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Checkers Prime – Strategy Game Review
Checkers Prime is a Strategy/Education/Board game from Anton Vinokurov, first launched in 10th March 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 17+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Checkers Prime Stand Out
- Importance of checkers –
Checkers (also known as Draughts) is one of the ancient games in the world. Checkers has become increasingly popular. Checkers can teach important pre-math and life skills, such as cause and effect, logical thinking, reasoning, a sense of confidence, a self-worth and the communication skills.
••• Why Checkers Prime? •••
Checkers Prime is one of the best designed checkers games for the iPad / iPhone. It provides learning support for novice players, a real challenge for the experienced players and fun.
Checkers Prime supports both ‘one player’ and ‘two player’ game play, so you can play against your friends or against a challenging computer opponent.
You can even start your game from different position that allows you to test your skills in different game phases, common positions, solve checkers puzzles, etc. Also you can save your game and then re-load it anytime you want.
If you are novice player you may take advantage of the feature that shows all legal moves for current piece.
-The full list of features:-
• Excellent graphics, sound effects and music
• Configurable player names
• Great AI engine with a flexible difficulty level that suits both novice players and experts
• Versatile openings
• SETUP game: Start the game from any desirable position with any number of pieces
• UNDO function if you accidentally hit wrong piece or square.
• REDO function if you missed the opponent’s move. Just press EYE button and Checkers Prime will show you the last opponent’s move.
• SAVE / LOAD feature gives you an opportunity to finish the game later or to play the checkers puzzle which you can setup in the “Setup Game” module.
• Option to show the LEGAL MOVES for current piece (very useful for novice players)
• Option to ROTATE the board in ‘two player’ mode.
• Option to limit ‘think time’ in ‘one player’ mode to 5, 15 or 30 seconds
• Option to choose piece color: Red/Black, Red / White or White / Black
• Option to choose first move
• Option to enable / disable forced captures
• Option to switch on / off sound effects and / or music
• Automatically saves the current state of the game, so the game state would be automatically restored if you quit the application
• Universal app (supports iPad / iPod touch / iPhone)
Checkers Prime plays accordingly to the American Checkers / English Draughts rules.
Enjoy!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Checkers Prime is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 10th September 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Improved checkers engine
- Bug fixes and optimized performance
Download & Availability
Checkers Prime is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Checkers Prime 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:
Its ok but the computer acts like Difficulty 5 on Difficulty 1.
Other checkers apps have flawed play. This one will give you a real challenge. The controls are clear, sufficient and easy to use. We can't ask for more and it's free.
Out of the 3 Checkers apps we downloaded, this one is the best.
Our grandson Ben and we enjoyed this game. He is new to Checkers but he won.
We love checkers. It is our favorite board game of all time. We love this game so much. It's so much fun. Even love the background music to it. Very classy.
Love to play checkers since we were kid still love playing being able to change diffucilty level makes. It a challenge.
Simple app that we can play with our son. Haven't tried single player yet.
Stop bugging us about the F review. Have some confidence.
- the AI will lern you a thing or two.
Great simple game. Wish you were able to play in both portrait and landscape, should be an easy upgrade. Also should make the IA hard level more competitive as it makes even the most simple mistakes a rookie would make, which makes the game less likely to pick up and play.
We like it it's simple and easy to navigate and very fun.
Too simple. Easily defeated the game's highest level.
This is a good app. All feature work except: It has the option to rotate the board but it does not rotate. Same with this companies Chess game. Neither rotates the board. PLEASE FIX.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 41.87 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Anton Vinokurov
Last updated: 10th September 2017 | Genre: Strategy, Education | Developer: Anton Vinokurov