iPhone: Chess With Friends
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Chess with friends is NOT a traditional computer chess game. Those have been around since about the dawn of the age of computers. They are a testament to human programming ingenuity and the power computers wield with processors capable of billions of calculations per second.
The Chess With Friends iPhone app takes a more simple, yet fun approach. The game does not play against you, your friends do - and they can be anywhere. Each time you open the app, you'll see all of your current games and which ones it is your turn in. A game can be completed in minutes if you collaborate with a friend, or play out over the span of days or weeks if you only choose to take a turn every few hours or days.
The board layout allows you to easily see all your piece's possible moves as well as go back to see the sequence of previous moves. There is also a chat window where messages can be sent to your opponent from time to time.
Chess With Friends
Version 2.02 | Developed by Newtoy | Free
PROS:
Head to head gameplay
Visual options of attack
Chat
Free!
CONS:
Must connect to network
No "play against computer"
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" Hey this is David Gregory you're watching a judgment today we're gonna be looking a little iPhone -- I'll just have friends."
" This episode about judgment is brought you by Netflix. Something in this person right now and so the animals on all the right pieces that I don't know didn't fare. It's it's just with friends is about one of the field of schemes and histories -- chest. And it's quite frankly the best application for the iPhone right now that you can use to play sets against your friends. In the game you're able to set of games with anywhere in your contact -- a lot of -- to see if there are capable of playing that game with you can do it by phone number by username. Within the application itself within the game itself you can open up a chat window and make comments to -- your honest and you can give commentary feedback you can side with them you can make fun of them where you can praise them. But but the queen comes down here. What's gonna keep me from -- yeah. So I didn't realize just doing -- one of the coolest things about this game. Is that I can actually click on any piece on the entire board and it's my turn it'll put a little highlights on all the places the worth which is certain peace can do on the board. I can tell it to move to that space. And just give and give myself a mental image of what it looks like it'll move the peace there -- can take a look at the board before actually hit submit to see what he's gonna go. Some one of the most useful features for me is the fact I can always go back. To look at the previous moves that I made I can't take them back. But I can go back as early as I want with the back button and they'll go move by move by move where I've been in I think the biggest con about this game is the fact that. Every single move resides on the central servers that run game so the problem for me is one of the coolest times me to play this game. Is actually being there in person with the game. I think if I design the game and its future feature. They'll make it so that you couldn't communicate to your opponent via Bluetooth and have kind of an offline version and have it sync with a server later that's what you want to do."
" Before any new feature a new version has a chance to -- we wanna give a big shadow thanks to our sponsor Netflix with Netflix and get over 90000 movie titles. Lots of blue -- directly to your home. They've got over forty distribution centers which means."
" Most of the movies -- get your place within a day. Movies like -- searching for Bobby Fischer so if you sign up for a two week free trial right now by going to www. Netflix.com slash."
" AJ that stands for -- judgment he gets to week no risk free trial and actually have that movie. Probably in your mailbox by tomorrow check out www. netflix.com slash AJ. Remember the Delhi evidently."
" So yeah we couldn't take so long you can go back to the -- yeah. Let's move fans Egypt seal its camera right there right. Did there old farmers have to check and handouts and so this indeed possible that the timer because you got to know that your buddy you can be an African New York City here are here you have to know."
" Just your friends is a free application. Is arguably at least in my mind the best existing SaaS application. I never even played chess until I got this. Actually taught me the game and got reinvigorated excited about it and it seems it. Absolutely no brainer if you're interested in playing competitive turn by turn game it is absolutely they must download."
" It's. Now and then and then if so I -- it."
" It was too late now he would submit."
" Hey this is David Gregory you're watching a judgment today we're gonna be looking a little iPhone -- I'll just have friends."
