# Chess - Offline Board Game — user reviews > 1,214 indexed App Store user reviews of Chess by GamoVation, rated 4.90/5 from 65,804 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-offline-board-game/id1591188795/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-offline-board-game/id1591188795.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 62,674 · 4★ 1,753 · 3★ 434 · 2★ 225 · 1★ 718 ## What do users think of Chess? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Great game for beginners - 🚀 Smooth gameplay - 💡 Helpful hints and learning features - 👍 Variety of difficulty levels - 👍 Offline play option **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent stalemate issues - 🔍 Difficulty level jumps too high - 🔍 Puzzles have limited solutions - 🔍 Ads are intrusive and frequent - 🔍 Paid ad removal doesn't work as expected **Commonly reported bugs** - Illegal piece captures - Incorrect stalemate and draw detection - Inconsistent performance and crashes **Most requested features** - Online multiplayer mode - Ability to disable stalemate detection - More gradual difficulty progression - Customization options for board and pieces ## Newest reviews (11 of 1,214) ### 2/5 — Won’t let me win *2026-08-15, version 2.8.4* So I have had this game for a while, to go on to harder levels you have to win. But I have multiple screenshots of me having almost all my pieces while the computer only has the king. And yet according to the game this equals a draw. Every time I am about to win it calls a draw, but it has no problem calling me a loser when I don’t win. ### 3/5 — Ads ruin the game *2026-08-05, version 2.8.4* I like the app for playing and learning chess. The problem is the ads. Sometimes there’s no way to get out of them. I just wait and wait for the x to pop up and the only thing it offers is to open the App Store for the game it’s advertising. ### 4/5 — Good game *2026-08-05, version 2.8.4* Its pretty good and fun but nothing serious fun it’s offline at least ### 2/5 — Ads! *2026-08-04, version 2.8.4* Ridiculous amount of ads. I want to play chess not five different games. ### 2/5 — Werbung oder Nötigung? *2026-08-02* Eigentlich ein schönes Spiel und ich habe nichts gegen Werbung für andere Spiele. Das muss letztlich ja auch finanziert werden. ABER leider konnte ich wiederholt nachdem ich die Werbung gesehen hatte, nicht normal zum Schachspiel zurückkehren. Es gab nur zwei Optionen, entweder die das beworbene Spiel herunterladen, oder - wenn man aus der Endlosschlaufe herauswollte - das Schachspiel beenden und neu starten. Leider wurde dann viel zu oft die gleiche Werbung mit dem gleichen Ergebnis gezeigt. Also habe ich das Schachspiel wieder glöscht. Schade eigentlich. ### 2/5 — Paid for no ads, and get tons of ads *2026-07-26, version 2.8.4* I paid for no ads, yet I still have to watch very long ads. And it’s so sneaky. Yes I’m sure there are LESS ads than if u don’t pay, but when you’re close to winning, it’s calls a stalemate and asks if it want to retry your last move. You say yes, then you have to watch, no joke, like a 3 minute ad. It looks like countless people have same issues. Wish I read the reviews. ### 1/5 — Oi *2026-07-26, version 2.8.4* Look my friend is good and I mean good but the beginner stage was to much and yet it is still close to 5 stars so anyone who agrees with me you should be the goat ### 1/5 — 광고제거가 안됨 *2026-07-25* 아이가 하는데 광고가 너무 많이 떠서 결제하고 광고 제거했는데도 계속 광고가 뜹니다…뭔가요 이게 ### 4/5 — Paid for no ads *2026-07-25, version 2.8.4* Paid £2.99 for no ads, took my money, still got ads. Tried rebooting, still got ads. What did I pay for!!!!! ### 1/5 — Locked out by ad *2026-07-25, version 2.8.4* couldn’t get past the ad screen ### 2/5 — $2.99 gone *2026-07-24, version 2.8.4* They lie!!!!! I’m still getting adds. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Keeps shoving ads at you, even when i pay to avoid them *2026-08-24, version 2.8.4* I paid 3.99 to avoid getting inescapable ads from this app, but it keeps shoving ads down my throat. I literally cannot escape these ads. There is no way to get out of them - no helpful X to click out - nothing. Also, the ads are “interactive,” ie you are just playing whatever game they’re shoving at you, and there is no - I repeat, NO - way to get out of them. This is utterly appalling. I’m honestly furious. ### 1/5 — Fascist Chess *2026-08-23, version 2.8.4* The game is good, but to play you have to watch adds for treasonous fascist GOP. Unacceptable!! Delete ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2026-08-18, version 2.8.4* Went through 4 game ads, even played the demos still never got to the game ### 1/5 — Ads *2026-08-17, version 2.8.4* Locks you into ads you can’t get out of. Total scam ### 1/5 — Ads *2026-08-15, version 2.8.4* Paid to have ads removed and they still come up and frequently. ### 1/5 — Stuck in commercials *2026-08-15, version 2.8.4* Non stop multiple commercials before even got to play Removed the app ### 1/5 — The ads are out-of-pocket *2026-08-09, version 2.8.4* You shouldn’t force people to watch the ads they wanna close the app to avoid the ads you should let them ### 1/5 — heavy advertising *2026-08-03, version 2.8.4* I’ve been using this app for over ten years. However, I had no idea it had become so full of ads and so ridiculous. I used to be able to use it offline. Now, there’s an ad for every single game—can you believe such nonsense? ### 1/5 — Nur Werbung *2026-08-02* Ich verstehe die guten Bewertungen hier nicht. Man kommt kaum zum Spielen. Es gibt viel zu viel Werbung. selbst mit Geduld ist das einfach nur nervig. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2026-07-29, version 2.8.4* Just trying to play chess not demo other games that even after the demo wont allow you to proceed to the actual game. Would rate no stars erasing this with no hesitation ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best game ever *2026-08-20, version 2.8.4* I love this game. It’s the funnest to me. I barely play it though cause I don’t know why cause I like Minecraft but now that Minecraft doesn’t work right now I’m playing with this and I love it ### 5/5 — Noice👌 *2026-08-10, version 2.8.4* Noice👌 ### 5/5 — Free and offline! *2026-08-09, version 2.8.4* Simple and just works! ### 5/5 — Healing *2026-08-05, version 2.8.4* I am disabled ### 5/5 — My review *2026-08-01* It’s a classic one,everyone should try it.. ### 5/5 — Красивый шахматы интересно играть *2026-07-31, version 2.8.4* Красивые шахматы интересно играть ### 5/5 — CHESS *2026-07-31, version 2.8.4* Never lose ### 5/5 — POW *2026-07-30, version 2.8.4* Great.so fun I love it ### 5/5 — Remove Ad didn’t work *2026-07-25, version 2.8.4* Even paid for removing ads. Still have ads ### 5/5 — Chess *2026-07-21, version 2.8.4* Great offline way to play chess --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-28.*