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Chess App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Stalemate when it’s checkmateGood app but continuously ends the game as Stalemate when it’s quite clearly “checkmate”. No good if you’re learning to play. Sort this out techies. It’s not chess if you can’t checkmate !!!!!.Version: 5.5
✓ Great app, few fixesI’m fairly new to chess and I find even on bar up from easy it’s extremely difficult. It’s a skill issue on my part :) but I recommend other apps to learn rather than this one. Another thing I’ve observed was that the game plays odd when checkmate is imminent. It’ll declare a stalemate even when other pieces are able to move. but will continue the game if it’s possible to checkmate you. Example: I was two moves from achieving Smothers Mate, and it had two Pawns and one Rook moving the rook forward would’ve created a path to run forward but instead moved one of its pawns forward essentially blocking himself in on purpose? Never seen a computer do that so I moved Queen to top row and and in one move it would’ve been a checkmate but instead just randomly declared a stalemate. That shocked me until I figured it out it blocked himself in on purpose to declare a stalemate. Some cheap tactics 💀💀💀.Version: 5.5
✓ Decent enough chess gameI love the skin and overall look of the game. But the computer (at highest level) just isn’t good enough for any semi serious players..Version: 5.4
✓ Chess appPuzzle number 53, white mates black in two moves is not possible Must be a mistake or to get people to pay for hints.Version: 5.5
✓ System is wrongCheckmate is not stalemate. Just cause the computer can’t make a move in a puzzle doesn’t make it stalemate, makes it checkmate. Keeps saying it is I still have moves to make but don’t need. Sort it out.Version: 5.4
✓ ChessGood app, but average player will easily beat the computer ( one player option) even when it's on its hardest setting. Good app for 2 player option ( ie playing your friends )..Version: 2.6
✓ Poor design of the pieces!Poor extremely hard to make the difference between Pawns and a Bishop on iPhone 13 mini … previous one was better Very poor !.Version: 5.5
✓ Broken GameMarks matches as stalemate when victory is a move or two away.Version: 5.6
✓ ChessI kept having multiple moves and it kept giving the wins to the computer.Version: 5.5
✓ Fun, but glitchyFor some reason if you try to play this game while on the phone, the screen fails to align properly. It responds as though you’ve tapped half an inch away or so from where you actually did. You can’t adjust settings or move pieces pretty much at all. This makes the game impossible to play if you’re chatting on the phone at the same time..Version: 5.4
✓ StalemateEvery time you get on top stalemate is called please really.Version: 5.5
✓ Bugs in puzzlesSome of the puzzles have bugs in which invisible pieces move or simply disappear after certain moves are made. Furthermore, by not allowing users to replay puzzles their ability to re-use previous puzzles as a tool for beating harder ones is completely negated. The overall game is good for beginners ( which I am) and has a good User Interface and polished graphics to go along with it. It could do with an undo button that allows one to go back moves after a stalemate or checkmate. Furthermore it would also be good if hints used in puzzles would remain highlighted. Once you use a hint it disappears and if you forgot the suggested move then it’ll cost you another hint for a reminder. All in all, very good, but needs to address a couple of issues to be flawless..Version: 5.4
✓ What is this pooI play chess with my son and I am very disappointed in the game what is this rubbish about you should make it way better.Version: 5.5
✓ DecentIt’s a good pass time - the ‘hard level’ is not hard…but interface is nice.Version: 5.5
✓ Bad aiI was playing agains the hardest ai, and it kept checking me back and forth softlocking the game, i would try every different outcome and it would just check me back and forth no matter what, in actual chess there is a rule where after the 3rd exact same set of moves are played, the game ends in a draw. please fix this game, the ai is not fun. 👎.Version: 5.5
✓ ProblemDuring the chess game if you are in check and the piece that is threatening you is In front of you, you are unable to take that piece. TF? How does that make sense.Version: 5.5
