If Chess.com did manage put an app on the Nintendo app store and even if it only contained their collection of chess bots, at the correct market price, it would still make chess.com a pretty penny.
Chess.com on the Nintendo Switch?
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Nov 21, 2020
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True though not only kids use the console.
If Chess.com did manage put an app on the Nintendo app store and even if it only contained their collection of chess bots, at the correct market price, it would still make chess.com a pretty penny.
If Chess.com did manage put an app on the Nintendo app store and even if it only contained their collection of chess bots, at the correct market price, it would still make chess.com a pretty penny.
And in the mean time you can use the checker pieces and pivot the camera angle for straight down view, creating an effective semblance of 2D
Nov 23, 2020
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Except the opponents chess pieces are upside down and the environment lighting does not make the easiest of viewing.
The save game screen shows a 2D board but they did not want to incorporate it into the main game because the whole premise is to flog their 3D sets.
The save game screen shows a 2D board but they did not want to incorporate it into the main game because the whole premise is to flog their 3D sets.
This is true. All those fancy sets put under terrible lighting. I use ps4, and could never imagine chessultra on mobile being a good experience
ChessUltra is VR-enabled for PS4 owners.
Never tried it. Pretty sure you can only play against a grim reaper sort in VR, and that’s hardly worth the expense imo
Nov 24, 2020
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I read on a Reddit post that Pure Chess is the predecessor to Chess Ultra and is a better experience.
Reasons stated are things such as choice of music genre, chess sets that are micro transactions on Ultra are (or were) included on Pure Chess as standard.
To sum up the guy said that Chess Ultra is cut down version of Pure Chess. The latter is on Steam for PC.
Anyway, I just wonder if Chess.com is missing innovation opportunities such as creating an affordable bespoke physical board to use on its site - looking like a missed opportunity now. Expanding its userbase to those who may want to access site functionality on their e-reader or mobile console for whatever reason. I am sure there are other examples.
History is littered with companies that failed because someone else providing the same service innovated - or even worse a newcomer to the market brought innovation. Apple, Google and Amazon all leave behind competitors who thought they could rely on their stagnant business model.
In the meantime, Chess.com is an outlier so doesn’t have to worry about any of that....yet.
Reasons stated are things such as choice of music genre, chess sets that are micro transactions on Ultra are (or were) included on Pure Chess as standard.
To sum up the guy said that Chess Ultra is cut down version of Pure Chess. The latter is on Steam for PC.
Anyway, I just wonder if Chess.com is missing innovation opportunities such as creating an affordable bespoke physical board to use on its site - looking like a missed opportunity now. Expanding its userbase to those who may want to access site functionality on their e-reader or mobile console for whatever reason. I am sure there are other examples.
History is littered with companies that failed because someone else providing the same service innovated - or even worse a newcomer to the market brought innovation. Apple, Google and Amazon all leave behind competitors who thought they could rely on their stagnant business model.
In the meantime, Chess.com is an outlier so doesn’t have to worry about any of that....yet.
Pure Chess is superior in a lot of ways to Chess Ultra. Although it seems to focus on figural pieces rather than traditional and I find some of its music selection to be crushingly emotive. It would be great to see a company create digitized versions of historic chessmen and locales, like the sort posted by the top collectors here. I guess it may be too much to ask of any developer for a virtual chess museum and for people like myself with very little opportunity for otb and no real reason for spending big on museum quality, this will always be a dream, and something to patiently hope for. Take note developers...
The deal breaker is that there is no 2D board. Not even a 2D board to accompany the 3D board like the PC version of Lego Chess.
I can make out the pieces much more easily on Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics chess but for a program that is designed to introduce people to games that they may not otherwise consider, it is appropriate that the levels are very easy. I can beat level “Impossible” every game and that’s saying something for a Novice player like me.
So it begs the question, what is the difficulty bringing a small chess.com app to the Nintendo Switch platform?
If the reason is that Nintendo Switch has a large juvenile user base and Chess.com is supposed to be an adult site then as we know there are an increasing number of juveniles bouncing around the forums who have jumped ship from ChessKids, it is not really a believable reason, especially as chat and forums could be disabled on a Switch version if needs be - perhaps via the devices’ parental controls.
Even if Chess.com tested the water using just their new ensemble of bots it would be something - and would solve my problem of there being no decent 2D chess app on the Nintendo Switch.