Chess.com - Play and Learn

This is a fantastic app. I do however have a few small issues with it. One the engine leaves a bit to be desired in my opinion. I find that it will label moves as mistakes that simply where not and it just didn’t understand what i was doing. Now it’s possible I’m just not a great chess player but I still think it could be improved upon. The other thing I have in mind is a quality if life thing. I wish that you could easily convert games to a PGN file to put them in a database or the app simply compiled all ur games in a data base where u could go back and most importantly go through different variations. I know this is already somewhat a possibility but it could be improved upon. As of now I am copying my games Into a different app and analyzing them there but it would be nice to do everything in one place. The other thing that would be nice would be to have a more comprehensive system to learn openings. Specifically what I have in mind, I’m not sure currently exists, but basically i think it would be really cool and helpful to be able to choose an opening then the computer would play various book moves in the various lines of the opening and you would play and have to choose a response that is a book move. This way you could easily learn all the variations of the Sicilian through rapid trial and error as opposed to laboring over a chess book (as I have been) and trying to go through each variation which has been incredibly difficult for me, especially with openings as nuanced as the Sicilian

I’ve been using this Chess app for about three or four years. It has a lot of additional features like tactics puzzles, videos, and preset predicaments to challenge you and help you set up future moves to create the best situation for your pieces. There is also a play-by-play review of your games which critiques your moves and tells you what you could’ve done better. A couple things that need improvement though. Often the app will fail to notify me when it’s my turn after my opponent has moved, requiring me to open the app and navigate to my active games to manually check if it is my turn. The other issue is that sometimes I will try to start a new game with a friend with the “Play A Friend” option and the app opens the “active connection countdown” when I’m not trying to play a live game. I’m sure there is a way to create a new game with a friend without creating an active challenge, but I am not sure how. If this feature exists, it just needs to be integrated in an easy to find menu. (This review is based on my use from a Samsung Galaxy S5). EDIT: I have an iPhone X now and I am able to successfully use the “Play A Friend” option to create a daily game without the app opening the “Active Connection Countdown” so the issue I stated previously may already be resolved.

I started playing not too long ago and I think that if you have to search up and/or learn "strategies"(cheap tactics) you shouldn't play because you already know you are gonna win so why play? The "Draw" feature is so annoying because it forces me into a draw almost every time I put the bot in checkmate. Why does it do that? Its very annoying because I play without using a cheap tactic--something that peoole without real skill use and still play knowing that they will win(so just don't play and go through the hassle of wasting some of your time on earth) yet they think they are good at any "Strategy"(cheap tactic) game because they have enough brain fuel to steal someone's once ORIGINAL strategy into something that millions of people use thinking they are good. I'm not even telling them to stop because I can't, they wouldn't stop, and there's no point really. I personally don't like it but I don't think there is a single other person that sees it in the same way(there's probably at least three) so just ignore this rating becaude it's not really about the game, BUT the layout is nice and the moves are easy for me to recognize unlike other games. I don't even really want a response to this because I don't want to waste your time on just another angry person so just please ignore this. This is only here for people to read and take into consideration, but they won't, because they are probably playing a "Strategy" game and using a copy and paste strategy. Sayonara