Add some competition to your conversations with Checkmate! Play chess against family and friends in Messages! Simply start a conversation with someone, select the Checkmate! app and tap “New Match” to begin. You can play multiple matches with other people at the same time - even across all your devices! What are you waiting for? It's time to choose your opponent, make your move and play Checkmate! PLEASE NOTE: To enable and play Checkmate please follow instructions at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206906. iOS 11 must fully be installed before sending or receiving a move. Enabling and disabling (installing/uninstalling) the game is done via the App Store for iMessage. If you have any questions please send us an email at [email protected] and we'll do our best to help. Thanks!
Malware?
Not sure how this got installed on my iPhone. It did not had any icon and it was not listed, noticed it listed on iPhone’s settings.
Great but a little buggy
App is very simplistic which is great. I do notice iMessage crashing, lagging, or the chess board disappearing in chat sometimes but doesn’t effect the actually gameplay.
Impossible to uninstall
No icon show on your home page so you cannot uninstall it.
Does not work!
If two people start a game each as white, the whole things crashes and becomes unusable with no way to reset it. Just add a reset button and it would be fine. 1 star until it’s added/fixed.
Does not support en passant moves
I just made what should have been an en passant move and it did not capture my opponent’s pawn.
Fantastic iMessage chess app
This is a fantastic app. I appreciate the simplicity. Please add: - a way to resign a game - dashboard for managing multiple games at once - a score tracker with an opponent to show who has won more games. All in all it works and is so easy in iMessage. Appreciate you people who built it!
App not working right
I can send a first move but I can’t reply with a second move
iOS 11, iPhone X support and a new Classic theme! And... now see the latest move within each message bubble! Also a few bug fixes and improvements.
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