Square Off Chess Set - an Electronic Chessboard, which Moves The Opponent's Wooden Chess Pieces on its Own. Kids or Adults can Play Against The AI or Any Online Chess Player Across The Globe.

My son came home from a friend's house raving about this magic chess board.When we set ours up the first time, I wasn't sure what to expect. Wow! I surprised how cool it is to see the pieces glide automagically across the board. There must be a magnet or something inside each piece, but they feel just like normal chess pieces when you pick them up. The board is really quiet when it's moving the pieces around, which makes the magic all the more magical.When playing against the computer, you can gradually increase the difficulty setting from really easy to genius, which keeps the game fun for players of all experience levels. We're still on level 4 of 20, so there's little chance we'll get bored of it any time soon. Confession: we often end up with two or three people working together to try beating the computer at higher levels.We used to play chess maybe a couple times per year but now we're playing a couple games a week, about half of the time against each other instead of the computer. But we still use the "Kingdon Set" because it's so much nicer than the old cardboard set with plastic pieces we used before.Sometimes it gets confused when we switch between connecting it to my phone vs. my wife's but it always figures it out within a couple minutes.We haven't tried playing with remote friends & family yet, but we've tried having one player on the board and another on a phone at home and it works great. I'm going on a trip soon and looking forward to continuing our evening chess matches at a distance.

Was super excited about this product. It worked great for 9 Months and then showed erratic movements some of the time. i replaced the charger, updated the firmware and finally contacted customer service 3 months out of warranty (1 year). At this point, it wasUnplayable.. got sent on fools errand, sent videos,Reset, raindance .. finally said it needs a new motherboard and its out of warranty's so wanted to charge $150 + shipping to me to fix myself if they sent motherboard. Expensive white elephant at this point.Bad quality product and bad customer service.

The box came in a nice sleek box, very similar to Apple's packaging, most of set up was fine, except that it skipped over the fact that you need to set up the board before starting a game if you want to play against the computer. Once I had all of the pieces on the board, than the rest of the setup was very smooth.I liked using the app on my phone to select the level and see where the moves were happening. Also being able to continue to play on the physical board while out of my house by using the app was really cool, BUT make sure you put the board somewhere that dogs (and probably cats) can't get to it, as my 6 month old puppy grabbed one of the pieces while I was playing remotely which was an issue.I hadn't seen the latest commercial, before I started playing, but the idea that you can play a game from long distance, is REALLY cool, and I'm going to try that next time I play.My lone complaint after playing a couple of times, is when I had to put it away to make room on the table, storing the game pieces in the bland box they came in could be improved, just to make the piece holder with a bit more personality.The overall quality of the board, pieces and presentation is high end, and you feel like you have a very high quality product.

The packing is quite well but the holders for the chess set are cheap plastic I doubt they will last long. The chess board itself is well made with only small flaw on one corner and is acceptable. However the chess sets itself are cheap. It has no weight and the quality is equal if not better than the Walmart standard. And one of the white bishops is cracked, that means it has poor quality control. The AI moves are clumsy, sometimes knock off anything in its way. The innovation and intuition wise is top note. Bottom line it is a good AI chess game set but it doesn't worth for what it charges though. If it improves the quality control, yes 300 no problem. But as now the max I will go is 200. And probably it will be returned in this week.