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<blockquote data-quote="smbhax" data-source="post: 146303" data-attributes="member: 396"><p>I had it on PS3; the PS4 version looks identical except for slightly nicer graphics (they're quite nice on PS3 already). I ended up not playing it much, two things kinda bugged me: 1) how the cursor always switches back to your king when it's your move, instead of staying on the last piece you moved--an option to have it do that would be nice, and 2) you can pan the camera around a little while sitting around, but it doesn't give you full movement control, and it doesn't stay where you set it, but immediately resets as soon as you release the stick--so there's little point to the environments looking so nice as the game really just forces you to stare right down at the board from a straight-on view which kind of makes it hard to see pieces that are right next to each other in the same column. While watching a stream of a game played on the PS4 version I found that I much preferred seeing it while it showed a tiny 2D board during the opponent's move (this was a replay of a play-by-mail type multiplayer match, I guess?), and I wondered if I could set Pure Chess to play entirely in a little 2D board view like that. I'm not sure you can, but it eventually occurred to me that I could probably get a tiny 2D version of chess on my Android, and for free, and what do you know, you can--"Droidfish" on Android is free, ad free, runs Stockfish, currently rated the second-best chess engine in existence (Stockfish, which is open source; the highest-rated engine is an expensive proprietary commercial one), and has a very nice, clean interface. Recommended! : D</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smbhax, post: 146303, member: 396"] I had it on PS3; the PS4 version looks identical except for slightly nicer graphics (they're quite nice on PS3 already). I ended up not playing it much, two things kinda bugged me: 1) how the cursor always switches back to your king when it's your move, instead of staying on the last piece you moved--an option to have it do that would be nice, and 2) you can pan the camera around a little while sitting around, but it doesn't give you full movement control, and it doesn't stay where you set it, but immediately resets as soon as you release the stick--so there's little point to the environments looking so nice as the game really just forces you to stare right down at the board from a straight-on view which kind of makes it hard to see pieces that are right next to each other in the same column. While watching a stream of a game played on the PS4 version I found that I much preferred seeing it while it showed a tiny 2D board during the opponent's move (this was a replay of a play-by-mail type multiplayer match, I guess?), and I wondered if I could set Pure Chess to play entirely in a little 2D board view like that. I'm not sure you can, but it eventually occurred to me that I could probably get a tiny 2D version of chess on my Android, and for free, and what do you know, you can--"Droidfish" on Android is free, ad free, runs Stockfish, currently rated the second-best chess engine in existence (Stockfish, which is open source; the highest-rated engine is an expensive proprietary commercial one), and has a very nice, clean interface. Recommended! : D [/QUOTE]
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