✓ Poorly programmed- Doesn’t allow under-promotion. - Opening book fails completely as White; typical opening on Hard: 1 Nc3 e5 2 Nd5 c6 3 Ne3 d5 with enormous advantage for Black. (Plays a decent closed Ruy Lopez as Black, but handles the middlegame poorly.) - Doesn’t defend tenaciously on Hard; often allows easy mates rather than playing on a piece down; often allows easy traps. - These comments are based on about 25 games on No Time Limit..Version: 5.4
✓ Surprisingly good puzzlesLike many of the chess games in Apple’s App Store, the chess engine is best suited to beginners. The chess engine challenged me at the highest difficulty level, but I’m rusty; I haven’t played in 20 years (My chess rating was in the intermediate to advanced range back then). The real gem in this game are the puzzles. They are mostly one and two move checkmate problems. Some of these puzzles can challenge intermediate and advanced players. I gave the star rating for the puzzles, not the game play. I have three complaints about the puzzles. The first complaint is that you cannot replay a puzzle once you solve it,so you can’t explore alternate moves. The second is that only 4 of the puzzles are unlocked at any one time. So if you get to the point where you can’t solve any of the 4 unlocked puzzles, you’re stuck. And that leads to my third complaint. You can ask for a hint 5 times. After that, if you want more hints you pay. Dearly. Would you pay $70, or $100 for hints? Or would you go to the Amazon or Indigo bookstore and buy half a dozen chess books and ebooks for the same price, covering chess openings, chess combinations, puzzles, strategy, and more? The puzzles are great but I would not be willing to spend more than $5 to unlock all the hints. So work out the puzzles yourself or with friends. Spend your money more wisely on chess books..Version: 5.5
✓ One smelly thingStill the best chess app there is, but only one thing that makes it not so great. It’s that when I’m just about to win, the program says “stalemate”, and stops the game, happened so many times. And when it’s obviously a stalemate, when it’s only white king and black king left on the board (nothing else left!), it doesn’t say “stalemate”. Just lets us keep playing. If this app loves saying stalemate so much, please say it on this occasion. Thanks.Version: 5.5
✓ Good funIt’s okay up to a point , but the computer makes errors and seems to take pieces which are unprotected, without seeing that there is a reason for it . This is even on ‘ hard ‘ mode . Having said that , it passes time with ease . Is it fun ? Oh yes !.Version: 5.5
✓ Good, could be betterGood graphics, no unnecessary bells and whistles, but the program has annoying flaws. The computer exhibits very little variety in openings, makes silly mistakes even in “hard” mode, and in the endgame it makes nonsensical moves, like having the opposing king head for a corner instead of trying to block an advancing pawn. Not for serious players, I’m afraid..Version: 5.5
✓ Absolutely shame - Stop making people foolThe game is not chess. It is not designed according to the chess rules..Version: 5.5
✓ Fun but really easyThe only challenging thing about this app is the puzzles. The robot you play against sucks in all difficulties. The hardest difficulty blundered mate in 1 earlier today. If you are bored, this is a great app , but if you are trying to get better, find another app..Version: 5.5
✓ Not real chessThe rules are not the real rules.Version: 5.5
✓ Fine for beginners.This is a no frills chess APP. On the plus side there are no annoying ads. On the negative, the chess engine is not very powerful. I routinely beat the hardest level. Also the programming doesn’t have all the rules. The APP does not recognize draw by three-fold repetition. The computer opponent will always trade equal pieces. After a game is over you can’t undo moves or replay the game through the APP..Version: 5.5
✓ Decent App but needs better functionalityThe app is nice, and I enjoy the puzzles section, however it is poorly designed. I should be able to undo a move after stalemate rather than return to main menu first. Also should be able to replay finished puzzles to analyze solution..Version: 5.5
✓ LindsayhamiltonSomehow my Apple 6 can’t be used to play real games of Chess since I installed this game. I will play on my PC instead..Version: 5.5
✓ It’s okIt’s nice but the hint is not a hint it doesn’t help cause each time I use hint I lose.Version: 5.5
