best options is fantastic, but for beginners, it should not be enabled to allow them to make errors and think about solutions.

Tech support is very helpful. The board and app work well together on chess.com and lichess, if you are playing a live person on either or the bots on chess.com. It needs to allow positions to be set up on the app that then upload to the board and that is something in the works. For now it’s too cumbersome to make this happen (need to go to external site then export and import it on the app and this is way too many steps). Needs to have more content for lessons and it will be perfect.

Love using ChessUp to play on chess.com and also to play with my kids OTB. Works flawlessly.

I like this board because it’s cool👍🥐

Would really like to have more instructional videos soon!

I’ve had the board for about a year now and have loved it. Being able to play online but away from the screen is fantastic. The recent integration with Chess.com is great and the thing that really puts the board over the top for me. Love the work you all have been putting in. Keep it up!

*****Original! I like the board a lot. I got this to become a better chess player, but you can’t do that without the lessons. Whenever I watch a lesson it randomly stops. I see huge potential and I’m sure ChessUp is doing their best, but perhaps they should just scratch this app and work with chess.com to integrate, promote, sells, sells, sells, everyone wins. *****Update! Ironically the day after I left this review ChessUp got an update and it looks like they are working on integrating chess.com. Also, another feature that I would like to have to help develop AI like thinking is to instead of having one move light up when touching the pieces, but then cycle through likely opponents moves. By cycling through the green squares where one green square blinks at a time, and then opponents squares light up for their most likely move. Then the blinking cycles to the next green square and it lights up the opponents next move. I think this will give an edge in developing move sequences. Thank you. Love seeing the app still getting improvements! Awesome team! Oh and also, the AI seems to only make a beginner move when I use the assistance. When I don’t use assistance, it’s like AI is unbeatable at any AI difficulty. ****update!! Yea the AI is totally imbalanced. It’s making moves that are 3 steps ahead of me on level 100. Lol… I’m so defeated.