Comparison

iPlay Chess vs Chess Board Master

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

iPlay Chess

Engage in chess matches against powerful AI engines with customizable difficulty and playing styles. Enhance your skills with opening books, move hints, and detailed play statistics. Enjoy a personalized experience with custom boards, pieces, and sounds across multiple devices.

Highlights
  • Play against 6 top chess engines
  • Customizable boards, pieces, and sounds
  • Variety of opening books for all levels
  • Adjustable opponent playing style
  • Move highlights and hints
  • Play statistics tracking
  • iPad split screen support
Features
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Play against 6 of the best chess engines, including Stockfish 13 and Leela Chess Zero. More engines will be added with next updates. Great interface for all platforms with custom boards and pieces, sounds and spoken moves. A variety of opening books for all levels can help you improve your game. You can customize your opponent's playing style by adjusting various options like engine strength, move time and increment, opening books variations. Other features: - highlights and hints for moves - support for multiple opening books - play stats - iPad split screen Constant updates will bring more features. Discover the planned roadmap in settings.

About

Chess Board Master

Features
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As you know, Chess is one of the oldest strategy games in the world. Chess is an excellent board logic game that develops such skills as tactics, strategy and visual memory. chess Board Master allows a player of any level to enjoy the game. Chess pieces: - The pawn moves to one field forward or two fields at the first move of this figure; beats diagonally to one field forward. - The king moves to one field in the vertical, horizontal or diagonal. - The queen moves to any distance vertically, horizontally or diagonally. - The rook moves to any distance vertically or horizontally. - The knight moves to the field two fields along the vertical and one horizontally or one field vertically and two horizontally. - The bishop moves to any distance diagonally. Features: - Chess Puzzles - Hints of moves - four different themes - Alternate mode - 2 player mode - Realistic graphics - Small size How to play: All you have to do is select a piece on the board. If you have multiple options, a dot will appear to help you choose. The objective is to eliminate your opponent's pieces by capturing them and eventually checkmate the king. The objective of the game is to checkmate the opponent: this occurs when the opponent's king is in check, and there is no legal way to remove it from the attack. It is never legal for a player to make a move that puts or leaves the player's own king in check.

Screenshots

iPlay Chess4 screens
Chess Board Master4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Chess Board Master at 12.0 against iPlay Chess's 14.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
iPlay Chess versus Chess Board Master: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriPlay ChessChess Board Master
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 25 months—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size200 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBEYTEK MUHENDISLIK SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETISumita Hirpara

In-app purchases

None

iPlay Chess

No in-app purchases

None

Chess Board Master

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iPlay Chess free?
iPlay Chess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess Board Master free?
Chess Board Master is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do iPlay Chess or Chess Board Master have ads?
Both iPlay Chess and Chess Board Master show ads.

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