Pulsar Chess Engine User Reviews

Name: Pulsar Chess Engine
Rating: 4.3 (12 reviews)

Michael Adams

Customer Experience

Positive experience68.0% of reviews

Neutral12.0% of reviews

Negative experience20.0% of reviews

~ Based on 25 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Klasse Schachapp

Macht Spaß und ist abwechslungsreich.
Genau richtig für eine schnelle Partie zwischendurch.

Chessmüsli

4 months ago

Basic and ok

Limited features. Like the book availablility. However, I beat it with easy, set at 2000. No way it was playing at that strength.

Email games does not work. ????

Kaleo

2 years ago

Simple yet powerful

I really like the UI as it is 2D. The games are also adjustable for difficulty level. Really love this.

Ihsan_Latheef

3 years ago

Response from developer

I"m glad you like that. I think the adjustable levels for the variants like crazyhouse, atomic and losers as well as chess is what makes it fun There is an update out now with flip as the main feature in review mode.

Fun app

Feels great to go up against another chess engine. I am really enjoying the app.

Mr. Scrooge Mcduck

3 years ago

Game works and is fun

I played the iPad version of this, on my iPad. The game worked very well. I enjoyed it. It would be nice if the game would tell me when my king is in check. I thought that the game had frozen. In fact, my king was in check. It is a fun and worthwhile game on the iPad.

Suggestions to the Author:

1. Please create a “Baby” level. “Easy” is too hard! Your game is relentless. It covers every piece that it advances.

2. When an enemy piece moves, please make this happen slowly. Your enemy pieces move so quickly that I can’t tell what happened. This is especially irksome when I think the enemy captured one of my pieces.

3. Please tell me when I’m in “check”.

4. A clearer statement of “check mate” would be helpful.

Thank you.

Andrew Roller

4 years ago

Good, but a little weak

Hmmm... it blunderes mate in 2

ProgrammerVic

4 years ago

Response from developer

By default its at the easiest level. If you go to the Game menu in lower left and choose new game, you can set it to difficult and it wont blunder into shallow mates. There's 8 levels total.

Excellent for Chess960 and other variants!

A nice surprise was when you win at a higher difficulty level it unlocks example professional player classical games.

Zandaxar

5 years ago

Perfekt Varianten gibt es Doch 5 Sterne.

Ich habe ungefähr 2000 Eli auf Atomic Schach und ich stehe mit dem Computer 1-7. Sehr stark.

ChessDojo

5 years ago

Response from developer

Tippen Sie unten links auf das Spielmenü. Wählen Sie "Neues Spiel". Aus der neuen Spielansicht können Sie Ihre Variante auswählen und nicht nur Schach haben.

Good game and engine

I am enjoying playing this app after the recent update. The features are simple and easy to use and everything I want from a computer sparring partner. On issue I found is with the PGN, especially after queen promotions. In one file after 48…b2b1=Q, every subsequent move was listed as a pawn move even if a piece moved, and every black move had =Q, for example 49…f7f6=Q. Also, I try not to use undo/revert move feature, but it would good to have those moves recorded in braces.

BubblesRFL

5 years ago

Response from developer

I thought it was a good idea for people's future self to know if they used undo/revert in a log file game. For now I add "unrated" in latest update to game string in games view if retract move was used. Like "Pulsar Chess Easy unrated". First two moves can still be undone without that being added to let people change the opening. I may have to update it later if people are confused because we don't actually rate. games, but for now i thought that was easier to read than adding something like 'retract move used". Stuff with moves and problems with move display has to wait for now. Maybe at some point in future the actual moves with retract move can be marked.

Pulsar cheats

When it moves to take a piece it will take an extra piece.

94553jim

5 years ago

Response from developer

If you were playing the Atomic Chess variant, the rules allow capturing of surrounding pieces as well except pawns.

Macht keinen Spaß

Unübersichtlich, keine schöne GUI. Spielstärke ist Hash!? Keine Ahnung, warum kann man die Einstellung nicht "Spielstärke" nennen?

Lebensform001

5 years ago

Response from developer

Die Hash-Größe ist nicht die einzige Einstellung der Spielstärke. In der unteren linken Ecke der App ist der Button, um eine neue Partie zu starten. In der darauf folgenden Ansicht kann man die Schwierigkeit einstellen. Update: Die App wurde aktualisiert. Über der Hash-Einstellung steht nun dieser Text: Mit „Partie konfigurieren“ im Partien-Menü können Sie die Schwierigkeit oder Spielvariante festlegen. Die Hash-Einstellung selbst ist die verwendete RAM-Speichergröße und gilt nur für zeitgesteuerte Spiele.

Doesn't show level properly

Couldn't get it to display above a 1200 level, even when increasing processor time.

Castle1925

6 years ago

Response from developer

If you click the "Game" button in the lower left of the app, you'll get a menu, and if you choose new game you can configure all the parameters of the game.

No Frills, Great Features!

Deceptively primitive at first glance, this is a really solid chess app, with loads of useful features, and a very straightforward interface. I got it specifically for the Chess 960 variant, but it quickly became my favorite out of several, and I'm still exploring and learning. Kudos to the developers for adding value to the internet!

World's Foremost Expert

6 years ago

screeee:}

simple more controlls then the standard easy fun , thank you !

Momhapyw5kids

6 years ago

Needs improvement

Design and graphics are basic. There should be an option of not showing last move

Claire 306

6 years ago

Great app. Exactly what I hoped existed now

I didn't think I would find an app that could play crazyhouse, much less beat me. This is exactly what I was looking for. Great app. Now I don't have to bore myself playin regular chess on my cell phone!

Snoozalotapus

9 years ago

Needs work

Lazy design. Needs a lot of improvement. Ascii buttons, fixed width fonts, really?

Old Mac Al

9 years ago

Superb chess necessity

I love 'Suicide Chess', known here as 'Loser Chess'. Never win, but it's fun. Crazyhouse Chess is also here, the same game as I play on my iMac - terrific fun. There are other variants too. I just beat the iPad at 'Atomic Chess' which was terrific fun. Just taught my son chess and this is a good app to play in between proper chess.

Luther08

11 years ago

Awesome sparring partner

Im a regular chess player approx 1700 uscf and I find pulsars style of play on the lower levels quit amusing and challenging. Its really a great training tool for beginners + its free.

The cons: a few bug here and there but if you e-mail the developer he is quick to respond and fixes up the issues.

I gave it 5 stars because I find the app highly addicting.

-David

Davidyom10