In this chess app, you can play offline against humans or the Android and access practice puzzles and forced mate sequences. Includes offline play, practice modes, puzzles, and online game options.
AppRecs review analysis
AppRecs rating 2.7. Trustworthiness 61 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 36 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.
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4 star
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3 star
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2 star
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1 star
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Good user ratings
67% positive sampled reviews
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Natural distribution, no red flags
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High negative review ratio
33% of sampled ratings are 1–2 stars
About ChessBack
ChessBack is a tiny, ads-free, but full-features chess application for beginners as well as professional chess players.
Specially, it's fully accessible and allows blind and visually impaired chess players to play online chess with millions of players around the world!
The free features:
- Play offline: Human vs Human, Human vs Android
- Practice: practice with forced mate sequences taken from grand master games.
- Puzzles: solving Mate-in-two puzzles.
- Play online: play online games with players from FICS (Free Internet Chess Server).
Features included in ChessBack Pro package for subscribed users:
- Playing online on Lichess,
- Watching major chess tournaments over the globe online,
- Sending your games to third-party chess engine apps.
How to get playing on Lichess:
- Create a lichess account at https://lichess.org/signup
- Log in and create API token at https://lichess.org/account/oauth/token/create? . Don't forget to turn on all scopes except last one "Play games with the bot API".
- Now you can login to Lichess in ChessBack using username and generated API token.
Attention:
- ChessBack plays on Lichess via open Lichess API that has many limitations in compare with standard Lichess app.
- If you want to play ChessBack in your language that it's not supported by ChessBack at this moment, we'd happily send string resource file in English to you for translating to your language!
- Many thanks to Ana G., Ikrami Ahmad, Claudio Garanzini, Lucas Radaelli, Milos Przic, Александр for translating to Spanish, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian and Russian.
Specially, it's fully accessible and allows blind and visually impaired chess players to play online chess with millions of players around the world!
The free features:
- Play offline: Human vs Human, Human vs Android
- Practice: practice with forced mate sequences taken from grand master games.
- Puzzles: solving Mate-in-two puzzles.
- Play online: play online games with players from FICS (Free Internet Chess Server).
Features included in ChessBack Pro package for subscribed users:
- Playing online on Lichess,
- Watching major chess tournaments over the globe online,
- Sending your games to third-party chess engine apps.
How to get playing on Lichess:
- Create a lichess account at https://lichess.org/signup
- Log in and create API token at https://lichess.org/account/oauth/token/create? . Don't forget to turn on all scopes except last one "Play games with the bot API".
- Now you can login to Lichess in ChessBack using username and generated API token.
Attention:
- ChessBack plays on Lichess via open Lichess API that has many limitations in compare with standard Lichess app.
- If you want to play ChessBack in your language that it's not supported by ChessBack at this moment, we'd happily send string resource file in English to you for translating to your language!
- Many thanks to Ana G., Ikrami Ahmad, Claudio Garanzini, Lucas Radaelli, Milos Przic, Александр for translating to Spanish, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian and Russian.
