Checkmate! 4+
Play Chess in Messages!
BorderLeap
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- $0.99
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- Only for iMessage
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Description
Add some competition to your conversations with Checkmate! Play chess against family and friends in Messages!
Simply start a conversation with someone, select the Checkmate! app and tap “New Match” to begin. You can play multiple matches with other people at the same time - even across all your devices!
What are you waiting for? It's time to choose your opponent, make your move and play Checkmate!
PLEASE NOTE: To enable and play Checkmate please follow instructions at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206906. iOS 11 must fully be installed before sending or receiving a move. Enabling and disabling (installing/uninstalling) the game is done via the App Store for iMessage. If you have any questions please send us an email at support@borderleap.com and we'll do our best to help. Thanks!
What’s New
Version 1.4
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
iOS 11, iPhone X support and a new Classic theme! And... now see the latest move within each message bubble! Also a few bug fixes and improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Notes
We use iMessage for everything from keeping up with family news to sending stickers to our significant others. Sometimes, though, we just want to duke it out with knights and kings on the chessboard. What makes Checkmate so great—aside from its super-intuitive interface—is the way we can chat with (and smack-talk) as we play...or take as much time as we need to contemplate our next move.
Well-done correspondence chess app!
The app does a great job of doing exactly what it needs to and nothing more. Lots of apps try to be too fancy, have too many burdensome features that clutter the UI, or find some other way to stray from the main goal. This allows you to play a nice game of correspondence-style chess with a move history and a clean representation of the current board. Well worth it.
The only reason I'm not rating 5 stars is because in my experience it doesn't handle multiple devices very well. If you start a game on your phone and move to your iPad, for example, iMessage has brought the game and the move history over with the rest of your messages but trying to make a move will give you a prompt to start a new game. Maybe this is just a bug and it’s supposed to sync.
I'd even be okay if they clearly handled the circumstance and just informed you that you have to continue on the original device. Of course, getting state sync to other devices would be even better!
Also others have mentioned that being able to preview the move before auto-sending would improve the experience — I agree.
I messed up, but fixed now
I should not have download this app, I sure it is a good app for someone who uses iMessage but that's not me. Now I can not find it to delete it. I guess I will have to delete iMessage from my ipad to delete this app. The link that they talk about does not work. So I am giving this a 2 star only because it is my fault for installing this thing and it is their fault for not giving user an ease uninstall.
Ok I got it deleted with no help, it did take me a while to figure it out. But it is now deleted. I am changing my rating to a 4 star because this is not all their fault and this maybe a very good app for people who uses iMessage.
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- BorderLeap, LLC
- Size
- 53 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2017 BorderLeap, LLC
- Price
- $0.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.