SocialChess • Online Chess Reviews

AWESOME GAME

Taz_SA

This is my go to game. It’s entertaining and challenging, all while improving your game. Recommended!

Used to be great

Dynasty_12

Ever since the latest update the game freezes and has to be reloaded constantly. Not good when your play timed games ? Update: after two weeks.... STILL FREEZES AND CRASHES

It must be hard to compete with the likes of chess.com and Lichess and I appreciate that this is an indie app likely made by just one person. The UI is well-thought out and I never have to wait long for a game. (I play almost all lengthy correspondence games.) The recent addition of post-game analysis is promising, but mostly it leaves me feeling frustrated and I end up taking my PGN to another chess app for analysis. My particular gripes: * The analysis doesn't seem that deep and it regularly suggests dubious moves. Why doesn’t it tell us what the depth is? Why can’t we increase the depth if wanted? After all it’s using the CPU on our phone/iPad, not some cluster in the cloud. * During analysis if I missed a move and want to explore, there’s no way to get any further analysis, ie engine moves. Clearly Stockfish or similar is now embedded into the app, so I don’t understand why I can’t use the engine to explore lines during post-game analysis. This is another reason I end up having to copy the PGN and go to another app. Additionally, the app just feels very un-iOS like. Gestures that are standard in other apps just don’t work. For example, swiping to go back to the previous screen. Instead I have to reach all the way to the top and tap the back button. And it used to be that I could swipe right on a game screen to go the strategy board, but this stopped working at some point so instead I have to use the menu which is cumbersome. I will say that the app works well on M1 Macs and find myself using it from my Mac more and more, which I love.

Not so great anymore.

fatboy3000

This game used to be great. Now not so much. As of today I can no longer play because every time I open the game the app freezes. I have been trying for the last three hours. I force close the app and then reopen it and still I cannot make a move. I can’t do anything because the app is frozen. I contacted support a while ago, was told there will be a software update to fix the problem but yet the problem has gotten worse.

Best chess app

geodogma

I like playing others around the world. Also there is untimed gams that you can play over days to weeks. Also speed chess option. It gives you a ranking too. Really a great app

Best

Ivava Eityu

I’ve been so grateful for the devs who made this app! Since the last update/changes, I have used this app many times every day. I wouldn’t change anything about it.

Screen dims while watching games

Thisnicknameaintbeentook

This didn’t happen before the last update. Please fix!

Used to be good but now glitchy

PretentiousOstrich828

Don’t know what they did but since the major update in 2020 this thing has been buggy.

Best Chess App

Bphornets16

No ads and love the strategy board while in game best feature ever. Only complaint is I don’t get notifications that it’s my turn in slow games

Love this app but needs development for social connectivity

E-Holmes

Love the app, works great. Wish I could be alerted/had a screen for when friends add me/a suggested friends list based off of Facebook contacts or what have you. With minor improvements could be the best chess app on the market.