
Progress Chess is the most powerful chess simulator and chess competitions that take place in realistic 3D spaces: from a home apartment to a chess club! Playing in tournaments and analyzing games, go from a beginner to a world champion!
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Progress Chess is a whole chess world on your computer, with its own clubs, tournaments, chess players and awards, where you can study chess and improve your skills, along the way making a virtual career as a chess player from a complete beginner to a master, and maybe even to the World Champion. In this game, chess players of absolutely any level will find suitable opponents.
Here you can compete with more than 80 virtual human chess players of different levels and playing styles: from a beginner who has just learned the rules to an international grandmaster with an ELO rating of over 2700. You can play training games, random games for rating, or you can take part in full-fledged tournaments held according to the round robin, Swiss, or Olympic systems and win virtual awards. Games take place in realistic virtual locations, such as a restaurant, a children's room, a school, or a chess club.
As your skill grows, you will be assigned ranks and an ELO rating. If you are just starting to learn chess, you have several training modes available: a basic course for beginners, where you will master the rules of the game and the basics of chess theory, as well as an advanced course for solving combination problems and studies.
You will find computer models of all past and current world champions plus a huge collection of their games available for study and computer analysis. You can play a game with a virtual model of the champion in the corresponding historical location, for example in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in Moscow!
More than 80 voiced virtual chess players from beginners to grandmasters, each with their own character and playing style.
Extensive training mode capabilities: setting a given position and arbitrary time control: blitz, fast chess, classic, etc.
Play in chess tournaments and cups, move from the beginners club to the amateur and then professional league.
Win virtual prizes and place them in your room.
Detailed analysis of your games with AI comments and showing mistakes made! All your saved and tournament games are available in pgn format.
Take training courses at the chess school and receive virtual diplomas.
More than 40 unique realistic 3D locations where games are held. Play in the historic Column Hall of the House of Unions and feel the atmosphere of epochal matches at the world championships.
Over 20 different sets of 3D chess boards and pieces, from classic Staunton to bizarre ancient Chinese ones.
Three in one: you can develop your chess career in any of three possible modes: classical chess, Fischer chess and transform-chess.
The project is constantly evolving: players can expect free updates, including new chess sets, locations, virtual chess players and much more!
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Languages: English*, Russian, French, German*languages with full audio support
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Hours played at review time, across 26 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Progress Chess. Первое впечатление положительное. Играть в устаревшие шахматные симуляторы, и внезапно открыть для себя этот – наверное, это то самое чувство, что испытывает твоя подруга, которая однажды открыла для себя нового интересного собеседника, который вдруг становится интереснее тебя самого. Ну ещё бы, о тебе уже всё известно, ты старый зануда и уже не радуешь её маленькими радостями, ты слишком застрял в себе и до сих пор не проработал свои проблемы у психотерапевта, чему же ты удивляешься? Мне давно говорили, что это так оно и будет: в Progress Chess я найду возможность укрепить свой опустевший разум, который, надеюсь, ещё можно наполнить хоть чем-нибудь ещё, помимо страданий, коими пропиталось, наверное, уже всё моё существо. И действительно, тут есть отличный режим обучения, который способен научить играть в шахматы даже тех, кто ни разу о них не слышал. Именно поэтому я сижу и смотрю, как мне объясняют, что “ферзь любит свой цвет”, о преимуществах коня перед слоном, и что вообще такое ход. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3658209226 Новички будут в полном восторге! Но и для любителей, отчаявшихся постичь хоть что-нибудь, потому что из этой дырявой головы всё постоянно вылетает, а концентрации не хватает даже на то, чтобы запомнить, зачем был сделан предыдущий ход (мой случай), здесь найдётся немало полезного, единственное, что потребуется от вас – немного внимания и терпения. Впрочем, если вы играете в шахматы, вероятнее всего, вы уже и так обладаете этими двумя прекрасными добродетелями. Особого упоминания заслуживает система подсказок и обучения. В отличие от суровых движков, которые просто ставят перед фактом: “ты ошибся, здесь мат в три хода”, Progress Chess ведёт себя как терпеливый наставник. И не просто указывает на “зевок”, а подсвечивает логику позиций, помогая той самой дырявой голове выстроить причинно-следственные связи. Вы начинаете видеть не просто фигуры, а линии влияния и зоны контроля. Для тех же, кто не отличается особой усидчивостью и чья концентрация тает быстрее, чем лёд в коктейле, здесь предусмотрена система дробного обучения: уроки и задачи разбиты на короткие сессии. Не нужно сидеть часами – зашёл, решил пару задач, почувствовал себя гением и пошёл пить чай. Игра бережно ведёт вас за руку от “как же ходит конь” до понимания того, почему этот самый конь через пять ходов станет королём ситуации. Это не просто шахматный симулятор, а своеобразный “тренажёр уверенности”. После пары вечеров ловишь себя на мысли, что уже не просто двигаешь фигурку, потому что “она красиво стоит”, а действительно понимаешь, зачем был сделан этот ход. Для удобства игрока здесь сделано многое. Не нравятся объёмные фигуры, стоящие перед глазами так, как будто вы сидите за доской? Пожалуйста, в вашем распоряжении целых 4 вариации плоских фигур на вертикальной доске, вплоть до схематических. