Chess at ICC, play & learn app good for
This app has everything I could want in a chess site... Very visually-pleasing, and I appreciate the ability to access the Console. Love playing on ICC!
This app was really handy during the World Championship match. I tuned into the broadcast and went about my daily schedule, checking in with the game progress for updates. I dont use it for rated game playing.
I would like to have some bughouse or crazy house on here. I really cant take chess serious on my phone. it will be nice to have some wild games available. Other than that its good.
It needs more features. Not complicated ones, just simple ones that match the non-mobile experience a bit more. Having said that, its a great app to kill time playing chess online.
I really like the mug shot feature of the ICC chess application. The players I meet on ICC play quite strong blitz chess. After practicing for a few weeks on ICC i entered a blitz chess tournament and won beating a National Master and an expert on the way.
Excellent site. Great for learning and many helpful videos in the lines I play
Some bad moments
This app is so miserable and poorly supported that I put it in the Top Ten of the worst apps I have used. Its so bad, in fact, that I sought out a better one and discovered Chess.com, my favorite chess site now. Magnus Carlson has an account and kibitzes on Chess.com.
What makes it so bad? Let me count the ways, but Ill spare you from all of them. I have lost games on time when the app showed that I still had time on my clock. Even more frustrating is that if I seek a game, I am locked into waiting for a player to respond; I cant seek another game with a different time control, nor can I see other seeks. My only option is to cancel my seek to get back to the challenges section.
I thought that I had a workaround by pulling up the 90s-style console (that requires learning its arcane Unix type commands to navigate it), but "seek 3 0" is good enough to seek a 3-minute game with no increments. I can even issue other seeks with different time controls from the console--sometimes.
The problem is that if this app finds another seek that matches mine, a screen pops up saying Im challenging so-and-so. And if the player doesnt accept the challenge, Im locked again from doing anything else.
The International Chess Club is showing its age, and its interface even more. When my membership comes up, I will finally let it expire after 20 years.
It feels like they just gave up on this app. Chess.coms app is WAY better!!! Its always disconnecting and worst of all you dont have anyway to tell that it disconnected you. That is until you lose on time. Awful!
The app works, but the examine functionality is not useful, more like playback. You can not search for games while you have a seek out. If you challenge someone, you must wait to see if they accept before looking for other matches. If all you want to do is play chess, it works, but for other functionality this app fails
Offline mode doesnt recognize draws by 50 moves, repetition, or insufficient material. Online mode wont allow you to correct a mistake in your password. In short, all I can do is play the computer to a win or loss.
I never had a pb with icc b4. The new version made me lost 2 games with unexpected quits! Very disappoiinting! Not recommended! Keep the old one, it never bugs!
Cette interface nest pas au niveau de celles pour PC, BlitzIn ou Dasher.
Impossible en analysant de passer dune position à une autre.
Doesnt reach BlitzIn or Dasher. Impossible to jump from one move to another.