Lazy Chess

"...narrows your choices down to the best 2 possible moves per turn." I would argue against that. Within my first 5 minutes, I saw several moves available that were better than the two options provided. Opponent made several dumb moves as well, including passing over a good setup for checkmate. The UI and UX is terrible - and not because it's simple and minimal (that's actually the best part about it). It looks like some kind of phone-port with a responsive display that forces either a borderless-window or borderless-fullscreen. A third of the menu items are just redirecting you to their other, not-free, "non-profit" games. You open the game and it jumps right in without much explanation or mechanical interaction. Click the board to toggle between your two, given choices then click confirm button to select. That is the entire experience. Storepage presents the game as an opportunity to educate on advanced chess, but instead will leave you feeling like you just tossed a coin several d...

A neat idea but my core complain is that it doesn't explain *why* something was my best or 2nd best move. Adding in some explanations and information about each move as they happen would turn this from a curious toy into a really good and fun practice tool for new chess players.

Really buggy, too bad, a really fun idea

Remember that Penny Arcade strip where the main characters, by thinking of football in terms of video game mechanics, finally realise that it's actually a game like any other? Turns out chess is one too.

Lazy Chess adds a simple but interesting restriction to chess: what if you could only make the best moves available? It uses the Stockfish engine to suggest the top moves in each position, and you must choose one of them, while trying to figure out which one is the best, since that information is not available. So, with 2 possible moves, worst case scenario you’ll play a game where you always play the 2nd best move, which is still enough to win some games. But it’s not so simple, because the AI will adjust the difficulty according to your performance. You have an ELO rating, that I think takes into consideration your wins and your best move ratio. But you can adjust the difficulty manually and add more possible moves (to a max of 4) to add extra challenge. The game also has some extra modes, like suggesting the best move and a random one, and challenges, where you start from some famous positions. I think they’re novelties, but it’s nice to have extra content. There’s also mu...

this is fecking bullshit, the only moves they let you play are extremely dumb and you cant even move yourself at all. there's no features in this game, if you like to sit around all day playing this nonsense bullshit then you do you

Kind of gimmicky but I love the concept, and for it´s cheap price it´s easy to recommend

This is a great game. Just needs some UI tweaks to be amazing. It's worth its money.

Sounds like a gimmick, like some 'idle game' that'll be fun to click through once or twice just to see the pieces move. But it's surprisingly fun. Especially on settings other than the default. If you want to play chess without either having to study it for quite a while (even just memorizing the common openings and responses would take a while) or making a lot of rookie mistakes that, IMO, just feel frustrating... This game's a pretty good way to do so. You definitively CAN lose, especially on anything other than the initial, 'easiest', setting.

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