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Chess for Kids: Learn to Play
Chess.com · 98,042 ratings · ★ 4.7
4.7
★★★★★
98,042 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 18 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"sucks"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Meh. Sucks cause you have to pay for it to be fun" - NinjaAidan
2
"everything"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Everything should be deleted. Why do we always get players that have higher ELO than me" - Lucas.L.P
3
"money"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money. Everything you have to upgrade to gold and it’s super annoying! It’s just wasting your money just to solve puzzles. You even have to wait an hour just to do 5 puzzle duels. This game sucks!" - Jake ratings
4
"upgrade"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money. Everything you have to upgrade to gold and it’s super annoying! It’s just wasting your money just to solve puzzles. You even have to wait an hour just to do 5 puzzle duels. This game sucks!" - Jake ratings
5
"gold"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money. Everything you have to upgrade to gold and it’s super annoying! It’s just wasting your money just to solve puzzles. You even have to wait an hour just to do 5 puzzle duels. This game sucks!" - Jake ratings
6
"puzzles"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money. Everything you have to upgrade to gold and it’s super annoying! It’s just wasting your money just to solve puzzles. You even have to wait an hour just to do 5 puzzle duels. This game sucks!" - Jake ratings
7
"game"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money. Everything you have to upgrade to gold and it’s super annoying! It’s just wasting your money just to solve puzzles. You even have to wait an hour just to do 5 puzzle duels. This game sucks!" - Jake ratings
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- Play and learn chess to unlock new avatar items
- Earn gems to purchase outfits
- Customize your look with some of the coolest fits around
- See your avatar come to life in fully animated fashion
Vake your own creation from over a hundred options like h color, eye color, and a variety of fantastic outfits! We can't ' you what more you can do with your avatar in the future!
- Play and learn chess to unlock new avatar items
- Earn gems to purchase outfits
- Customize your look with some of the coolest fits around
- See your avatar come to life in fully animated fashion
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Look, I used to LOVE ChessKids, but then this weird, animated, graphics. It now has a kid, thats not even me and I can’t edit it. Please change it back! I don’t like it! Can you please change it back? The new animated is now looking cheesy, animated, and only for younger kids!
Everything should be deleted
Why do we always get players that have higher ELO than me
Money
Everything you have to upgrade to gold and it’s super annoying! It’s just wasting your money just to solve puzzles. You even have to wait an hour just to do 5 puzzle duels. This game sucks!
I’m so upset about this game because it’s not even helping
The first time was bad enough
Better Chess things
Everything is upgrade to gold, and although there are free things, lichess is a lot better for free, and chessable. Paid ones like chess reps are good but not for kids. However I recommend chessly, it took me from 100 elo to 1000. 10 times more elo. In less than 6 months. Chess kids gold membership isn’t worth it, use your money for a different app. Or If you want to do stuff chess kids stuff for free do unlimited puzzles use lichess if you want videos YouTube. it is true you can play with other kids for free, but why would you use chess kids for that? The match making is slower and the opponent are a lot weaker if you are actually good at the game. You can improve if your playing against weaker players, it is better to play stronger players, if your weak in terms of chess I mean it is fine but nothing too extraordinary that will convince you to use it. The only good thing is the game review that they just added, Probaly find a cheaper app for that. Also you could argue that the learning the pieces if free, but you could use many apps for that, so it is just average. It with not worth the gold membership isn't. So use normal chess.com not the chess.com kids bop version
I hate ChessKid
I can just get one star cause ChessKid is the worst when you try to get into it
How?
How does this terrible app have such good reviews? An abomination. My sons and I couldn’t even add each other as friends or challenge each other. App locked up Mac and ipad. No notifications… did my invite work? My son cant see it. Challenge? No idea
The app is not working in new Mac Book Neo
App is not opening and get stuck in the background. Tried multiple uninstallation and no luck.
Sucks
I couldn’t do anything and I was trying to king to get a check but it didn’t let move
Bad
Bad you spend money and the kick you out of tournaments and delete your account
Horrible
ChessKid is horrible and stinky and
Meh
Sucks cause you have to pay for it to be fun
Not To Bad
⭐️⭐️ make that 1 ⭐️ Duolingo’s 1 is way better maybe 2 ⭐️z
Annoying and boring
This app always makes you do the wrong thing and never gives you a second chance. It also doesn’t have a lot of things that you can do.
Puzzles
There is a problem with the puzzles
Gold Membership Upgrade doesn’t work!
I upgraded to 1 year gold membership but it’s not appearing on my child’s account and there’s no way to access the gold membership account!! This is frustrating!
Sentiment summary
93%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)