I love chess, and having a chess game on my playdate is great. Still i wouldn't whole heartedly recommend it to everyone.
The game obviously looks and feels great to play. The only way you can play chess is versus the engine, and this turns into my biggest gripe with it
The engine has six levels:
- four moves ahead, two seconds thinking
- four moves ahead, ten seconds thinking
- five moves ahead, 25 seconds thinking
- six moves ahead, 100 seconds thinking
- six moves ahead, 200 seconds thinking
- seven moves ahead, 300 seconds thinking
The first two difficulty levels are really fast, but can be easily beaten. Great for beginners i guess. Level four through six really tests your patience with thinking times at 300 seconds almost every move. And by almost every move I mean if you start the game as black the computer will think for 300 seconds before playing e4. lol. I'm happy to say it will use less time if there is a forced check mate sequence.
I prefer playing against difficulty level 3, I can still easily beat it if I'm focused, bit it doesn't take minutes every move.
I'd love if there was a pass and play mode, where I could play with another person.
auto queen is always enabled, meaning you can't underpromote.