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Chess for Watch & Phone – Education Game Review
Chess for Watch & Phone is a Education/Board/Strategy game from Diem Le, first launched in 17th December 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 56+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Chess for Watch & Phone Stand Out
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.
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Chess for Watch & Phone is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th December 2024
Recent improvements include:
- Update game balance.
Download & Availability
Chess for Watch & Phone is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Chess for Watch & Phone 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:
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.
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.
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. (our 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.
You cant play multiplayer with someone not sitting next to you.
Theres no takeback option. Especially on the watch, we lost material by mistake :( Theres also no settings option.
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.
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.
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.
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.
App always froze on our phone immediately. Felt like we were scammed for a dollar.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5.0
- Size: 18.51 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Diem Le]()
Last updated: 17th December 2024 | Genre: Education, Board | Developer: Diem Le