✓ The App refuses to loose gracefullyThe App chooses its moves based on the probability of success. If it determines that it can not win, the App will attempt to put you in a revolving door of “check” positions or move for a stalemate. I can understand the stalemate as in a tournament, a stalemate at least allows for each player to receive a point. At least in the tournaments I have played in. However, having the App move it’s pieces continuously back and forth without being able to win, is pointless. It just makes the game go on and on unending. I’m not Mathew Broderick and this isn’t a game of Global ThermoNuclear War. There shouldn’t be a no win situation or at least a no stalemate situation. The App needs to be programmed to lose as much as it is programmed to win. If the pieces the App has to use can not put the player into checkmate, the App should not be able to continually put the player into “check” basically forcing a new game to be started..Version: 5.5
✓ GarbageI love how the computer doesn’t like to lose, so when you are close to a checkmate all of a sudden it says stalemate instead..Version: 5.5
✓ Too basicYou’ll get better value using chess.com that is also free, still good but there is better.Version: 5.5
✓ Chess1 star if u get a pawn to the other side it turns instantly into a queen.Version: 5.5
✓ BadSome of the pieces were disappearing of the board for no reason at all. Also I am a beginner but I find it hard to beat. As there is a unlimited health button I ran a experiment to see if the computer could beat itself. It couldn’t and I ended up loosing..Version: 5.5
✓ StalemateI like the game but I don’t like getting all the way to the end of a good match & it says STALEMATE! When I clearly have checkmate!!.Version: 5.5
✓ Quiz is no logically accurateIn almost any case scenario presented by the quiz mode, check can be done upon the player’s king. For that matter, it is not possible to logically win in a two move strategy. If I do a first move, computer can check my king. Then, I have to bring my king to safety, and lose my two move chance. Secondly, To win in a two move sequence, I have to guess accurately. what is the next move the computer will do? This is often enough a random move. That means I have a random, and not a logical chance to win. Accuracy is premium when playing chess. Quizzes do not present an accurate scenario to win in a two move strategy. The app also charge money to give you fixed clues. It is a scam..Version: 5.4
✓ Nice but no learning toolsA decent game for casual players, but not very good for learning to play..Version: 5.5
✓ Constant ads ruin a good appThe puzzles are fun but when you get stuck you have to buy hints. Which I can accept, but the relentless ads after every single puzzle solve is asinine. If I’m paying, get rid of g#% da#%n ads! It’s pathetic to see how the apps have degenerated over the years..Version: 5.5
✓ Wrong formatIt seems to only play in portrait,I would have preferred landscape, so sadly had to delete.Version: 5.5
✓ Illegal movesMade multiple moves in one go..Version: 5.4
✓ ChessPossibly too easy even on hard.Version: 5.5
✓ Bug in the PuzzlesOverall a good solid app with great puzzles. Unfortunately puzzle #344 is unsolvable. The app has it as a two-mover but it is a three-move puzzle. Hopefully an update addresses this..Version: 5.5
✓ Good not greatPuzzles are good. UI is very good. I wish the pieces had more contrast. The gradient colors in both both sides tend to be hard to see. Overall, the computer engine on hard was pretty easy. Computer made too many mistakes and did the same strategy over and over..Version: 5.5
✓ Good game but annoyingGreat game you can change the board and pieces to look differently plus there’s a hint option which helps me learn. Unfortunately I can’t play it anymore because for no reason it will stop the game and say “stalemate”. I had 2 bishops, 2 rooks, my queen, and 2 pawns whereas the computer only had its king left. I checkmated the king, “Stalemate” pops up an I can’t finish the game. Too annoying and it happened for the last time. Now deleting this app for the many other chess apps.Version: 5.4
✓ Stale mate .Every time I have a queen and my opponent has just the king left . Every time I go into a check mate it tells me it’s a stale mate . Which is false.Version: 5.5
✓ Good but super easyThis app is alright, but the computer even on hard is utter garbage. I’m a 2100 player and have managed to win games with 4, 5 even 6 queens during the endgame. Would love to see more difficulty build in (although I understand you may not be able to implement stock fish or other engines) Other than that this app is very good.Version: 5.5
✓ Phil says cool game.Way cool game..Version: 2.4
✓ Bad gameI was playing one player and I played for so long after the other items died and it was only my king and the robots king. It didn’t say stalemate even though it was stalemate. It frustrates me that I played for Soo long and the game doesn’t even admit to stalemate..Version: 5.5