" This episode about judgment is brought you by Netflix. Something in this person right now and so the animals on all the right pieces that I don't know didn't fare. It's it's just with friends is about one of the field of schemes and histories -- chest. And it's quite frankly the best application for the iPhone right now that you can use to play sets against your friends. In the game you're able to set of games with anywhere in your contact -- a lot of -- to see if there are capable of playing that game with you can do it by phone number by username. Within the application itself within the game itself you can open up a chat window and make comments to -- your honest and you can give commentary feedback you can side with them you can make fun of them where you can praise them. But but the queen comes down here. What's gonna keep me from -- yeah. So I didn't realize just doing -- one of the coolest things about this game. Is that I can actually click on any piece on the entire board and it's my turn it'll put a little highlights on all the places the worth which is certain peace can do on the board. I can tell it to move to that space. And just give and give myself a mental image of what it looks like it'll move the peace there -- can take a look at the board before actually hit submit to see what he's gonna go. Some one of the most useful features for me is the fact I can always go back. To look at the previous moves that I made I can't take them back. But I can go back as early as I want with the back button and they'll go move by move by move where I've been in I think the biggest con about this game is the fact that. Every single move resides on the central servers that run game so the problem for me is one of the coolest times me to play this game. Is actually being there in person with the game. I think if I design the game and its future feature. They'll make it so that you couldn't communicate to your opponent via Bluetooth and have kind of an offline version and have it sync with a server later that's what you want to do."
" Before any new feature a new version has a chance to -- we wanna give a big shadow thanks to our sponsor Netflix with Netflix and get over 90000 movie titles. Lots of blue -- directly to your home. They've got over forty distribution centers which means."
" Most of the movies -- get your place within a day. Movies like -- searching for Bobby Fischer so if you sign up for a two week free trial right now by going to www. Netflix.com slash."
" AJ that stands for -- judgment he gets to week no risk free trial and actually have that movie. Probably in your mailbox by tomorrow check out www. netflix.com slash AJ. Remember the Delhi evidently."
" So yeah we couldn't take so long you can go back to the -- yeah. Let's move fans Egypt seal its camera right there right. Did there old farmers have to check and handouts and so this indeed possible that the timer because you got to know that your buddy you can be an African New York City here are here you have to know."
" Just your friends is a free application. Is arguably at least in my mind the best existing SaaS application. I never even played chess until I got this. Actually taught me the game and got reinvigorated excited about it and it seems it. Absolutely no brainer if you're interested in playing competitive turn by turn game it is absolutely they must download."
" It's. Now and then and then if so I -- it."
" It was too late now he would submit."
Started discussion: August 12, 2009 @ 9:37am GMT
Episode 2: iPhone: Chess With Friends [Discussion]
In this episode, we take a close look at a chess game for the iPhone called Chess With Friends. This game allows you to play chess against anyone else in the world with an iPhone that has the free Chess with Friends game installed.
Watch or download this episode now!
Great show, amazing app, where has Prager been...
While I have gotten to the point that I hate the forced ads at the start and end of the show, at l now just mute the sound until they are over...is regular commercial next?Back to the episode; a few points:
I haven't played chess in years but tried this app and love it. It has plenty of as many features as any of the chess games I used to play on the PC. I agree with Mr. Prager that it shouldn't be stored/connected only through a central server but like he mentioned, that could be in the next version of the app.
Lastly, about David Prager himself. Why the hell have you been sitting there silently while Kevin and Alex ramble on and on. You are an amazing host. You connect with the viewers as much as Kevin, Alex, any of the TRS gang, Patrick Norton...any of them.
It's really great to see you in front of the camera as well. Great job.
Chess with friends appears to have some problems
I rewatched this show recently and whet to the iTunes store to purchase "Chess with Friends". However, the reviews on the store as well as the support website indicate that the app has the following problems;1. Some users are experiencing a repeating “Oops” screen that states that the game has gone out of sync.
2. On rare occasions, our matchmaking algorithm can get stuck trying to find you an opponent. Normally, this process should only take a few minutes at most.
Since the app hasn't been updated since Feb 27, 2009 it sounds like the developer(s) have gone elsewhere.
I was wondering if anyone has more up-to-date news on this app and could recommend a similar app which perhaps works better. Perhaps David could do an updated show with a few more chess apps.
Thanks for the show.
I'm liking this show, it's a good 5 minute break from work but can actually be invaluable in making decent app buying decisions.