# Chess Online· — user reviews > 77 indexed App Store user reviews of Chess Online· by Solitaire Games Free, rated 3.50/5 from 328 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-online/id1424486657/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-online/id1424486657.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 167 · 4★ 27 · 3★ 24 · 2★ 17 · 1★ 93 ## What do users think of Chess Online·? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 😊 Simple and clean visuals - 🎮 Decent gameplay mechanics when functioning properly - ⚖️ Reasonable difficulty levels available **Cons** - 📺 Excessive ads interrupting gameplay every 1-3 moves - 💰 No option to remove ads with payment - 🐛 Illegal chess moves by AI (castling through check, moving into check) - 🐛 Incorrect piece placement (queens on wrong color squares) - 🐛 Game prevents legal moves (castling, en passant, pawn captures) - 🐛 Stalemate claims when player should win - 🐛 Move stuck/frozen bug preventing game progression - 🔒 Security concerns (clipboard access without user interaction) - ⚠️ Potential malware and unauthorized data access - 🎯 Weak AI difficulty despite advertised skill levels - 🎨 Poor color scheme (black pieces on black squares invisible) - 📢 Loud and disruptive advertisements - 🎮 Clunky and unintuitive design **Commonly reported bugs** - AI makes illegal moves (castling through check, moving into check) - Queens placed on incorrect color squares - Castling not recognized as legal move - En passant not implemented - Pawns cannot capture pieces correctly - Game prevents legal moves without reason - Stalemate incorrectly declared when player can win - Move gets stuck on last action, cannot proceed - App accesses clipboard without user interaction - Multiplayer matchmaking fails to find opponents - Pawns only promote to queen, no other options - Difficulty settings don't scale properly **Most requested features** - Place ads only at game start/end, not during gameplay - Add premium option to remove advertisements - Improve AI to follow all chess rules correctly - Better color scheme for board and pieces - Add animation to piece movements - Implement en passant rule - Enable castling functionality - Add chess puzzles feature - Improve piece promotion options beyond queen only - Add undo/move retraction feature ## Newest reviews (16 of 77) ### 1/5 — Adverts every 10 seconds *2020-08-22* Pointless - when will they realise too many ads means delete and look for another! ### 1/5 — Ads ads ads *2020-08-14* So many ads ### 1/5 — Ass cheeks *2020-08-11, version 1.9* Played level 5 and made it 3 moves in then got and ad. Couldn’t castle on queen or king side. Immediately realized this is a trash app. ### 1/5 — Advertisement *2020-08-04, version 1.9* Do not download this app unless you want to spend more time watching horrible gaming ads than actually playin chess. Terrible job by the producers👎🏼 ### 1/5 — Bad Color Scheme *2020-07-23* The app is ok. (This was my first review) I changed my mind! The app is horrible! One problem with the app is the fact that the pieces and the squares are the same colors??!!! A black pawn on a black square is practically invisible. A beige and green or some other scheme that is not black and white would be great! The issue that made me delete the app is the obnoxious ads! If you play the computer, the ads interrupt your game every 5-6 moves and sometimes after every move. THEN the ads are loud and disruptive. I’m glad I discovered this while playing at home and not in a meeting where quiet is important! Don’t download the app- it’s not worth the time! There are plenty of chess apps that are far better! ### 1/5 — Just the Worst *2020-06-30* Some of the laziest game creation I’ve seen in a long while. Ugly, clunky design. No animation at all. You gotta sit through an advert at every other turn. This is basically an advert generator with a tissue-thin paper mache shell of a game hastily wrapped around it. Deleted. ### 1/5 — Ads mid game *2020-06-26* Ads are understandable since it might be the only way for the devs to make money but putting them between moves in a match can be extremely annoying ### 1/5 — ADS! *2020-06-01* The ads are nonstop! Every several moves that you make, an ad appears and stays there for a good 30 seconds. It really throws off your concentration. What’s worse is the fact that there’s no purchase for removing ads! Find another chess app. ### 2/5 — Viel zu viel Werbung *2020-04-11* Nach