# Mini Chess - Quick Chess — user reviews > 81 indexed App Store user reviews of Mini Chess by OutOfTheBit Ltd, rated 4.60/5 from 344 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mini-chess-quick-chess/id1048990809/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mini-chess-quick-chess/id1048990809.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 269 · 4★ 37 · 3★ 21 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Mini Chess? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fast-paced, quick gameplay - 👍 Easy to learn and beginner-friendly - 🎮 Addictive and fun - 💡 Innovative simplified chess concept - ⚙️ Multiple difficulty levels - 🧠 Good for chess practice and strategy learning - 📱 Perfect for short gaming sessions - 🎯 Simple navigation and interface **Cons** - 🐛 Check notification animation interrupts gameplay flow - 😴 Gets repetitive and stale quickly - 🤖 AI makes too many mistakes, even on hard mode - 📺 Excessive and intrusive ads - ⚖️ Unfair perpetual check mechanics - 🎮 Limited piece variety (only Pawns, Rooks, Queens) - 📱 Portrait mode only, no landscape support - 🐛 Stalemate treated incorrectly as a win - 🐛 Allows repeated moves without draw option **Commonly reported bugs** - Checkmate declared incorrectly with viable moves available - Queen positioned on wrong color - AI allows illegal moves to prevent player from winning - Stalemate not handled correctly - Perpetual check rules unfairly favor opponent **Most requested features** - Add Knights and Bishops to piece options - Alternative piece combinations (2 Rooks + 2 Bishops) - Randomized starting positions - Landscape mode for iPad - Random color assignment (white/black alternation) - Ability to play full traditional chess - Create custom board feature - Extremely hard difficulty level - Physical board version - Draw by repetition after 3 moves ## Newest reviews (17 of 81) ### 5/5 — Mini Chess *2023-01-05, version 6.05* Great. Love it. Good practice. Going strong.👍🏼 can’t quit. Excellent👍🏻 still playing 🤠😍still enjoyable❣️😁👍🏻 more still playing excellent, continued fun. Still enjoying it.yes🥳 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 ### 5/5 — Love it!! *2022-12-30* I love the entire concept of this game. Very quick and fun. I enjoy it very much! I wish someone made a physical board for this kind of chess... ### 5/5 — Chess *2022-06-26, version 6.05* Great game and adjustable to your ability. ### 5/5 — This game is so fun you *2022-05-16* In this game your kid will have a chance to learn strategics and basics ofChess. It gives education to those who want to learn chess. Can you ### 5/5 — Great Game *2021-11-27, version 6.05* Lots of, easy to play and very addictive. ### 5/5 — So fun! *2021-10-13, version 6.05* This game is so fun, it is nice to have three levels of difficulty. I wish you could randomly have white or black or make it alternate, but it isn’t a big deal to manually change it. ### 4/5 — Better than any other chess game *2021-09-21, version 6.05* It’s really good but the ai is not like playing a person ### 4/5 — Great idea, ok execution *2021-09-16, version 6.05* Love the idea and concept of the game, but it could do with a few quality of life improvements. First, landscape for iPad would be stunning. Secondly adding other combinations of pieces to play. Lastly, and most annoying for me was every single time a king is in check, the game splashes a message on the screen that temporarily stopped the flow of the game which was incredibly frustrating. ### 5/5 — Perpetual check *2021-08-31* In a state of perpetual check, the opponent always wins no matter which side instigates it. It is not fair. ### 5/5 — Top Spiel *2021-08-10* Immer wieder ### 5/5 — Great game *2021-01-15* I have had it for 10 days and I’m enjoying it a lot, it has made me loose fear of playing chess, it is fast and interesting. Comparing to other games I like that there is no luck involved, it is all up to you! ### 4/5 — Promocion *2021-01-13, version 2.10* ¿Porqué cuando mi peón llega a la última fila solo me deja promocionar a una pieza ya capturada? El ajedrez original no contempla eso, sino que sus reglas permiten promocionar a cualquier pieza aún no habiendo sido capturada: se pueden tener varias reinas. ### 5/5 — Review min chess *2020-03-19, version 2.10* I think it is great ### 5/5 — Top Stars *2020-02-20, version 2.10* The best ever ### 5/5 — Chess Beginner *2020-01-23, version 2.10* VERY CUTE game for those who want to learn. Nice because you don’t have to wait forever to strategize to make a move. Lots of fun! Thanks for creating this baby game of chess for beginners. Postscript: This game has 4 Rooks which is fine, but could you make an amended version that would have 2 Bishops and 2 Rooks? This would make the game even more fun. Hope this would not be too hard to do. Thanks for the enjoyment! ### 4/5 — It’s great!!! *2020-01-18* Everything is awesome buuuuuuut it won’t let me