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Chess ∙
Optime Software LLC · 203,362 ratings · ★ 4.5
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Top complaints - extracted from 69 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.
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"game"
34 negative reviews mention this · 49% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App Freezes on Ads. Difficult to enjoy the game due to app pausing on ads forcing to accept ad’s offer and denying rejecting them." - Player-player
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"play"
23 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Chess. I’ll give it one cause I didn’t play that game in my tried it before so I just gave it a one but when I get like used to it when it says you can like read it, I’ll give it a five if I like it cause I usually play chess, but it’s a different…" - Bubble6759
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"chess"
16 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Chess. I’ll give it one cause I didn’t play that game in my tried it before so I just gave it a one but when I get like used to it when it says you can like read it, I’ll give it a five if I like it cause I usually play chess, but it’s a different…" - Bubble6759
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"adds"
8 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Adds. To many adds you can’t play the game" - Jojo ?111
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App Freezes on Ads
Difficult to enjoy the game due to app pausing on ads forcing to accept ad’s offer and denying rejecting them.
Chess
I’ll give it one cause I didn’t play that game in my tried it before so I just gave it a one but when I get like used to it when it says you can like read it, I’ll give it a five if I like it cause I usually play chess, but it’s a different version and it’s usually not my favorite and I do it in real life, but I don’t think this will work so I just did a one, but if I don’t like it all day, I can just give it a zero I don’t have to like it, but do I have to cause I don’t really like this. I’m like like electronics and stuff but I like to play like on like real life game. See if we can do it like a try to see if it will work some of that but right now I’m new so I’ll give it about like one or zero thank you
Insta Deleted
Couldn’t finish game until forced into App Store for a different game advertisement. Tried to wait for a skip button.. nothing. I Closed app not wanting to go through the App Store and reloaded game just for the same issue. Tried interacting with advertised app still no skip… finally hit App Store button and oh wow it instantly went right back to the game like I wanted… I’m never using this chess app ever again. Every other experience I’ve had on other chess games was better than this.
Great game
TOO MANY ADS HONESTLY THIS SUCKS
Frustrating
The software ads are getting ridiculous. You have to click on x to get to y and click on y to get to z and then you get to play chess. Absolutely stupid and unnecessary
Ads ads ads
The ads before a game block the game for too long. Sometimes forever.
Rye-bread
Too many ads, and I can’t shut them off and play chess
This isn’t Chess
I downloaded the game and all I got was an interactive ad for another game I couldn’t skip. I immediately uninstalled it.
Adds
To many adds you can’t play the game
Too many ads
Couldn’t even start playing without sitting thru their bs ads
👎
You cannot win
Ads
Haven’t played 1 game of chess because the ads dont
stop
stop
To many ads
Filled with ads before the game is even loaded
Ads don’t close
The ads will not close. Find a better app!
Too many ads
Whatever joy could be found in this app has been rendered useless by the excessive ads
So many fkng ads
Just downloaded and popped up like 10 ads even before showing the game screen. Useless
Ads
Good if you like ads. Lots. Of. Ads…
Ads everywhere
Nothing but ads, can’t even play a game. Too many ads. Avoid this app.
Bad
This used to be my favorite app for years but they messed it up with that stupid tedious add in the beginning making it hard to just play so I’m about to delete the app, sorry you let money destroy you
Adds adds adds
Cant get past the adds, worthless
Chess
Horrible game would not let be move any of my pieces that were about to get taken that clearly could move
Cheating
Trash
Way too many ads
Unplayable game because the ads simply block any play at all.
Sux
This one stinks. Who ever put this out needs to quit.
Pos game!
Pos game!
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Stupid
ADDS
ADDS
Unskipable ads
Terrible adds that force you to play some random game each time
Bad
Random pieces just decided not to move.
Ads are annoying
Everytime you open the app or start a new game ads bombard you and cancel out everything else you have going on whether that be music or a video playing.
Nothing but Ads
Worthless waste of time. Don't bother downloading this app, you'll get ad after ad and a warning that your phone is being attacked by 243 virus so you should download another app to protect your phone.
Tim
Spammed with silly games, full of
nonsense. I just want wanted to play chess
nonsense. I just want wanted to play chess
You can do better
I played this and I COULD NOT MOVE AT ALL like I tried everything and 1 works. I am disappointed.
WTF
Haven’t been able to play one game, an ad pops up every time I try to start with no option to close the ad. Close app & start again, same thing, just staring at an ad screen with no way to close it.
This SUCKS!!!
It forces you to watch the and play the games and locks you out of the game and ruining your play. This app SUCKS TERRIBLY. JERKS
Showed me a loud ad when loading the game
This game displayed a very loud advertisement to me upon trying to load the app. This is a horrible experience and I will never use this program again.
Adds you HAVE to interact with
Yeah I’ll just find another chess game. You literally have to “play” the add then you have to go to the App Store and tell the App Store you’re “not interested”.
Not fun
Ads are too long.
Too hard
I am terrible at chess so please make it more easy
Too MANY ADS
Way to many ads I’m here to play chess not buy something
Easy difficulty is hard somehow
When I played easy difficulty it was hard and I couldn’t win so it’s really hard for beginners like me.
Annoying ads
Started off as a good chess app and the ads where annoying but reasonable but now they are just unavoidable, long annoying so I deleted the app all together.
Don’t bother
Barely get to play . 90% advertisements . I gave up trying to play
Waste of time
You have to play an advertised game to get into the chess match.
For chess
This game absolutely sucks
Do not download this app😡
Because it gave me too many ads And also it will not let me play the real game and it’s just annoying and not learning just ads popping up every single time😡
Hell with these ads
I hate this app, you can’t skip ads. Worst
Deleted immediately
After it downloaded and i opened it FOR THE FIRST TIME there was immediately an ad. Never deleted an app so quickly.
Sucks
Sucks #2
5 min of adds
Not worth waiting through the adds
Too many adds makes the game unplayable
Literally I can’t get past the add upon opening the app.
This game is bad
Most of the time when I open the game it gives me an add I can’t get past the bots are either really stupid or incredibly smart and you can’t even castle in this game nor can you en passant
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Sentiment summary
88%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
7%
Negative (1-2★)