No, bishops don't have force fields. We looked it up.
Cyber Chess Ultimate Online Chess isn't some lost William Gibson novel; it's a decent chess app that's put in check by a lack of features and polish.
Solo games offer five difficulty levels from Easy to Expert, and you can save multiple games to revisit later. You can undo your most recent move, and the aggressive, predictable AI in easy levels makes good practice for beginners. But Cyber Chess lacks novice-friendly features like a display of legal moves and strategy hints. Worse, you can't visually review previous moves; you can only read them in chess notation that's generated as you play. You can, however, play your own music during games.
There's no two-player pass-and-play mode, but you can challenge players logged in to freechess.org and text-chat with your rival as you play. Matches happen live and can be set to end after a given time limit and played according to one of four variant chess rulesets.
However, there's no indication you've set up an online match successfully until someone accepts your game. Worse, an opponent's pieces often jump to new positions instead of gliding smoothly around the board. Because you can't skip back to review past moves, you must keep your eyes glued to the screen or lose track of those changes.
Solo and online offerings are unspectacular, and both modes need more features and refinement.
Multiple options for setting up online matches. Solo game's AI is good for beginners.
Pieces in online games don't always animate smoothly, making it difficult to follow moves. Can't review past moves easily. Lacks novice-friendly features.
