Chess Universe: Play Online
Play chess with friends in online/offline games and learn with chess lessons.
Total ratings
4.36
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Great visuals and animated pieces
- Offers various time controls and puzzles
- Helps users improve their chess skills
- Enjoyable gameplay mechanics
- User-friendly interface with customization options
Cons
- Excessive ads that interrupt gameplay
- Connection issues causing games to timeout
- Frequent cheating by opponents with chess analyzers
- Short auto-resign timer causing unfair losses
- Inaccurate move feedback for beginners
Most mentioned
- Cheating and connection issues
- Ads being too intrusive
- Need for better reporting features
- Desire for pause feature during games
- Concerns over game mechanics not aligning with traditional chess rules
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2.70
All time rating average:
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-25 |  | | I love the game. Appreciate that I can see myself improving. However, there's a lot of times it feels like the AI is cheating because it will force you into a threefold repetition loss because it is about to lose... and it doesn't get penalized for doing its own threefold repetition first. If it is a loss for me, it should be a loss for the AI. |
| 2024-11-01 |  | | Why does a game about complex calculations come with ways to annoy your opponents in the middle of a game? The game has a cannon you can buy ammo for and shoot at your opponent. I don't want to play chess and get Jumpscared by an intercontinental ballistic missile. They've also got forced advertisements before every single match. If you want to play chess there are better apps |
| 2024-10-11 |  | | The 40 second auto-resign timer doesn't always work. I just had to wait over 9 minutes for an opponent to move before the game timed out. Also, it isn't enough time if the player has to leave the game temporarily. Today, I had to make a work phone call. I left the chess app for less than 40 seconds, yet my game still ended and I lost points. The player may need to answer a phone call, which has happened to me. 40-seconds is too short in these cases. Also, 40 seconds is far less than 15 minutes. |
| 2024-07-20 |  | | This game is decent. I think it could use some better involvement in UI and graphics, but it's chess, so it is what it is. The only thing Is that when I get ads to double down on items I've received, it starts to force download games and I can't stop it. It's horrible. I honestly would want an ad frre recompense for this. I'd even give it 5 stars if it wasn't for that. |
| 2024-05-17 |  | | Honestly I like the idea of the app. But the amount of times this thing goes offline. Every time I move a piece it goes offline. I have good internet. I have other chess apps, it never happens. About 1 in 6 games I lose because of connection issues. I'm tired of trying. This is a bug that needs to be fixed. Besides losing games. How much time have I lost on my games because I'm spending 30 seconds 5 times a game just trying to restore the connection. I really wanted to like this app. But Im done |
| 2024-04-21 |  | | Seemingly "magically" reveals checkmate opportunities that weren't apparent to me before. It definitely provides an additional skill set to my chess game. Although I fully trust there will be more and more to learn from this app , I've been spending hours and hours mastering maneuvers of the "Sacrifice Class" ,at least that's what I like to call it : it illustrates the art of strategically losing pieces in order to accomplish what you ultimately play the game for --- to win. Wilfred Matthews. |
| 2024-02-24 |  | | It's difficult to win, which means the elo-rating may be accurate--at least at the highest level. And it's fun figuring out what Bobby Fischer's best moves were. The biggest upset involving this game is if you don't finish your match and put the game on hold, when you get back to it you may be disappointed when the system starts your game over. |
| 2024-02-04 |  | | The game isn't bad by any means, but I am not a fan in the least of the little things, such as if you blunder, it gives you an option to take back your last move and make another. 3 times per game as long as you have those items...im sorry, but that's not chess, nor is it a learning tool. Part of learning and playing is blundering a piece, or making an inaccurate move, and having your opponent punish you for it. |
| 2024-01-26 |  | | Almost every match you'll face a cheater. They have a chess analyzer next to them and playing the best possible move every move. Also there's no way I could find to report the player for doing it, so they can look @ their previous games and prove they're cheating. If you don't care about honest chess, give it a go. Not me, I respect the game too much, zero stars for me, but that's not an option. Not to mention there's way too many ads. The ads will actually interrupt your match too. |
| 2024-01-13 |  | | It's kinda chess. It allow you to touch pieces as many times as youd like with out moving and highlights atks/def/open spaces differently. Also you will play more bots online the people prepare to do far worse then you do in real life with all the extra gemmies for defense thru the highlighting system. And a very hidden messaging system so zero communication. |
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