make Legal moves if it makes the computer lose ### 5/5 — Bien *2020-01-05, version 2.10* Facil y bonito ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Un buen juego echado a perder por los anuncios *2020-09-14, version 2.10* Me veo obligado a desinstalar el juego por la mala experiencia de tener que ver anuncios cada vez más largos a cada juego. Fue bonito mientras duró. ### 1/5 — It tried... *2019-06-12, version 2.10* No knights or bishops? Not a great computer player. Good idea, but didn’t doesn’t meet the potential. ### 1/5 — Ein Stern. *2018-09-17* Es sind nicht alle forcieren dabei👎🏿🖕🏿 ### 1/5 — Video ads now? *2017-09-19, version 2.00* I used to love this game and played all the time. But it started video ads on top of the banner ads. I refuse to play video ad apps. Congratulations you lost a user. I’m considering dropping all of your apps. ### 1/5 — Levels *2016-07-07* Schwierigste Stufe ist zu leicht/ high Level is to week ### 1/5 — No Knights? Rooks for Knights! *2015-12-23, version 1.00* This goofy game does not use Knights. It uses Rooks for nights instead. So you have four Rooks but no Knights; all those moves are lost. That's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous this game is useless. ### 2/5 — Pretty cool! But not real chess. *2017-01-13, version 1.10* Interesting take on a simplified chess game. Would be good if the AI were not so poorly programmed. So easy to beat it's really only good as a trainer for young kids. ### 2/5 — Faulty game *2015-12-29* I've played several games and it declares that I'm in checkmate when in fact there are still viable moves which can take place ### 3/5 — Good game… But there’s a lot of problems. *2025-10-24* This game is SUPER fun. I like how it’s generally very fast. Perfect for when you want chess, and you want to cut to the action immediately. However, the fact that there’s only Pawns, Rooks, and Queens really makes the game feel “incomplete” and “stale” after a while. While it is fun, it gets repetitive quickly. Plus, while the game generally goes by fast, I often avoid putting the AI in check, since the “check” banner fully stops the game to play a really slow animation. I think it’d be better if they and you could still move during the check notification. In addition, some of the achievements are completely unrealistic, like playing 1,000,000 matches. Assuming every match takes 30 seconds (which is a generous pace), you’d have to play for almost a full YEAR to complete the achievement. And that’s assuming you play the game 24/7 with NO breaks, and a consistent average pace of one game every 30 seconds. The later “play x matches” achievements are COMPLETELY unrealistic. I know I’ve been a bit harsh here, but that’s because I genuinely see potential in this game! It’s a super fun concept! If the achievements were made more, well… achievable, and if there was a mode to randomize the starting position with different pieces, this would be a perfect game. But as of now, it gets old pretty quickly. ### 3/5 — Ganz nett ... *2020-11-14* ... für so zwischendurch. Stärkste Spielstufe ist allerdings tatsächlich recht schwach, Patt wird als Matt gewertet und es ist trotz anderweitiger Behauptung kein Remis möglich, wenn keine Chance für beide Seiten mehr besteht. Dann spielt die App einfach endlos weiter. Onlinegegner habe ich auch noch nie gefunden. Aber ist sonst - wie gesagt - ein witziger Zeitvertreib für zwischendurch. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Chessboard game *2025-11-17, version 7.37* Great fun chess game ### 5/5 — Fun, good stepping stone and worth returning to. *2025-07-23, version 7.37* It’s a delight. Simple, to the point. In some ways, “super easy” — but that’s what’s so delightful about the whole thing. ### 5/5 — I love this game *2024-04-11, version 7.31* Great chess game ### 5/5 — Great Game *2024-01-06* Lots of, easy to play and very addictive. ### 5/5 — Perfektes Erlebnis *2023-12-14* Es fühlt sich an wie echtes Schach auf einem Brett,aber Mann kann es überall spielen.auch in der Bahn. ### 5/5 — Great Game *2023-07-14* Lots of, easy to play and very addictive. ### 5/5 — So fun! *2023-06-28* This game is so fun, it is nice to have three levels of difficulty. I wish you could randomly have white or black or make it alternate, but it isn’t a big deal to manually change it. ### 5/5 — 😍 Me encanta! *2023-04-16, version 6.05* Hola me gusta mucho este juego pero para jugar con alguien se necesita cuenta o no? Porque quiero desbloquear el logro conquisador del mundo ### 5/5 — So fun *2023-04-07, version 6.05* Love it so much ### 5/5 — Mini Chess *2023-04-07, version 6.05* Great. Love it. Good practice. Going strong.👍🏼 can’t quit. Excellent👍🏻 still playing 🤠😍still enjoyable❣️😁👍🏻 more still playing excellent, continued fun. Still enjoying it.yes🥳 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 --- *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 2026-08-16.*