Last updated on May 29th, 2023 at 06:30 am
Chess for Watch & Phone
Chess for Watch & Phone is one of the best $0.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Le Thi Thanh Binh, Chess for Watch & Phone is a Education game with a content rating of 4+.
It was released on 17th December 2019 with the latest update 17th December 2021
Whether you are a fan of Education, Board, or Strategy games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
47 people have rated 1.3.0
You can download the game Chess for Watch & Phone from APP STORE.
Description
An excellent board logic game CHESS, now available on your Watch & Phone:
- Play with AI (easy, medium, hard).
- Play with Friends (versus mode).
- Play on your Watch or Phone.
Tips: drag your finger to highlight locations.
Updated on 17th December 2021
- Update game balance.
Chess for Watch & Phone Reviews
Well made and works great, but we dont understand how theres no way to play back against AI?
We really enjoy playing this version of chess on our devices and we think the logic and strategy is excellent. Although there are a minor hiccups such as a pawn making an impossible move, this happens very rarely and we would still recommend this app.
This app makes us laugh, when it moves like lightning and Checkmates us. We respond with a few What?. And then move on. We really like testing openings and Im learning which ones to avoid. We have moved to the Hard mode and have never won, but you can learn by watching what your opponent (always black) does for its counter move. Im playing on our iPhone XR and we know it would take up more mb if you added a black start option, but would like to see it happen. And if you want to go bigger, you could add a little encouragement bubbles. Thank you for no adds, and thank you for your excellent app.
First of all, congratulations to the developers on creating this game. Its totally awesome to play chess on our Apple Watch. We are not really such a great player, but we are a very enthusiastic player. That being said, the engine that runs the game is not so strong. Even on the hardest level, we are able to win without much trouble. (My rating is somewhere around 1400.) If you like Chess, you absolutely should buy this app. Its only $.99. But dont expect a high level game. Someone else had suggested, and we agree, there should be an back button because the screen is so small that we sometimes move the piece by accident.
The app its pretty solid and simple. We like it but sometimes when we are moving our pieces it is easy to make a mistake and place the piece in the wrong square (since the image its pretty smalls). If theres a way to take back your move please let us know and if theres not, developer please add this feature and update it. If so, this app could be easily at 5/5.
Theres no takeback option. Especially on the watch, we lost material by mistake :( Theres also no settings option.
You cant play multiplayer with someone not sitting next to you.
Im editing our original review witch had two stars for the lack of castle feature. Now that full chess is on our watch, this app is as great as intended.
Edit: The developer has fixed our problem and several others as well. This developer listens to feedback! Its everything we want in a chess watch app now, and only a dollar. Rating changed from 3 stars to 5! Previous review: This app looks nice and works well, but once you or the opponent get checkmate or stalemate, the game instantly puts up a huge banner in front of your game, informing you of that fact. Then, once you tap the message, it immediately brings you back to the start screen to start another game. We want to look at the final game board to review how many pieces each player had left, what we could have done differently if we lost, etc. Give us the option to view the final game board before exiting, and we will raise our review!
Edit: wow, every feature was just fixed. The only thing thats keeping this from being perfect is that its hard to play on the watch because its such a small screen (lots of mistake moves because we didnt tap on the precise location). Dont know how that could be fixed though… Maybe an undo button? Otherwise it works. Old review below: No castling, no en passant. If you mistakenly press the home button on the screen (which is easy to do) the game is lost.
We downloaded this app a few weeks ago and so far it beats the original Apple Watch chess app, the app that comes with the watch doesnt even let you play chess on it but this one is just simple and fun. The only bad thing is that the board is tiny on the phone and sometimes on the watch when you try to go to the home screen, or move a player that is in a cluster of other pieces it moves the wrong player or moves yours not where you want it to go. We have had it freeze only once. But overall it is the best chess app for Apple Watch.
App always froze on our phone immediately. Felt like we were scammed for a dollar.