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3658210891 Здесь также реализован функционал, позволяющий разбирать шахматные партии, с возможностью загружать свои или чужие партии для детального разбора ошибок и поиска лучших ходов. Традиционно для шахматных симуляторов такого типа, вы можете расставить любую позицию из реальной партии гроссмейстера и проанализировать её встроенным движком. Приятное обучение с постепенным введением в курс происходящего, тренировочные партии разных уровней, ну и конечно же, рейтинговые игры и турниры – всё это вы можете найти здесь, на ваше усмотрение. Мотивация в чистом виде с вами и вокруг вас, советы и воодушевляющие мудрые высказывания гроссмейстеров, знакомство с ними в Клубе чемпионов, и даже возможность сыграть с ними (играть, конечно, за них будет компьютер, но он будет стараться подражать им изо всех сил). Вот я только-только вывожу вторую пешку, а Алёхин уже увидел 4 миллиона позиций. _) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3658219589 Из минусов – лично для меня неудобны почти все игровые наборы, не нравятся однообразные реплики ботов (но их все можно отключить), нет информации о стилях игры легендарных шахматистов, также смущает наличие грамматических ошибок, особенно обидно их видеть в цитатах великих шахматистов. Баги пока не попадались, но меня уверяли, что они тут имеются. Впрочем, наверное, как и везде?
A good chess game with single player tournament mode.
A full-fledged chess simulator. There are rating games and tournaments. You can increase your skill level and become a grandmaster. For beginners - convenient training and an excellent training regime. In training mode, you can cancel moves. Convenient for learning. The locations are made in 3D, but you can switch to 2D by pressing one button. The parties are played to pleasant classical music. And the game has well-chosen sounds that create the effect of the presence of the audience and a live opponent. You can hear your opponent recording moves, sighing and grunting (the voice depends on the chosen opponent).
I can give this a somewhat conflicted recommendation, with a few big caveats: First, polish and professionalism is in low supply here. Progress Chess uses a lot of gratis assets from around the internet, and they often seem a bit slapdash in their application (pieces that seem way too big or too small for the boards and (wonky) camera location, a lot of pitch-modified voices for supposed 8-year-olds who curse like sailors, and a lot of really poor English localization). Most of the chess sets are pretty ugly and/or illegible (and thus impractical for play) as rendered here. You have "over 20" sets but I never play with more than perhaps five or six of them. There also seem to be limitations (or bugs) regarding when you can change the set; I can change it on one game, and then play another game in the same tournament where the set is locked for no apparent reason. The audio quips made by the bots are cute at first, but they get repetitive and it's not always obvious how they correlate with the engine's "thought" process. Ditto for the environmental sound effects and music: they are fine in themselves, but played so regularly that the lack of variety becomes grating after a few hours. Most of this doesn't bother me, but it feels very amateurish and makes me question the professionalism involved in engineering and testing the underlying engine (which I'll discuss next). There are a number of unintuitive UI behaviors, and a few bugs too, but most are just annoying rather than game breaking. Second, (according to my discussions with the developer) this game uses a custom proprietary engine that I would classify as "flaky:" the way it plays, at low ratings at least, is inconsistent in an unpleasant way. It's actually very difficult to design powerful engines that can be "weakened" enough so that mere mortals can compete, while still preserving behavior that seems natural, interesting, and fun. This is why creating "human-like" bots has become a much more compelling frontier of research than making more engines that can beat the strongest players in the world with queen odds. My experience playing the Progress Chess bots at low levels is that they will play strong, logical moves that feel beyond the stated rating, and then make huge senseless blunders that no human would consider, in order to bring the overall strength of play down. This makes those games feel at turns aggressively calculated and then completely random, as if a dice throw is determining on which move(s) to make a highly improbable blunder in an otherwise flawless game. The developer was made aware of complaints about these bots, and claimed to "improve" them in the last update, but I haven't noticed a marked improvement; in fact many got worse, in my subjective appraisal. I'm also dubious about the methods used for assessing their ratings, which seem to have far too much variance. I suspect part of the reason the play is so "weird" is that this engine, according to the developer, was not designed for orthodox chess; it was designed to play the unique variant he created and included here (originally called Progressive Chess, which is where the game title comes from, the developer changed the variant name after I informed him Progressive chess was already a widely played variant with completely different rules.) These seem like insurmountable flaws, but