The ChessBoard

Not bed

This is very good game I love it

Add the freakin en passant

Don't make such games

Doesn't have the move: en passant

Terrible programming. Super buggy. Pieces appear and disappear randomly. Allowed my black king to castle king-side from b7.

Very good start; please develop! The game sometimes loses track of Rooks after castling (the rook won't move from its new square) and alphanumerics beside the board could really help in following published games. Would pay good $ for an ad-free version then.

I wanted to like it. But not only are the black pieces always upside-down, but my daughter accidentally hit the "back" button on my phone and it closed the app and ended our game. Going looking for a different app.

This is the perfect replacement for the pocket chess set I used to use for following analysis in books. If you included a bookmark feature to provide a shortcut for returning to a particular position (rather than keep pressing Undo) that would be really useful. Thank you for a terrific, simple app!

This could be more useful if users could set the pieces on the board and set next players turn in order to study specific boards / piece layout in mid- to endgame scenarios without having to 'play' all the moves that led up to that point.

I would give this a 3 star rating since the design is simplistic and neat although it is a bummer that it doesn't support en passant, one of the special moves in chess besides castling

Exactly what I wanted

We enjoyed this at first. The interface is intuitive and seems well thought out. The first sour note was the frequency of scare ads suggesting that my phone had a virus or was low on storage. More seriously, the game allowed Black to castle King-side after K had moved to Q position. The intuitive interface has a number of visual bugs that make moves irritating after a while. Nothing that couldn't be fixed, though, and I would give it another try.

Dear Reader. Picture yourself lounging around the house; a few hours to spend with nothing to do. "Aha! A chess book!" you exclaim. "Perhaps a book on theory like 'The Lion', by Leo Janssen." You lie back, and open the book. "1.e2-e4 d7-d6 2.d2-d4 Ng8-f6 3.Nb1-c3 Nb8-d7..." and makes you go over the variations. Instead of lounging and reading a book you are now hunched over the chessboard doing work. This app lets you read in peace, with minimal effort from your subconscious and absolute zero distractions.