jedem Spielzug kommt ein 30 sekündiger Werbespot, so ist es fast unmöglich eine Partie Schach zu spielen. Ja, es ist kostenlos, da muss man mit Werbung rechnen, aber das ist eine Dauerwerbesendung, sodass die App kaum zu benutzen ist. ### 1/5 — Does not follow rules of chess *2020-04-10, version 1.9* Does not follow rules. AI will castle through check. It also only promotes pawns to Queen. It never will find someone to play when Pressing find random player. AI is also not as skillful as advertised. ### 1/5 — The worst *2020-04-03, version 1.9* I am willing to pay extra. There is advertisement in every chess move. ### 1/5 — I played 1 game and had 5 ad breaks in it *2020-03-13* I get free games have ads but seriously this was ridiculous do them before and after the game! ### 1/5 — Ads are too long *2020-02-23, version 1.9* Ad length and frequency makes enjoyable play impossible. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2020-01-21, version 1.9* Spamming me with a barrage of ads every single second, it’s absolutely disgusting. Stick to chess and not trying to be money hungry, seeing as how no one installs this. ### 1/5 — Ads *2020-01-02, version 1.9* 6 ads in one game. Up yours ### 1/5 — Can’t play a game without interruption *2019-12-31, version 1.9* Long, loud Ads interrupted the game every three moves in my first game. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Warning Malware!!!!!!!!!! *2023-04-09* This app contains hidden malware do not install it on your phone it accesses you private data and tries to get system level permissions to your messages and contacts ### 1/5 — Terrible *2022-01-27* Made about 6 moves, in that time I had 2 ads pop up and deleted after the second ad. Absolutely ridiculous, just play the ads at the end you greedy ******** ### 1/5 — Reklam *2021-12-22, version 1.9* Her hamlede reklam çıkıyor oyundan hiçbir şey anlamadım saçma ### 1/5 — Security issue? *2021-05-02* I have noticed that when opening the game, it pastes from the clipboard without any interaction from the user. ### 1/5 — Do not install. Nothing but ads *2021-03-26* Ads every move. Chess computer is stupid even on the hardest setting. ### 1/5 — Don’t download this app *2020-12-30* This app bombards you with adds every 2-3 moves. Extremely annoying. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2020-12-28* Plays and add after EVERY MOVE. ### 1/5 — So so so many adverts *2020-11-29* Number of ads totally destroys play. ### 1/5 — Way too many ads *2020-11-01* Downloaded the app, couldn’t make it through one game because of the amount of ads. Very annoying, don’t waste your time. ### 1/5 — I couldn’t take the ads. *2020-10-27, version 1.9* Every move had ads, deleted it. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun *2019-08-19* Not only does the app function well, but they didn’t over do it with the ads. Worth it ### 4/5 — DicRichie *2018-09-21* A little too easy. Otherwise, not bad. ### 4/5 — The queen goes on her color. *2018-09-02* The Black/White queen’s position is incorrect. Black goes on black square, white on white square. ### 3/5 — Bug, need update please *2021-06-23* Up until recently I’ve had no problems with this game. The adverts are annoying but I can deal with that. I enjoy it’s simplicity. But just this last week there seems to be a bug where I can’t return my move. It just gets stuck on my last move. Please sort it out. Thanks ### 3/5 — Glitches... *2020-01-18* Nice, simple visuals. The difficulty ratings are less than desired as anything over level 5 only a grand master could have the patience to beat... The game is also full of odd glitches and I’ve had pieces taken by pawns that even David Blaine couldn’t muster! The glitches seem to happen when select the computer to play as white. Probably a simple code fix. ### 3/5 — Chess *2019-10-14, version 1.9* Its realy good game but when i was playing offline app make banned move so i get this app 3 ### 3/5 — 확실히 난이도에 대한 경기가 우수한편 *2019-09-18* 무르기가 없는건지 안보이는건지 모르겠는데 아쉬움 뭐만 하면 광고나와서 집중이 힘듬 심지어 광고 없애는 결제도 없음 지웠음 ### 3/5 — Ok but can get better *2019-04-19* It's chill, but sometimes it just preventa you from doing a certain move for no reason. ### 2/5 — Not good *2021-08-18* Add between the game, unwanted red and green colour, level 9 difficulty is as easy as a duck ### 2/5 — ads *2020-07-26, version 1.9* too many ads there’s one every like 3 moves --- *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 2026-08-17.*