the game has an eccentric appeal and a lot of unique features you won't find in other modern chess software. First among them being the unique variant mentioned, now called Transform-Chess. It involves temporal pawn promotion rules, secret information, and multiple choices per move. None of these mechanics are supported by existing variant engines like fairy-stockfish, so it's clear why the dev had to design his own. What's less clear is why he made the decision to spend so much energy building an orthodox chess game on top of it , instead of concentrating on the variant. That said, it's unique and can't be played against any other engine right now. Chess960 is also included, and you can play tournaments in both. There is a lot of emphasis on tournament features and bot personalities. It feels like the dev wants to recreate and expand on the features of Chessmaster, but The King was an engine that had many user-configurable personality parameters, and other UCI engines have been designed around such features subsequently. Does this engine have any meaningful play style parameters? It's hard to know since it's proprietary. There are no such knobs and dials exposed to the user, nor are the technical aspects explained in forums or documentation, so you have to take the dev's word for it, and use your own judgement. The dev also claims to have "modeled" various chess legends. What exactly this means is similarly obscure without technical descriptions, and I'm not a strong or historically informed enough player to make an educated assessment. To use a metaphor, there's a lot of "flavor" here but some of it leaves a bad taste. And the nutrition label is in Russian. TL;DR I would never recommend this as a primary, secondary, or tertiary chess application, but if you are a chess software collector, you'll find some unique fun and novelty here. There is a lot of love and a little too much ambition put into this package, for a reasonable price. The developer merges frequent updates and attempts to respond dutifully to feedback in a timely manner. With a lot of work and some luck, I've no doubt this could be a great, comprehensive, all-round chess game, but in its current state it is an amusing curiosity with some pretty rough edges. If the above sounds appealing to you, I'd say its well worth the $8
This makes me regret getting most of those other chess games on Steam; this is a beautiful game with interesting opponents of varying strengths, games reviews, classes, exquisite chess sets and amazing music/sound effects. It looks great & runs well on my ancient 2016 Pavilion. I also love how you can play rated games with a touch-move option. The opponents will even make comments (or sigh & yawn) depending on how you're doing in the game. Also, you can toggle the camera & switch back & forth between 2-d & 3-d. I'm very impressed.
Very poor balancing issues. Good looking game, good ideas and concepts. However, Massively let down by a quite ridiculous opponent system. Even at beginner level, some of the opponents play like high level players. This means its a really poor experience for beginner players who are looking to learn while playing. there needs to be fairer opponents. Only recommended to intermediate and above players! Can't recommend the game as it stands. Not sure if there are any updates that might fix some issues and add things.
Impressed so far. You can tell the developers have a love for chess! Gonna keep my eye on this one...
Doesn't really teach anything other than basic rules. Even if you only play the recommended moves in the training game format vs the lowest level AI, you lose. Probably fine if you already know what you're doing, but this is not beginner friendly at all.
Ein wunderbares Spiel, schöne 3D-Bretter, viele Modelle und Arenen zur Auswahl, Turniere gegen den Computer, und Bots, die eine gewisse Persönlichkeit haben (Spieler seufzen, jubeln leise, kitzeln Notationen, haben ein paar gesprochene Sätze zu den Spielsituationen drauf, Konkurrenten sagen in Textfenstern nach dem Spiel kurz Hallo oder gratulieren), wunderbare Musik (die manche Spieler auch mal an bestimmten Stellen mitsummen, großartiges kleines Detail :D ), und zu den "normalen" Bots gibt es noch in einem Extra-Modus ein Dutzend Klassik-Weltmeister zur Auswahl, zum Beispiel, wenn man nach einem gewonnen Anfänger-Turnier mal so richtig im Ansturm Tals untergehen möchte. Ansonsten fallen vor allem die vielen unterschiedlichen Umgebungen, Bretter etc auf, es gibt einen Analysemodus, PGN-Export, Schachtraining (mit Eröffnungstraining), etc pp. Das Spiel ist so ein richtiges Komplettpaket, um in schöner 3D-Umgebung gegen simulierte menschliche Gegner langsam besser zu werden.
Игра безусловно, с огромным потенциалом, авторы серьезно подошли к созданию 3D окружения и звуковой атмосферы. В перспективе данная игра могла бы стать одной из немногих, наряду с серией Chessmaster, где можно нормально играть турниры с компьютерными персонажами (для тех кому неинтересны онлайн шахматы). Видно что авторы стараются улучшить взаимодействие с ИИ с каждым обновлением. И это очень хорошо. Однако хотелось бы, чтобы геймплейная часть не отставала от визуальной и ИИ частей, в том плане, чтобы были турниры с разными контролями времени (блиц, рапид, классика, включая Фишеровское добавление и добавление времени по Бронштейну), формулами проведения круговой, швейцарской, олимпийской, матчевой, в том числе с возможностью создания своего турнира с включением игроков на свой выбор, рейтингами для трех видов контроля. Чтобы время партии не настраивалось просто в меню настроек профиля, а выбиралось для каждого турнира или партии. А в целом хотелось бы пожелать разработчикам успехов и поблагодарить за создание игры.
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