Lots of users so very easy to find a game somewhere in the world no matter what time it is where you are. The courses are also pretty good if you are just starting out or looking to brush up on some skills. The game reviews and daily puzzle are hit and miss - sometimes some good tricks or better moves you could have played while other times it’s pretty clear they are not telling you the right move (and the puzzles have no concept of their being multiple good ways to solve the challenge which can be annoying). Another thing that irks me a bit and would be great to see is allowing chat with a player after the game rather than the BS agro chats you get from some players during the game. When I play in person chess, it’s enjoyable to review the game with your opponent after the match and their is often much less bravado then when online players try to chat to you (typically a stupid and premature laughing emoji or ‘bye bye’ before they realize they walked into your trap) during the game, particularly on the speed games.

omg this is such a great app! I use it every day and the puzzles and lessons definitely help improve tackling bots or my friendsss!!! I use Magnus as my coach cos it makes me feel good as I ‘have a grandmaster as my coach’. The only setback of this app is the limit of puzzles or lessons. I don’t have premium so I can only do a few puzzles daily and one lesson which is kinda annoying. Luckily for my birthday, I will be purchasing the premium so that won’t really be a problem for me but for others who don’t wanna waste money on premium will definitely be ANNNOYING. For those who don’t purchase it maybe let them do a few more puzzles and lessons daily. Other than that, it’s a great app and would definitely recommend for beginners or just anyone ✌️

Update on update - this app continues to get worse and worse every day. Their timer is so far off it is unbelievable. 8 seconds remaining on my clock 1.1 opponents (of course they don’t resign because it’s a platform full of players with no etiquette) and somehow they manage to make 8 moves and somehow my 8 seconds evaporates - it’s total nonsense. Someone invent a better app please. This use to be a good app until they kept adding all the non chess related fluffery to try and attract more players UPDATE - the developers replied saying that they have anti cheating measures. But whatever they are using is not working. This gets consistently worse each day. I attempted to Give another go, but it’s beyond a joke now. Work out a way to stop timer cheats and maybe you can have a decent platform again. I love playing the app when it goes right, in particular I love playing bullet chess as a time filler (really helped with quitting smoking as well) . Problem is though that either the timer is faulty on a regular occasion (games where I have 7 seconds left and opposition has 2 seconds left but someone wins on time making 20 moves in 2 seconds) or the opposition are able to Cheat the timer somehow. Either way it’s super frustrating as the game is ruined

So the game is fun, it teaches you the game and has lots of AIs with different play styles to help you learn, though there is one issue that really ruins the game for me.It often prematurely calls a stalemate. 2 minutes before writing this review, I had a game which I was winning. I had 2 queens, a castle and a bishop while the AI only had a king and pawn. When I was closing in about to get the checkmate, the game called stalemate. My king wasn’t in check, the AI wasn’t either yet. This should not have been a stalemate. This has happened in about 7 games for me so far.I would have rated 4 stars though to get so close to a win so many times just to have it snatched away like that brings it down to 2 stars for me.Also would like to say, there are a fair few in app purchases, but not too much of the game is locked behind them. There is a lot, but you can still have a good experience without spending moneyEdit:Not sure if this notifies the developer though in response to their response, the king was about to be in check, their pawn could move forwards and their king could still move left and right without going into check. All of my pieces could move at least 2 spaces (except king) as well so it wasn’t because mine were trapped. So according to what you stated in your response and the game conditions, that should still not have been a stalemate.