# Chess ∙ — user reviews > 2,538 indexed App Store user reviews of Chess ∙ by Optime Software LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 204,953 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess/id311395856/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess/id311395856.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 155,771 · 4★ 24,267 · 3★ 11,080 · 2★ 3,751 · 1★ 10,084 ## What do users think of Chess ∙? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Fun to play everyday - 👍 Good free game - 👍 Nice little game - 👍 Very good practice - 👍 Addictive - 👍 Great game for anyone - 👍 Good app - 👍 Awesome - 👍 Really nice - 👍 Winner - 👍 Great for long flights **Cons** - 🐛 AD crazy - 🐛 Major glitches make the game impossible - 🐛 Force draw - 🐛 Issues, needs fixing but has potential - 🐛 Disappearing Pieces - 🐛 If you want to learn chess go somewhere else - 🐛 Fraudulent Advertisement Included! Beware! - 🐛 Ads - 🐛 Pop-up ads, app freezes, phone screen freezes, and more - 🐛 The game cheats - 🐛 Allows the AI to cheat - 🐛 Unbelievably buggy - 🐛 Cheating - 🐛 Cheats - 🐛 Glitches - 🐛 Terrible - 🐛 Annoying as hell - 🐛 Intrusive ads - 🐛 Breaks Rules Too Often - 🐛 Biggest disappointment ever - 🐛 Unbelievably buggy - 🐛 Cheating - 🐛 Disappointing **Commonly reported bugs** - Rook being able to move diagonally - Stalemate glitch where it will preemptively call stalemate before it even happens - Call stalemate when only the king can't move, and the other pieces can still move - Pieces move too fast - Doesn't allow en-passant moves by pawns - Refuses to allow legitimate win, claims draw instead - Doesn't recognize stalemate - Doesn't recognize checkmate - Pieces disappearing - Illegal moves by the AI **Most requested features** - Undo from stalemate - Highland opponents last move in green and my last move in blue - Allow a third level of zoom to fill the screen - Display a numeric value when difficulty slider is moved - Ability to turn off safety where you can't move king to where it would get taken out - Ability to turn off draw by stalemate rule ## Newest reviews (15 of 2,538) ### 3/5 — Super annoying ads *2026-08-24, version 2.11* App works well but the popup ads are really really annoying ### 4/5 — The ad *2026-08-18, version 2.11* It’s amazing game I recommend you get it, but there is ads ### 4/5 — Chess *2026-08-17, version 2.11* Chess it’s chess ### 1/5 — How chess is bad *2026-08-12, version 2.11* Horrid can’t work it is filled with magazines and is so stupid bad and horrible not to recommend baddddddddd so dumb ### 1/5 — Can’t get past ad to even play the game. *2026-08-12, version 2.11* Forced to play ad. No option to exit ad. I even closed the app and restarted it and the same ad came back. Wasn’t given chance to get to a chess game. ### 1/5 — Waste of Time *2026-08-12, version 2.11* I wish there was a an option for negative star. I never made it past the countless back to back to back ads. I honestly for forgot I was on chess. 4.5 rating, yea somebody’s lying. ### 1/5 — It is an ad driver *2026-08-11, version 2.11* I can’t even get into the game anymore as it always defaults to asking me to download other games. ### 1/5 — Chess *2026-08-10, version 2.11* It will not stay on the chess game. When I finish a game and want to start again (after 3 or 4 games) other games load other than Chess ### 2/5 — Not recommended *2026-08-10, version 2.11* The game doesn’t let you switch colours and the easy difficult are basically the same ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2026-08-10, version 2.11* Too many ### 2/5 — Adverts *2026-08-09, version 2.11* Too many long adverts every time you open the app I’ve moved on! ### 3/5 — Adds *2026-08-08, version 2.11* Too many adds. ### 1/5 — F…. ads *2026-08-07, version 2.11* You can’t even play the game because of the ads ### 1/5 — Misspelled *2026-08-06, version 2.11* I think you mean ads ### 1/5 — Can’t get past the ads *2026-08-05, version 2.11* I was never able to get to the main menu because I was FORCED to watch an ad. I am not waiting for an ad to play before I even get to start a game. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Stuck on a commercial *2026-08-23, version 2.11* Stupid ma jong commercial will not close ### 1/5 — Muchos comerciales *2026-08-23, version 2.11* Demasiados comerciales ### 1/5 — Way too many ads *2026-08-20, version 2.11* Not good for kids. There’s so many ads they just end up playing ads mostly. ### 1/5 — Chesster *2026-08-19, version 2.11* Apps lets you play 5/6 games then doesn’t let you play anymore. Just pushes adds on you. Garbage. ### 1/5 — Ad hell! *2026-08-17, version 2.11* Ads you can't close! ### 1/5 — Annoying!!! *2026-08-15, version 2.11* This game used to be better now its just advertising !! You cant even play the game itself! Uninstalling for sure! ### 1/5 — Can’t win *2026-08-15, version 2.11* Always a draw my stalemate right before you get checkmate it’s a joke ### 1/5 — Too many commercials *2026-08-13, version 2.11* Horrible ### 1/5 — Ads *2026-08-12, version 2.11* Every time I want to play I get an ad the won’t let me pass to chess . So I never get to play ### 1/5 — Waste of time *2026-08-12, version 2.11* It just wants me to install another game ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Too many ads *2026-08-24, version 2.11* This game is strictly adds. Makes you spend more time waiting and playing other games than actually being able to access the app ### 5/5 — Chess game *2026-08-13, version 2.11* This game is so fun and educational to play so relaxing and interesting to play with other players ### 5/5 — the better chess.com. *2026-08-13, version 2.11* NO forced AI, and has traditional AI instead of generative. W game ### 5/5 — Chess *2026-08-10, version 2.11* Why do u always let the other king not move where he can die u have to make it more fair ### 5/5 — Good game *2026-08-10, version 2.11* Good game ### 5/5 — MALVIn *2026-08-02, version 2.11* Dope Game ### 5/5 — Chess fun *2026-07-30, version 2.11* It is so fun but hard to win and I like the challenge ### 5/5 — Chess *2026-07-26, version 2.11* What I think about the Chess game is it so cool you could play against other people or your family your friends and you can play on a big screen anything really I’m playing on my tablet and the game is so cool whoever made it is so smart and they just it’s just an awesome game like my mind is blown. It’s one of my first time playing it and my sister loves the game. It’s so cool I get to like. And redo it and but it’s different. 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