Electronic Magnetic Chess and Checkers Set 10", 8-in-1 Board Games, Digital Staunton Chess Board Game Sets for Adults & Kids, Teenager Toys, Gifts for Boys and Girls Ages 7 8 9 10 11 12+ Years Old

Got this for my 11 year old son, who loves chess. He is enthralled with it.

My grandson LOVES to play Chess. He loves being able to play by himself with a good opponent (I'm not very good! 😀)

I’m playing the checkers game only. It plays fine unless you go to level 10 , then the computer takes a long time to decide its move. On all the other levels it’s ok. Guess on level 10 it had to analyze all possible senarios.I play on level 9 and the typical game takes about 20 to 25 minutes to finish.

I initially wrote a scathing review of this, but some 24 hours later I find myself erasing it, and replacing it with the following.I have this chess set, I like this chess set, but I don’t LOVE it, and I do feel the descriptions of its talking are adequate. I have only so far after 5-6 hours of solid usage heard it say “ careful,” “are you sure” “check” and “checkmate”. It does beep after it’s done with its thoughts and ready to select a move. So it does talk, but it is in NO way a tutor, at best, it’s a chess set that comes with a decent and tailorable opponent already in the box.Why my initial review WAS so scathing was because of the pieces. The pieces... omg they are a joke. I would have no love for this at all and would have returned it but I already had a set of pieces about the same size with MUCH stronger magnets that actual kept in place when I tilted it, or even shook once or twice very hard to test the strength of my new ones which held great, ergo it’s the pieces not the board. The included pieces were a joke, they were barely magnetic at all, but I had a travel set with stronger magnets from Amazon for 7 bucks that I traded the pieces out for.Having griped enough about the crappy pieces, I will say that I am exceedingly pleased with the experience of playing on the board with a computer. I find the chess engine is perfectly tailored to its settings, normal mode is just like playing a normal person who regularly plays chess, I’d guesstimate it at 1200 on normal, but idk YMMV.

Computer is very smart, enjoying this chess game. Played against college son and as you can in photos he beat me bad. It was a Christmas gift and it was a great choice. My children have played chess since they're were 4 and 6 yrs old. Played in UIL school and won many ribbons. Chess is becoming a lost art and hope my review encourages families to put away the screens and try board games and these electronic chess games are amazing when no one is around to play. Easy mode to advance. I recommend to everyone.

I was excited when receiving this, but after playing a game on it, it will never be used again and will most likely end up in the trash.Quality of the pieces is very sub-standard. The pieces are magnetized, but most the magnets are glued in at angles. So none of the pieces sit up straight and all lean to the side. Which creates another problem with the board being able to register the pieces. You have to press them down hard for the board to recognize them.Their advertising makes you think this can also help teach or improve your chess, but thats so not true. Also, you have to manually register each move for the computer to know whats happened.Not intuitive at all. So gifting this to a youngster for them to learn chess on would probably be detrimental to their learning.

Very hard to setup and set mode and hard to set the screen very dim.

I bought this as a Christmas present for my 8 year old Grandson. My son said that it is really nice and that he is learning about the game by playing it. He is very pleased with it.