Chess at ICC, play & learn App Reviews

Works well! Great!

Works great!

I’ve been on this online club for decades, but seeing this latest app… it is just so terrible I am forced to look for another alternative!

Really nice, clean revamp and relaunch for ICC. This is really promising—some of the other sites have lost focus of what made a good chess app, so this is encouraging. Excited to see what is next. EDIT: Could we please get landscape mode on tablet and a few more theme choices? These would be my top two items. Keep up the good work!

I’ve been playing on here for years but I’ll be canceling my membership. Update has ruined the site. It used to be great. Nothing is the same. Rated games are flooded with guest players whose ratings are useless. I don’t see any of the old players from before on here anymore either. They must have all cancelled as well.

Please make the board stay still when I’m playing on my phone Lichess does not scroll away maybe take a hint from them

it’s basically the ICC mobile website loaded in embedded browser

After the update, the app took a big step backwards. Things that MUST be fixed: - when analyzing past games you must show the clock for each player as you step through the moves - when you show the game history you must show my rating after each game, not just my opponents rating. You also need to show how the game ended (checkmate, time expired, resigned, or draw). - the game history should be a menu item, not a submenu of Analysis

Why is this app taking steps back? iPad version is now stuck on vertical which makes it unusable. Options for game boards and pieces are limited more than the previous old version.

All reviews of this app prior to the most recent update should be deleted. The new app bears no resemblance to the prior version. Allowing this app to retain the prior reviews and stats is highly misleading. The average review since the update is one star and that’s what should be reflected in the star rating.

been playing on icc for decades now this new app has ruined everything!! can’t play can’t log in?

I don’t write reviews. This probably is my first review. Everyone that was involved in the design and approval of the updates should be fired. An app update shouldn’t change the user experience completely. This update makes the visualization so jarring that I can’t even figure out what my move or my opponent’s moves are. If the update is not rolled back, I will be deleting the app.

This used to be a great app. But after the last update you cannot customize the pieces or the board unless you sign up. Well, I just want to play chess against a computer. I don’t want to have to remember yet another password or read through many, many paragraphs of terms and conditions. The app developers can of course do whatever they want. But I’ll be deleting this chess game and looking for a friendlier one.

I’ve been a paid member for years. The mobile app is horrible. I’ll keep it for now to be able to play on my Mac, but if you force the update I’ll have to use another app. This mobile app is really bad. Whoever looked at this and said, “this awesome has poor judgement.” Don’t take advice from them ever again. It’s so bad, I’m thinking of just leaving altogether. I love playing chess when I’m waiting for my daughter or just chillin out. But now the user interface is not appealing, not intuitive. It’s just bad. Just bad.

I have been playing in this app for a few years. It was simple, easy to get a game, and gave you a fairly accurate reading of your rating. There were some bugs but they generally fixed them. The new interface is horrible. It’s distracting when playing, it takes longer to get a game, and I lost all my previous ratings.. the one feature they added that was a positive was it shows you how it calculated your rating score at the end of the match. But it’s not enough to put up with this and I will not be renewing my subscription.

Love the new update, everything is easier to find and there are players of all skill level. Able to play puzzles for hours without boredom

I’ve read the history of this chess site, ICC. I’m happy those computer programmers did what they did. It made for the phenomenal chess site where I can play chess every day. It is truly the way the chess site is advertised: The premier chess site of the entire world. Thank you, Mark

I can’t get a correspondence game started, I can’t get any help from customer support, and I can’t find any way to cancel membership and get a refund. Don’t waste your time or money with ICC. There are many other better online chess values .

There’s a serious battery drain problem. The phone runs hot and the battery drops to perilously low levels instantaneously. Make sure you play only while charging.

This app does not work properly, yet the developers charge money. Shame on you! Currently stuck in a game that I won and the challenge or new challenge keep directing me back to the same game I finished. Nothing compared to Chess.com or Lichess, which are free.

Navigating this app as a beginner is like getting the moon rocket ready for launch. Ridiculous really.

It is painful play chess with such app, running slow even with a super fast internet connection. Besides those guys never make an up date.

