- Publisher: Zach Gage
- Release Date: Oct 13, 2016
- Summary: Really Bad Chess is just like chess, but with totally random pieces. Try 8 Knights, 4 Bishops, and 3 pawns — why not? Whether you play chess daily, or quit just after learning the rules, this small twist will open the door to an entire new world of chess.
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- Developer: Zach Gage
- Genre(s): Miscellaneous, Board / Card Game
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 3
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Mixed: 1 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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Oct 22, 2016Really Bad Chess manages to be more than it may appear on the surface, as through the intrinsic unfamiliarity that the randomisation of pieces causes, the app becomes a way for both beginners and veterans to learn how to read the board, react to contrasting scenarios, and eventually become better at the game. This accessibility, and how it has managed to turn the relatively mundane task of learning chess into an extremely enjoyable experience, is mightily impressive, and even more so when you consider than none of this has been accomplished through excessive gimmicks or trying to reinvent the board. Really Bad Chess isn’t really bad, because it isn’t really chess - it’s something better.
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Oct 22, 2016A silly, irreverent take on chess that somehow manages to be an awful lot of fun.
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Oct 22, 2016The core idea is a wild twist that still maintains the essence and strategy of the original game. The presentation is simple but functional and beautiful, even before you include the nine color palette swaps available in the full version. With more variety in its modes and improvements to the A.I., Really Bad Chess would be our preferred way to checkmate.