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Chess: 2 Players! – Strategy Game Review
Chess: 2 Players! is a Strategy/Board/Sports game from Marina Anisovich, first launched in 18th April 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,432+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Chess: 2 Players! Stand Out
Free chess app for two players! Play chess together on 1 DEVICE or ONLINE!
• 1 Device:
This mode has been designed specifically to play together on one device, just like on a real chessboard. Place your device on the table and enjoy!
• Online:
Search a random player with the same skill level to play a fun game of chess!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Chess: 2 Players! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd January 2022
Recent improvements include:
Online games!
- Play chess with a random player anywhere.
- Select your skill level to find an opponent for you.
(In development)
New:
- Piece rotation toggle
Translation:
- Added translation for Hindi
Bugs:
- Fixed a bug where the last moved piece would animate again and make a sound
- "Pro version only" label will no longer show for the Pro users
- Fixed a Stalemate bug
Download & Availability
Chess: 2 Players! is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Chess: 2 Players! on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Great design! The only thing that would make it better is more themes.
Thank yall for the most common-sense designed chess app we could find on the go.
We wish there was not a limit on move take backs, but it is a good challenge to force ourselves and our opponent (boyfriend) since we usually play casually (we typically lose). Anyways, we won with limited move take backs so 5 stars.
We love Teen Titans. We love this better.
Our grandpas never played chess before and he used it to tell him where to move and stuff and he said he loves this app so much 5 stars.
No ads, its simple and perfect,.
This App isnt overly complicated, but is simple to use, we use to practice opening's.
Something gooding this gaming ising this one gaming gooding for meeting Becusing we coooking in the chatting housing.
This game is interesting and we enjoying it.
We love chess! We love this APP! We love our girlfriend. Thank you.
This is da best chess app two things we are waiting and asking people to play chess two please add learning just in case but overall good.
Great game but having trouble with online games but great game overall.
This game is so fun Im in LA and we can play this chess game with our family so we can have a competition.
Us and our best friend Caitlin have been playing chess like MANIACS! Wake up: chess. Go to bed: dream of chess. We used to frolic in the fields and woodwork baby Russian dolls, but now we toy with the wonderful world that is, ONLINE CHESS! This is wayyy better then chess.com because it's simple and clean and not racist. One time on chess.com someone reached through the laptop and strangled us, it was scary. We can sleep at knight(hahah get it) knowing that won't be a problem for us because we feel safe with chess 2 players. Thank you for inviting our heart and soul into the game of chess #checkmate.
There is a glitch where no matter what name you put it says its already taken.Ive tried already taken.btw we copied the name and pasted it on here.
It would be better to have a timer.
We would love it if the pro mode was removed fully, cause it doesnt work and we would love to be able to have those features such as timer. Also, the UI is very clean, but maybe add different themes and also, the game is not letting us castle, so please look into that. Other than that, we have faced no problems.
We learned chess so fast bye 6-7.
Us cant create a user name so us cant play online but la can play local vs our brother.
The app is good but we wish it had updates.
Overall esta muy buena la app ah que algunos de nosotros nos gustara una versin en 3D.
This game is absolutely the best one you can find Simple and very easy to use fun to play with friends on iphone or ipad. Works perfectly well no issues ever! Thanks.
This is a great game to play with friends or family! There are usually no ads and it is not laggy! However, when we try to play online, it says the username is taken, even when we type some random letters as the username. This is obviously a bug, we and really hope they can fix it.
This is fantastic and looks pretty good. It will not let purchase the Pro version though. We have reinstalled it twice to no avail. We are on a 5th generation iPad Pro and the button is there but it does nothing.
The two player is gray, but its impossible and we mean impossible to find username to play online.
We wanted to play chess with our brother one time, so we went on the App Store and we found this Game. Its a very good game. We play it all the time and we have fun playing it, but we cant play online against someone else because every time we type in a name, it just says, Sorry, this username has already been taken. Please type in your username. No matter what we type in, it just keeps saying that. We dont know if it only happens to us or not, but we want that to be fixed. Besides that, everything is ok.
It is chess but the pieces are backwards and it is bland.
Hi, we wanted to play chess online out of pure boredom, but every nickname we typed in said it was already taken. We literally spammed and it said the username was taken. Please fix this bug.
It doesnt work and even as we typed random stuff, it keeps saying username taken Fix and we will give it a 5 star rating.
Its a good two player game but way have play online we cant find a username to get its says its all ready taken please fix that.
We like playing it, its accurate and all, but no matter what name you type when you try to play online, it says its already been taken. Please make online playable.
The game is realy good but when we want to play online it says username already taken.
This game is great for people with only one device, but it has a bug with online nicknames. Also we dont like the way that u need to buy the timer.
We paid for the Pro to get the clock but unfortunately, you can only set the time equal for both players. We wanted to be able to set it differently for each player so that we can play with our son and let them have 20 min and set ours to 5 min. If dev adds this feature, Id change our rating to 5 stars. Im also unable to play online because when it asks for username to register it keeps telling us the usernames already taken even when we type a bunch of random characters.
We want the pro version for the timer, but Buy button is not working. Also, all the user names tried are already taken, which is obviously a bug.
We cannot get a username we were typing random letters for 3 minutes strait multiple times an it said the username was taken every time. Play any other chess game.
SO hi game and who the creator is we AM MAD AT YOUR GAME CUZ Im trying to play online and it says plz put in YOUR username and we try to put it in BUT IT SAYS SORRY BLA BLA BLA EVEN WHEN we PUT IN NUMBERS we DOESNT WORK.
Game was great oh our kidding how would we know because we couldnt even find a user name to play the gameI wanted to give this game zero stars but it wouldnt let us submit it. We tried the most random names none of them would let us get in we highly do not recommend this game.
If we had two bullets, and we had too shoot either this game, or hitler, we would shoot the game twice.
It wont let us castle our king to safety.
Can you fix the online name problem.
We couldnt even put our own username to play online. We put in the most random usernames and nope, keeps say that someone has this username already is deleted. Too frustrating.
It doesn't let you die and it makes the game more boring when you cant sacrifice your queen at the last play.
Love the design of this game, perfect for what we were looking for with playing chess with someone on the same phone. We hope they add that you can see your material advantage, other than that 10/10.
App called a stalemate when the soon-to-be defeated King moved into a position where he was not in check, but would be when the other side moved.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.0
- Size: 2.61 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN, HI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Marina Anisovich]()
Last updated: 2nd January 2022 | Genre: Strategy, Board | Developer: Marina Anisovich