BlueChess vs Chess Grandmaster 2017
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BlueChess
Engage in strategic gameplay with powerful chess engines. Choose between the BlueChess engine or the highly-rated Stockfish engine for your matches.
- Play against BlueChess engine
- Play against Stockfish engine
- Strategic gameplay
- Free to play
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Play a game of chess against the BlueChess engine or the Stockfish engine.
Chess Grandmaster 2017
This chess application features a powerful AI engine with adjustable difficulty levels tailored to different player ratings. Its minimalist interface is designed for optimal user experience on iOS devices.
- Powerful Artificial Intelligence
- Minimalist user interface
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- Optimized for iOS 10
- Player rating recommendations
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Insanely powerful Artificial Intelligence Adopts the minimalist design for the user interface to maximize user experience Artificial intelligence created with the latest software, optimized for iOS 10 Difficulty 1 : Recommended for players with rating 1000 - 1400 Difficulty 2 :Recommended for players with rating 1400- 1600 Difficulty 3: Recommended for players above 1600
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BlueChess at 5.0 against Chess Grandmaster 2017's 4.4. BlueChess also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 27%). Chess Grandmaster 2017's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 2) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BlueChess holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Grandmaster 2017 has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of BlueChess's written reviews are positive against 27% of Chess Grandmaster 2017's.
| Parameter | BlueChess | Chess Grandmaster 2017 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.4 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 27.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GreenChess.com | Chienfu Huang |
Customer experience
BlueChess
Chess Grandmaster 2017
In-app purchases
BlueChess
No in-app purchases
Chess Grandmaster 2017
No in-app purchases
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