Square Off - Chess Set

I know in my case my router needs to be replaced it is very old. I have trouble playing on chess.com by wifi often losing my connection. My office is at the other end of the house so I just use my 4g internet but I have a tethering feature using my phone as a hot spot to my laptop.  The feature on my phone is another $30 a month but I have a property that I spend a lot of time at that has no internet is how I got started doing that so I just use it in my office since I need that feature when I travel anyway.

My router is 6 years old so I guess it needs replacing too. 

With the released of time controls I wonder if anyone is interested in starting a league for Square Off users.

I am!!

I created a club on chess.com to make this easier. Please search and add Square Off Chess Club

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I've seen vday20 as a code too. 20 percent off!

It is great that they added time controls!! Now the fastest one I can see is 15+5. Yesterday somehow I accepted an invitation to play a 10min game and my opponent was getting 10 sec increments and I was not. I almost lost on time. Does any one have an idea how did that happened? Square off chat said they will get back to me..

Do you remember seeing 10+10 in the challenge or did you only see that you had 10 minutes when you were in the game?

I think there’s a bug when joining games.  If you cancel a challenge the same time your opponent accepts, he’ll end up in the game, but you won’t. I think there’s some other way of joining the game once it’s in progress.  Possibly by accepting another challenge.

The challenge I accepted showed 10m no increment and I wondered right away how that person was able to propose that since is not an option. LOL

Must’ve been an admin account.  I guess there’s some hidden features for testing.

i've had a square off set for several months. the set is reasonable. i understand it's a young company and development is difficult, however, without going into detail because there are too many issues to mention, the app is pathetic. there is no excuse for not recording games, seeing who you're playing, being able to see opponents profile. toggling between chess.com and square off will dump you out of one or the other. come on guys, make an effort. i get the pieces can't move quickly and need to be light. i get integration with other chess sites is tricky and possibly expensive for you, but your own functionality is not improving. are you going to do something or not? if not, i'll get rid off my set.

You sound like a spoiled little brat, no offense. I have had this set since the beginning. They make updates constantly. First it was just an idea. Then it got crowd funding and developed. Then they shipped the product. First you could only play against square off users. Then they developed the "analyze this" app (which records notation and allows you to use stockfish to analyze the games after). Then they integrated it with chess.com. Then they developed the watch live games feature (so you can watch the top chess GMs play on your square off set). They just recently added a leader board and rating system for square off user. I hear next they are designing a tournament mode of our users..... They have made an effort and then some. but it is a small team with limited funding. If you could do better job designing an app Martin, maybe you should go out and do something instead of rudely complaining about it over the internet.

hi jr, i wasn't aware the 'analyze this' app was there's, i thought it was a third party they had linked with. if it is there's i don't believe it's reasonable to ask us to buy the premium version. do you know it's there's?

i did air my concerns with square off to no avail. we all have our preferences so it may be personal. do you really think the basic functionality of the app is acceptable? i'd don't think it should be all singing all dancing, in fact i don't think they should be providing some of the functions they are before the app is in better shape. just my opinion.

as a reference point, what's your opinion of the chess.com app?

ps why would a red cross on the bottom right of the 'play with friends' screen be the button to press to play a game on chess.com?

why not alter that to the chess.com logo or the like before developing new features?

the person who did that would probably do it for free.

Perhaps the improvement concerns the app.

the squareoffs board is better than anything made period

I believe i just received the 2019 edition. The pieces are different, and the board runs very very smoothly. Other than that, I have not noticed any differences.

Hello Martin, excuse me for being rash earlier. I do believe the square off team paid to have the analyze this app made just for the app. I use it all the time though. It is the only chess app i found that can import games from my archived emails properly to the app (without being able to copy and paste the pgn). It was like two bucks bud.... If it was apple or android (or some other big corporation) i am sure everyone wouldn't think twice about buying it but because it is a small business everyone expects it should be done for free lol arg. Support small business. Support chess. two bucks is not unreasonable.

Of course there are improvements in the app i would like to see though. The biggest one is having weekly/daily tournaments for square off users. I believe the square off team is working on this now. It would also be nice to see the ratings of players on chess.com and square off before sending a challenge but these are very minor concerns... The fact that I can play OTB chess anytime, anywhere is what I LOVE ABOUT THIS SET! It was worth every single penny and then some.