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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

4.8 814184 ratings · App Store

1. 2/5Good but major issues

   This is the preferred chess app across platforms whether on mobile or web. However it has major issues. I’m a very good player and usually play rapids. The rating system is so weak. I play with players sometimes lower than me by as much as 500 ELOs. This is a poor representation because I want to be matched with opponents on a similar skill level. The worst is when they cheat, which brings me into my second issue. I’ve come across many people who cheat and finds moves very quickly in the nick of time. There are various other forms of cheating including literally changing the position of how the placement of pieces are oriented. Additionally, I have come across many manipulation techniques by individuals. Lately, it’s been more of a network issue only on this app. I lose ELO when people purposely are losing to me because of there being a continuous message of reconnecting. My ELO goes away, but I am more so bothered how they are compensated for it. Next, the rating system is rigged. I play 2 matches, lose 1 and win 1 against someone else with same ELO. I lose more ELO than what I started with, meaning the other person gains more ELO. Not sure how that’s fair. And of course, the lower ranking people do this a lot more finding moves that are not indicative of their skill level. App would easily be 5 stars if this was all addressed, as well as support being readily available to players!

   aryanshahh · 30 Aug 2026

2. 5/5Password

   I’ve been working to log in after not being active on this app for about 6 months and when I try to log in, my password is incorrect, and so I reset it. After I reset the password and put it in, it also said incorrect password. This went on for about an hour until I broke a sweat and was looking for the nearest bridge to jump off of, so I quit and tried to delete the app, but it just was removed from my Home Screen and apparently I cannot remove it from my phone completely so here I am. Holy cow. Oh…and to add to the stress, I was on two 3 hour flights today and I am currently enduring a 2:30 hour car ride through the middle of the desert in Idaho. My legs hurt and I feel like my body is about to get glued to a seat, as that is all I have been doing today; sitting. And to top it off, I sat in the middle seat on both flights and on the second flight there was a (I don’t want to be rude but) person who took up an amount of space that could make one feel uncomfortable sitting right next to me. The WiFi didn’t work on either flight. When I landed, me and my friend put in a couple dollars into an air hockey machine while waiting for the bags and the disc/puck never came out. We also lost 10 bucks on a claw machine. Hope you have a nice day 😭😭😭😭😭.

   Steph is the best 30 · 30 Aug 2026

3. 4/5Social upgrade & Design simplification (NEEDED)

   I want to offer simple design improvements that would engage users to a whole other level. This is so far a chess app / website that allows you to just play chess but severely lacks an actual chess community to the degree in which I see its potential. We want to find professional players / engage and keep up with chess news. People don’t want to read articles that’s boring. When I go to a professional chess players page all I see is comment spam from random people and no actual comments or video updates from the chess player them self. It needs to have Facebook comment design prioritizing the users comments at the top and then the most like comments after. They should also be able to add photos that could be commented on and liked. Secondly there are SO MANY sections that are not grouped up accordingly. People love simplicity. There should be a (Play) (Learn) (Watch) (News). Instead, all the categories that should be located inside each drop box are scattered outside these categories and are extremely ugly and overwhelming. Besides that to somehow promote twitch engagement would be huge and lastly, getting borders for your advertisements would help you look like s more high quality website. I just love chess so much and this app. I want this app to be successful and the chess community to grow.

   Good boogaloo woolly · 30 Aug 2026

4. 5/5Checkmate!

   I’ve been using this Chess app for about three or four years. It has a lot of additional features like tactics puzzles, videos, and preset predicaments to challenge you and help you set up future moves to create the best situation for your pieces. There is also a play-by-play review of your games which critiques your moves and tells you what you could’ve done better. A couple things that need improvement though. Often the app will fail to notify me when it’s my turn after my opponent has moved, requiring me to open the app and navigate to my active games to manually check if it is my turn. The other issue is that sometimes I will try to start a new game with a friend with the “Play A Friend” option and the app opens the “active connection countdown” when I’m not trying to play a live game. I’m sure there is a way to create a new game with a friend without creating an active challenge, but I am not sure how. If this feature exists, it just needs to be integrated in an easy to find menu. (This review is based on my use from a Samsung Galaxy S5). EDIT: I have an iPhone X now and I am able to successfully use the “Play A Friend” option to create a daily game without the app opening the “Active Connection Countdown” so the issue I stated previously may already be resolved.

   Shocktop32 · 30 Aug 2026

5. 5/5Love everything about this app(almost)

   This is a fantastic app. I do however have a few small issues with it. One the engine leaves a bit to be desired in my opinion. I find that it will label moves as mistakes that simply where not and it just didn’t understand what i was doing. Now it’s possible I’m just not a great chess player but I still think it could be improved upon. The other thing I have in mind is a quality if life thing. I wish that you could easily convert games to a PGN file to put them in a database or the app simply compiled all ur games in a data base where u could go back and most importantly go through different variations. I know this is already somewhat a possibility but it could be improved upon. As of now I am copying my games Into a different app and analyzing them there but it would be nice to do everything in one place. The other thing that would be nice would be to have a more comprehensive system to learn openings. Specifically what I have in mind, I’m not sure currently exists, but basically i think it would be really cool and helpful to be able to choose an opening then the computer would play various book moves in the various lines of the opening and you would play and have to choose a response that is a book move. This way you could easily learn all the variations of the Sicilian through rapid trial and error as opposed to laboring over a chess book (as I have been) and trying to go through each variation which has been incredibly difficult for me, especially with openings as nuanced as the Sicilian

   FreemanMoser · 30 Aug 2026

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