✓ Pretty goodIt’s a good game but it wont let you move your king where it will be taken. Also, when the game is long it counts as a tie..Version: 5.5
✓ Good app only one weaknessThis is a good app and I use it a lot. I do find it frustrating though when I end in stalemate but the game closes instantly so I am unable to see the reason.Version: 5.4
✓ Nice gameI couldn't give this game 5 stars because the stalemate feature of this game drives me up the wall!! Otherwise it's a great little game..Version: 5.4
✓ Annoyingly more than chessThis app is called Chess and not surprisingly I bought it to play chess. Unfortunately every single time I use it, the app wants me to play a different game and no matter how many times I decline, it still wants me to play different games. Every. Single. Time! It’s really annoying when I really only want to play chess and I’m looking for another app.Version: 5.5
✓ Not great. Not bad. Needs ........ a few tweaks: 1) the undo function should not go back two moves, but just one; 2) there should be a re-do function; 3) the volume should adjust with the device volume selector (rather than only on/off); 4) the piece movement should be faster; 5) the computer should stop the game at stalemate. That said, the graphics are nice. However, and this is a bigger fix, the AI is very predictable and plays essentially the same game all the time, even on “Hard.” Def needs some work there. With all that, this is very good ... for beginners and novices..Version: 5.4
✓ GoodIts good but when your playing against the computer it makes its move instantly which makes it very hard to win on a five minute timer.Version: 5.5
✓ HiI am getting better at it. But the easy is to easy and hard is impossibale.Version: 5.5
✓ Puzzle 15Puzzle 15 is only possible if black blunders..Version: 5.5
✓ Worst game ive ever playedI’m great at chess. Ive played my entire life. This game will make it so you sit for 15 minutes playing, chasing their guys around and the SECOND you are about to hit check mate it says “stalemate” its brutal. Even in the easiest setting. Once they get down to one pawn or one defensive it turns off. Absolutely incredible and frustrating, never written a review before on an app. This was a terrible experience..Version: 5.5
✓ Amazing but they got a rule wrongThe game itself is amazing however they got the positioning of the king and queen the wrong way round- the king is supposed to be on its colour but it isn’t on this app. Apart for that small issue it’s brilliant..Version: 5.5
✓ BugWorks fine 90% of the time. But there is a bug that lets opponent pawns take pawns diagonally when they are besides the each other..Version: 5.5
✓ GlitchyI love that this app is free but the pawns are quite glitchy. Specifically when you move a pawn 2 spaces forward, the app sees it as one space and would take your pawn and land on an empty space. Eg: P d2-d4, P e4- x d3 Pretty much ruins the game..Version: 5.5
✓ GarbageEvery time the opponent/computer is on the verge of loosing, it stops the game and says “stalemate” but yet when the opponent/computer is winning it never says stalemate for the player. Complete garbage. Puzzles… buy hints? Really. Do not download this trash chess game.Version: 5.5
✓ 3 starsI really enjoy this game where you can play on 1 and 2 player mode with a variety of difficulty’s and the puzzles make it really entertaining and keeps the game to my mind but what I don’t like about this game is that when you play this game on a high difficulty, they won’t stop putting you on check, it’ll just stay forever to make us lose which is fine that’s how games work but this game is not fun when you keep putting our pieces in check trying to get every piece eliminated and win in an aggressive way. My suggestions is that instead of it just being a queen when a pond makes it to the end of the board, let us decide what we want to piece to be, some people might want knights instead of going straight and diagonal..Version: 5.6
✓ BadI have stomach cancer now.Version: 5.5