Still the best gaming app ever invented. Helps develop cognitive skills. The shooting apps develop hand to eye coordination but very little to help users develop thinking skills.

Downloaded this app due to frustration with timing issues and glitches at chess.com. Found this app be extremely clunky with huge wait times for each game. Tucking tail and going back to chess.com

All levels can enjoy chess and improve their game using this app!

Chess.com is far superior. If you’re paying for ICC you should really switch over to chess.com. It took me way too long to try chess.com and I’d never even think of going back to ICC. Chess.com is better in every way. Game play. Interface. Practice. Puzzles. Availability of opponents. Way too many advantages to list. Find out for yourself. ICC is old, tired, and outdated.

Over all responsive and easy to play with. Had some glitches like reverse time counting. My move was shown and my time was running. Sometimes it quits and you don’t recognize it. Too often it tells me that after just a few moves the time was exceeded. In reality just a few seconds were used. Same thing with a message that the game was resogned. Ugly and probably easy to fix by the develope

Now stop nagging me to.

This is a real turkey.

2 business days for a response, but rest assured surveys work instantly, and so do premium payments, no problems there

Frequent lag on clock causes much frustration in bullet and blitz. Need to fix it

I reviewed this app years ago and talked about the challenges of an IOS user not being able to delete completed games. Well that hasn’t been resolved as of yet but I’m not mad. It’s still a strong chess app even for IOS users. The function to manually accept challenges isn’t working for me. I wonder if that too is an IOS thing.

The ICC app for iPhones is alright. I just wish the board took up more of the screen and the pieces looked bigger.

Slow, unreliable

During these difficult health crisis times , ICC has offered two free months of service. Very thankful and appreciative. Thank you ICC

Ever since an iOS upgrade ICC will “randomly” lose connection if app is in background. Very frustrating and no help from support.

Really would be nice to add a challenge without using the console

It’s either extremely slow at connecting you with a player (I waited over 5 minutes before losing my patience) or it just doesn’t work. Seems outdated

The app looks ok but it consume too much battery. My phone gets hot when using the application. I do not have this issue with other chess clubs apps

Bring them back! It would be bigly huge and the best ever!

Paid for a 6 month membership. Allowed me to play 2 games, then app kicked me out of account and said I had to purchase membership. Logged into my account online, and saw I had purchased membership. Does not work at all

Best chess app out there.

It’s fast and responsive. Recent updates are great! The share game feature is welcomed! Would like a tournament menu, but other than that, solid app.

Ughhh you have to pay $ pretty much just to sample this app so...maybe I’ll stick to lichess

At some point in chess website history, ICC was surpassed by several other sites, including Chess.com, Lichess, and the ChessBase site. Now, due to declining membership, it can be hard get a game on ICC at some times of the day. Glitches on ICC of various types persist, and the site is very slow to respond to requests for help. During a blitz game today, the clock froze, and after I waited a long time, 5 min. at least, the clock had STILL not restarted. Crap like this is why you should select this site ONLY if you have to. My chess teacher uses the site because he’s too set in his ways to move to a better site. He’s the only reason I use ICC. Since ICC is no longer as good as the other sites, the managers should be discounting the annual fee. $40 per year is way too much for this chess dinosaur. And yes, the blitz clock froze again today. I would guess this website is not generating enough $$$ to keep the equipment upgraded. And if the blitz clock is not freezing, then it screws up by failing to flag an opponent who is out of time, but not moving. Avoid ICC if you can.

It crashes all the time. It did not up until late last year.

Awkward interface. Don’t play 5 min chess on it... you make a move and 30 sec or more goes by, finally you get opponents move, but you look at clock and you lost 30 sec. never had this problem with an android phone.

This app is missing a major feature, that is the ability to flip the board when game in progress. This is a important feature for training and coaching purposes. Chess.com and lichess supports this feature.

I like it

Me gusta esta app porque ahora tengo mas experiencia en el juego y conocimiento

Anytime, anywhere with WiFi, anyone!! Chess on demand!