Chess Prime
Experience one of the top-rated Free games on the App Store, Chess Prime! Developed by the innovative team at Anton Vinokurov, this Education game provides a unique gaming experience like no other. With a content rating of 4+, it’s perfect for a wide range of players. Since its initial release on 7th May 2013, the game has seen numerous updates, with the latest version launched on 14th September 2017.
Are you a fan of Education, Board, or Strategy games? Then Chess Prime is right up your alley! You won’t be able to resist its appeal.
User Ratings of Chess Prime
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How Much Does Chess Prime Cost?
Good news! You can download Chess Prime on your iOS device absolutely free!
Chess Prime Release Date
Eager to know when Chess Prime first graced the App Store? It was launched on 7th May 2013.
When Was Chess Prime Last Updated?
The latest version of Chess Prime was updated on 14th September 2017, ensuring a more enjoyable gaming experience for all players.
Where Can I Download Chess Prime?
To get started with Chess Prime, head over to the official Apple App Store.
A Glimpse into Chess Prime
- Importance of chess –
Chess is one of the ancient games in the world. Chess has become so increasingly popular that there was a time when chess was considered "Royal Game", but is now a common source of entertainment for a common man. In many parts of the world (in schools) chess has been introduced as major part of the curriculum, because chess increases the mathematical and scientific skills of the students. Chess also increases the problem solving skills, a sense of confidence, a self-worth and the communication skills.
— Why Chess Prime? —
Chess Prime is one of the best designed chess games for the iPad / iPhone (1,000,000+ downloads so far). It provides learning support for novice players, a real challenge for the experienced players and fun.
Chess 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 chess 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: Chess Prime AI engine plays like a human, not as a computer that always chooses the same move at the same position. It gives you opportunity to play different famous openings to gain extensive experience in chess. This feature is activated automatically in the game with high difficulty level.
- SETUP game: Start the game from any desirable position with any number of pieces
- UNDO function if you accidentally hit wrong piece or square. It works even if your king is checkmated.
- REDO function if you missed the opponent’s move. Just press EYE button and Chess 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 chess 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 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)
If you love playing chess in landscape mode and in 3D, then download and try out our new Chess Prime 3D app!
Enjoy!
What’s New in the Latest Update?
Find out what’s new in the latest version of Chess Prime updated on 14th September 2017:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Minor bug fixes
User Reviews on Chess Prime
Looking for more information? Read a comprehensive review of Chess Prime below:
Very fast. Easy Pickens through level 4 (my rating @ 1800) but must concentrate to win on level 5 and cannot beat level 7 at all. Only suggestion to improve is automatic alternation of white and black to open. But great app as does not slow you down with 3D graphics.
Please explain when playing against the computer who only has its King left, and we had our King, Queen, Castle, Bishop and Knight left and the game is a Draw? Are you kidding? We were moving in for the kill. Let the game play out.
Am truly grateful to have this system in our cycle of references & resources! In our late years am reacquainting myself with Chess, as a means of staying mentally sharp; as well as an outlet, to quench our competitive nature, enjoyably! Respectfully Thankful, xSpyridonGermanKoukouzelis.
Ads are short, straight forward game. A good choice to play some chess.
Its been a while (30+ years) since playing serious chess and forgot most of the defense and with this app, we might be returning to our old form of playing seriously.
Love it .. Our child needs to stop running ahead.
Playing with the computer has resulted only in 1 paltry win, 1 draw and numerous times of pie in our face. We are an average player and this is giving us a bad complex as we feel we are playing with a chess grandmaster!!!
We HATE THE clean storage APP ON THIS THING.
HORRIBLE cheating by ads INTERFERING and distracting you during the playing of the chess game!!!! Its like several people talking loudly around you while you are taking a final exam in college… ++ … !!!!!
We started playing this chess game about a week ago. A week ago we were a novice. Now we’re not. We can undo our moves and see our mistakes. Great graphics too!
Its the best chess game we ever played! Great music and graphics, and is a good challenge. We really like save/load/redo options, many other chess games dont have those options. Show legal moves is helpful as well.
The only thing is that sometimes when we promote a piece or get a checkmate the game will glitch, exiting the app and reseting the game.
This version of chess plays well on our IPAD… Opening book has both new and classical variations if you are an e4 or a d4 player.
We are impressed with the graphics.
Hate the computer but great challenge!! Only thing would be cool if you didn’t have to switch sides when playing 2 player?