Ok
The graphic on the game brilliant, I like the zombies and the crunch and pulling apart as they eat you. The down side is the time you have to complete the puzzle, it’s to quick to physically see everything on the chess board. It would be better to start off slow with more time and get quicker in time to complete the puzzles as you go up levels.
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fix problem
level 23 … won’t let you make 2nd move for mate
Nice
It helps me in chess as I like doing puzzles
Puzzles
Good concept, rough around the edges. If you want to improve at chess, just play Chess.com puzzles, not this. Kinda fun, 3/5.
A good concept
I love the concept of this game. It puts an interesting twist on chess puzzles by making them more engaging. I honestly was having a lot of fun playing this game during the early stages. It is once I get to around level 30 when I am solving mates in 3. There really is not enough time to analyze the position. There are just so many things that need calculated in such little time that is not very fun anymore. What I would is give players the opportunity to click an analyze button on screen when you start the level and then you can calculate the mate. Which also pause the zombies to make it fair.
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Really nice, fun idea/concept
But it gets pretty monotonous after a while.
Having the setting option to change the board style and pieces would be nice (different colors and pieces). Also, the fact that it all the problems have the same amount of time to solve doesn’t seem right. Easier problems should have less time and more difficult problems should have more time.
Having the setting option to change the board style and pieces would be nice (different colors and pieces). Also, the fact that it all the problems have the same amount of time to solve doesn’t seem right. Easier problems should have less time and more difficult problems should have more time.
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Fun quick-fire puzzles
Before you start: change the board to a higher contrast setting. The default board, grey vs slightly darker grey, makes differentiating the pieces difficult.
Cute but trash
No introduction. Rules are simple. But it’s hard to see the pieces apart from each other. In the beginning you should be given more time. I played 10 puzzles before I ever noticed a coin. I still can’t figure out what I’m to jump over.
Too easy
Dear Creators,
This game is fun and has potential, but it has way too many mate in 1 levels. Maybe make harder levels or create a daily challenge?
This game is fun and has potential, but it has way too many mate in 1 levels. Maybe make harder levels or create a daily challenge?
Game mechanic needs work
Assuming you want a fun way to learn how to scan the board quickly for mate options, the game falls down by not allowing you sufficient time to learn from failed attempts. Once you’re out of coins you’re stuck failing quickly over and over, but not gaining the knowledge you need to improve. Lots of comments talk about variants of this issue. Hopefully it’ll get fixed so it’ll be more enjoyable and worthwhile. So close.
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Not a great game, pretty fun though
This game is too predictable, I got faster by just taking a bishop or queen to the spot closest to king, or a back rank checkmate. Wish there was more focus on accuracy and learning than moving an extremely slow person down a path as fast as possible. Good idea/concept though, room to build on it for sure. I will continue playing just because of how much I support chess.com, hope there will be more to this game in the future.
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Juvenile
It feels like a kids game with the animation and simple mating patterns right off the bat. That isn’t a bad thing but having been advertised as a game meant for all its a little disappointing playing the game as an adult. I wish there were more learning value as someone that’s not just starting. Definitely good for someone starting chess though.
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Cool concept! Needs more time to think on later levels
I really love the idea behind this game. It started off really fun, and I like how the levels were initially easy and then grew in difficulty, that makes total sense.
However, I am on level 30 now, and the zombies are eating my character before I even look at the whole board, much less take the time to make three moves on the board for a check mate.
More time to look at the board would be nice, especially on later levels. You could balance the difficulty by having the zombies speed up on a wrong move. Losing a level when I know the answer but don’t have time to move the pieces is very frustrating.
However, I am on level 30 now, and the zombies are eating my character before I even look at the whole board, much less take the time to make three moves on the board for a check mate.
More time to look at the board would be nice, especially on later levels. You could balance the difficulty by having the zombies speed up on a wrong move. Losing a level when I know the answer but don’t have time to move the pieces is very frustrating.
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Too hard for beginner
Unlike the other reviewer i'm a beginner at chess, and some of these feel way too fast. I can't find mate in 1 on a busy board in just a few seconds.
Also you have to disable the music every time you open the app, it doesn't save your settings choices.
Also you have to disable the music every time you open the app, it doesn't save your settings choices.
The time needs difficulty leveling
The first few levels are pretty easy to get through. Just simple mate in ones, twos, and a couple threes. After the first couple of mate in 3 levels however, it becomes extremely difficult to analyze the board in the 5-10 seconds we have.
I think the game definitely needs an easy, normal, and hard mode in it’s time speed. I feel like that would make the game more accessible by both low rated and high rated players. Right now tho, i feel like the game works against low rated players and favors more high rated ones.
I think the game definitely needs an easy, normal, and hard mode in it’s time speed. I feel like that would make the game more accessible by both low rated and high rated players. Right now tho, i feel like the game works against low rated players and favors more high rated ones.
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Good concept, poorly executed
More often than not I’ll make a move that’s correct, but it won’t be accepted by the game. Since one has to make a move in a few seconds, I die, even though I played correctly.
Fun at first
It’s a fun setup. Look forward to future editions. It would be more fun if player kept moving with each correct move, not after the entire puzzle is solved.
Fun
Fun little app for the halloween season. Nice to work on mate in 1s in a different way from standard puzzles.
feels sluggish - needs more customization
animations feel sluggish, need a way to speed up the movement, less animation and effects for the pieces. needs more levels, and more variation in puzzle, maybe, puzzles where your goal is to win material instead of checkmate aswell, such as "win the queen in x moves" as another mode would help
Not a game to learn good habits
I played until I reached the “mate in 3” levels, and I really feel this game is unhelpful and perhaps harmful to chess players wanting to sharpen their skills.
The game doesn’t teach you anything, you don’t have any opportunity to learn from your mistakes. If you play a wrong move it just says WRONG and you have to quickly figure the correct move. If you lose on a puzzle, you don’t even get to see the correct solution.
The biggest flaw with this game is the behavior it rewards. Sure it can be fun to play a fast paced chess game, but how do you beat the game? I progressed very quickly through the levels by simply looking for the most obvious check. Even with the mate in 3s, every move is a check. 90% of the time it’s a back rank mate with a sacrifice or one or two pieces blocking you and then being taken.
The game rewards “scan the board for an obvious check, and then play that move without looking at anything else”.
Unfortunately, I can’t recommend this game to anyone who wants to improve at chess. It’s a cool idea for a game, but it draws out the worst of chess puzzles by forcing you to find an obvious mate without thinking and considering if it’s actually a good move or not.
The game doesn’t teach you anything, you don’t have any opportunity to learn from your mistakes. If you play a wrong move it just says WRONG and you have to quickly figure the correct move. If you lose on a puzzle, you don’t even get to see the correct solution.
The biggest flaw with this game is the behavior it rewards. Sure it can be fun to play a fast paced chess game, but how do you beat the game? I progressed very quickly through the levels by simply looking for the most obvious check. Even with the mate in 3s, every move is a check. 90% of the time it’s a back rank mate with a sacrifice or one or two pieces blocking you and then being taken.
The game rewards “scan the board for an obvious check, and then play that move without looking at anything else”.
Unfortunately, I can’t recommend this game to anyone who wants to improve at chess. It’s a cool idea for a game, but it draws out the worst of chess puzzles by forcing you to find an obvious mate without thinking and considering if it’s actually a good move or not.
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