![]() For starters, the human will make mistakes and won't necessarily play the 'obvious' move secondly, they'll generally play at a lower level (and thus are defeatable!) and finally, there's always a timer (a chess clock) involved, as a way of making sure that you can't just sit and think for ages on a move while your opponent waits and gets more and more frustrated. Playing chess against another human being is a very different proposition to playing a computer, of course. And, if I'm honest, poor UI response times, which don't help when playing against the clock (right) playing here in the Chess Online UWP app on the same Lumia 950 XL - larger board, no ads, taken pieces shown, no URL bar - a much more pleasant experience! On the left, in Edge - playable, but large ads, plus the URL bar. Regardless, it's a fast and fun way to get going in the world of online chess, you set your own opponent parameters and then see who bites! Is it the official application for W10 or a third party web wrapper and if the latter does it get a cut from any in-app-purchases? And so on. ![]() Winning at chess is almost actually easier than figuring out this UWP game for Windows 10, as in how 'Chess Online' fits in with the site. * It turns out that some of the options are really not very slick at all, so I have gone for individual reviews of the best applications rather than another round-up! I promised then that I'd do a follow-up or two looking at playing other people online - and here's the first!* A couple of years ago I looked at chess games for Windows Phone, looking specifically at playing against the phone's AI and not human opponents.
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