✓ This game cheats during stalematesUpdate: It just did it again! It had the upper hand and I had 4 back and forth moves (8 total moves) with no stalemate. Then I was able to corner 2 of its 4 remaining pieces, corner it’s king in the corner and it tried to block with its last remaining rook. I took the rook and it immediately declared a stalemate! There were NO repetitive moves during the last 40 moves of the game and I was ONE MOVE from forcing Checkmate with its only remaining piece, it’s king. This game cheats! If this game has me on the run and there’s only a few pieces left, I have actually made over FIFTY back and forth moves and it NEVER calls or allows for a stalemate to be declared. However, if I have the computer on the run, if the computer is down to 1 or 2 pieces left, after just a few moves, sometimes 3 TOTAL moves (mine and the computer totaled) in any direction, it declares a stalemate. Those moves normally aren’t repetitive moves like a real stalemate should be. On numerous occasions, I’ve had the upper hand and have been moving to box in or row compress the computer’s king into checkmate when the computer calls a stalemate even though there have been zero repetitive movements. (This has been happening with the difficulty setting at normal.) In other words, this game cheats when it’s losing. The developer of this app needs to fix this issue..Version: 5.4
✓ Doesn’t follow the rules of ChessThe game would not let me king side castle even when it was a legal and available move. Don’t bother with this app if you want to learn strategy..Version: 5.5
✓ 3/5Game is ok, being a chess game and a strategy game the developers obviously just took game plays and made an app. Puzzles The puzzles have sideways taking pawns in a lot of glitches not just the ones stated. if you fail a level it says play again and takes you back to main menu, should maybe have a main menu or play again button saves taking 5 clicks to play again starting from main menu so really it’s not a play again button just miss spelt main menu..Version: 5.5
✓ Full of illegal movesThis game cheats on a constant basis. It will declare a stalemate when no stalemate occurs, and it will make a legal pawn moves on a regular basis. If this is what it takes for a computer to beat me, I want no part of this chess particular chess game..Version: 5.6
✓ Good to learn onBeat it on all levels. I’m not that great of a player. I am maybe a 800-1000 rating. Great to learn on..Version: 5.5
✓ StalemateThis game doesn’t know the right time to call stalemate.. I have 3 games where once I was set up to win the game it called stalemate even though there was not the same move repeated 3 times.. It’s like the computer just does not want to lose so it throws a fit and calls stalemate instead of letting you win...Version: 5.5
✓ Not goodDuring certain points I’ve noticed the AI does moves to prevent losing its queen which aren’t possible nor condonable in chess..Version: 5.5
✓ Very weak program/appThe highest difficulty level is not difficult at all. The chess puzzles were fun until I noticed they are not true puzzles. There is not one true solution for some of them. In order to solve some of them, the computer has to make a mistake, but you can’t predict that until you try several different moves to see what the computer does first. So it becomes a guessing game not a puzzle based on logic..Version: 5.4
✓ Sore loser computerEvery time you back the computer into a corner it declares a stalemate… junk.Version: 5.5
✓ Illegal movesNot a bad chess game. Would have given 5 but the Ai made a few illegal moves which got frustrating as there is no point in planning ahead as it could be pointless..Version: 5.3
✓ ImpossibleAny mode I choose, its always impossible. Once I get further into the game, the game makes my chess pieces rattle to indicate to move them and it wont let me move any other piece... and when I do get to move any other piece, it limits my options for moving a piece! For example, a knight can move in an L shape, but the game limits my move to one direction when I can move my knight many other directions! It also cheats by doing this: So bishops, queens, and rooks all have one thing in common. You can move then how many spaces you want, but only in a certain direction. Well, this game doesn’t DO that! If I wanted to move my queen how many spaces I wanted to, the game would make me move to a random square! I cannot beat the AI, and I cant do 2 player because I have no one to play with, so this game is literally trash to me. Im downloading another chess game, oh, and THANKS for being the worst chess app EVER..Version: 5.5
✓ AI CheatsDecent game but the ai legit will cheat and either move multiple pieces in one turn on occasion, or randomly removes your piece somehow, even screen recorded for video evidence cause I couldn’t believe this joke.Version: 5.5
✓ TerribleSo computer can do moves but you can't. Also glitches where you can't control a piece when in real world you can..Version: 5.5
✓ ChessRepeat moves should be removed if more than three.Version: 5.4
✓ …….Version: 5.5
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