Chess User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience48.6% of reviews
Neutral5.7% of reviews
Negative experience45.7% of reviews

~ Based on 35 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Chess Safe?

Chess - Free has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Chess is 64/100.

This assessment is based on 75 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.1/5.

Safety Analysis

49.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
10.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
40.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 75 App Store ratings for Chess.

Is Chess Legit?

Chess - Free appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Chess is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Chess

At first it was lovely but after a few months it started glitching and not moving pieces

Need to fix

Every time I try to play this game it’s lags and glitches and I have to close the game to play whenever I move a chess piece it lags and it is pretty much unplayable.

trash

worst app ever known to donut.

Great app

Please update app very good app but need to online game

Failed to connect.

"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 +

Worst of all chess games on line

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

Can’t figure out how to castle.

Difficulty ratings are confusing

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.
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Undo doesn't exist in real chess

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.
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By player

Very challenging game and very great

Needs REDO button

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

Nice online chess game

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.
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Recurring Illegal Move

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.
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I stink at this

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

Please update

Very nice, please update.

I Forgot

Since watching Queens Gambit, my chess bug once lost has been found. However on this app, when set to the expert level, if it senses it might get beat, it cheats with illegal moves. I’m sure the developer grew tired but if the app doesn’t play straight up chess, it’s a waste of time. Really disappointed because I forgot this app did this and why I deleted a long time ago. Let me know when you fix the bugs.
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Pawn poor

Most of the gameplay is very good. However, in the end game stages when pawns are in play, taking of pawns is not correct. Pawns are taken by the game when on adjacent squares rather than on diagonals.

Illegal move

Out of the blue the computer moved a pawn forward one square on the diagonal, it was just a move not a capture, I hit the reply and the piece continued to make the move repeatedly, not repeated in subsequent games, FYI

Wow...

So I’m a pretty serious chess player, and I’m really really into computer chess/engine chess... when I get bored I’ll download a bunch of random chess apps and play them against each other at their highest difficulty, in little engine/chess bot tourneys.. I always play the winner against Stockfish (11, not 12 which I know is the newest and best, but v.11 is still a world renowned chess software amongst players and the computer chess world, elite engine nonetheless, certainly a 3000+ Elo I would assume...) This app one it’s little tourney and in the 3 games vs Stockfish that it played (1 white, 1 black, then one random) it one its first game with the white pieces in an AMAZING! Passed pawn pushing end game. It drew the 2nd game with black, and it drew the 3rd game with white... incredible. I’ve seen some of these apps perform very well vs Stockfish and even force some draws here and there with the white pieces, but I’ve NEVER!!! Seen an app beat that engine, and I’ve NEVER!!! Seen results other than a loss with the black pieces... Amazing stuff...
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GAME BREAKING BUG

I thought this app was 5* until I realised there is a massive bug in the game. If you move a pawn from H2 to H4, and an opponent pawn is on G4, the opponent’s pawn then moves to H5 and takes your pawn on H4! An illegal move and it there’s clearly something wrong in the code.

This may seem trivial but its game breaking and until the devs fix this, I cannot even begin to contemplate giving the 5* this game otherwise deserves.
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