Chess Deluxe
Step into the gaming world with Chess Deluxe, one of the top $2.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Nicholas Cooke, this captivating Board game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 4+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 29th February 2012, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 25th December 2022.
Whether you have a liking for Board, Strategy, games, Chess Deluxe is sure to keep you hooked!
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Dive into Chess Deluxe
Play chess against your friends in a two player game on the same device or online using Game Center. Test out your chess skills against the computer with configurable difficulty and quick response times.
Chess Deluxe features:
- A simple, easy to use interface
- Play as either white or black
- Play against the computer with configurable Easy, Medium and Hard difficulties for amateur players
- Play online with your friends using Game Center
- Unlimited ability to undo moves
- Redo previously undone moves
- Move highlighting to suggest possible moves
- Game timer with duration options
- Animated moves
- Board rotation to allow each player to view the board from their point of view
- See pieces that have been captured
- See the list of completed moves in Standard Algebraic Notation
- Select a completed move from the move list to go back to that move
- Choose between light mode and dark mode
- Sounds during gameplay
- Settings sync across devices with iCloud
- No ads
Chess Deluxe is a universal purchase and includes a macOS version of the app. Buying this app allows you to download the macOS version using the same Apple ID.
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Chess Deluxe on 25th December 2022:
Thanks for playing Chess Deluxe.
New
- Change between light and dark mode independently of the system in Settings
Improved
- Hard computer difficulty has been made harder
- Improved quality of chess piece graphics
- Improvements for iOS 16 and Stage Manager
Hear from the Players – Chess Deluxe Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Chess Deluxe:
Fun Chess app. Easy setup,,,fast play,,progressive levels of difficulty. Has all a casual player could want. Inexpensive for hours of entertainment.
Is what it is. The computer goes from entry-level to whoop you right real quick just between normal and medium. Some intermediate level would be nice.
This is a good basic version of a chess app. However there are a few things that could be improved upon. We would definitely give it a 5 if some of these things were fixed. – make it so we can see the g on the g column. The lower part of the g is cut off and it looks like an a. – we play using the letters and numbers of the board so having those situated in a way where they would be visible even with pieces on the square would be immensely helpful. (Maybe put them outside of the board?) -I purchased this version of the game for our Mac for $2.99 expecting that we could switch from our iPhone and Mac and keep playing the same game but that is not the case. (Unless we have missed some cross compatibility sign-in somewhere). Its not a big deal but it would be a nice feature for a paid app on Mac. Overall its a good basic chess app if you just want to play by yourself or with a friend.
Muy Bueno, deberina de poner sonido, gracias!
We were frustrated by how ‘easy’ wasn’t easy for us . . . Though apparently too easy for other users. Ah, well . . . Anyway, we also felt that the hints weren’t helping much . . . So we vowed to give it one more try. You must have been reading our mail, as they used to say. We asked for a hint at just the right time, got mate, and was able to see how it was done . . . What I’d have missed, probably, on our own. So, okay . . . On we go.
The computer alwasy wins – even on "easy" setting. We even let the computer recommend all white moves and white still lost by 25 points. We didn’t learn a thing other than the computer is smarter than we am. We gave up and trashed the game.
We just played our first game of chess on this app and played against a computer just to try it out. We tried to castle our king and rook and it would not let us. If there is no fix for this than this is a terrible app and should be fixed immediately.
The computer vs one player is very weak regardless of setting. This app is okay for two player games but is of no value vs computer. It gives up the queen readily.
Great Chess program. Everything we want.
How do we turn off the timer? We dont want a time limit!
This used to work well but we guess the last update broke it. When we now corner the black king in a single player game it just moves up to our white king. Very odd!
Very nice and simple to use and no annoying bells and whistles. Thanks.
The worst. Game says it won when it is loosing.
Other than that, it’s fine! Game does not have chess rules implemented correctly. One-player mode calls stalemate whenever computer king cannot move, even when other legal moves exist. Computer castles even after king has moved from original position – illegal. This is apart from the absolutely ridiculous gameplay in which the computer simply throws pieces out to be taken. Can’t get Internet mode (what we bought it for) to work. IOS version doesn’t allow searching for user IDs. OS X version (yes, we bought both like an idiot) allows searching, but it doesn’t work – can’t find our friend who is logged in and sitting across the room watching.
We can’t even play the game 1 player or 2 player we can only do a online game. THEY SHOULD REMOVE IT. It’s a WASTE OF MONEY.
It doesn’t even let u play theres no play button so don’t buy it’s a waste of money.
The app will only let you put in player name and just stays on that page in 1 or 2 player mode.
There’s no way to start a game. Do not pay $$$ for it.
We love chess more than anyone… We were in an epic battle with our friend and since we took to long to place a move, It timed us out. We were so mad that after paying two bucks we deleted the app. We am, by the way, an active chess tournament player. We love this game but the app is terrible, so please DO NOT buy this.
Rook was unable to move to corner piece for no reason ( could move to every square except that one) and check was made but counted as check mate. Terrible programming, waste of money. DO NOT BUY, TERRIBLE GAME IF YOU WANT TO PLAY CHESS AND NOT SOME FACTIOUS VERSION OF IT. Would like money back ASAP.
Lots of bugs in this game. If your king backs up to your own first row, it turns into your opponent’s queen! Sometimes completely valid moves are blocked too. We like that you can play with 2 players, but until the bugs are fixed we won’t be playing again.
Can’t play online without one player always having to redo last move to be able to make next move. Bought for online play.
We bought this app to play two players with our son. The latest version is Perfect. THANKS!!!!!