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Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 1:00pm
Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 1:00pm
Chess with Friends: an iPhone multi-player game
That seems to be the line of thinking from Newtoy, Inc. a new studio formed by two brothers who quit their jobs at Microsoft to work on the iPhone, a platform which they believe is going places. They've worked on games like Age of Empires, and more recently, Halo Wars - until they quit the job to start Newtoy.
Chess for Friends allows you to play chess with friends or random opponents using an asynchronous server - meaning that you don't have to stay online for the game to keep going, allowing you to make a move against your opponent whenever it suits you. Other Chess games require you to sit out chess games in one big go, so Chess with Friends has got a lot going for it.
It supports multiple games (otherwise it would be titled "Chess with Friend") and a "Pass and Play" mode to challenge a friend who is with you in person. If you have no friends, the app can also find you a random opponent.
Newtoy promises in-game chat and virtual grandmasters for 1.1, and asks that interested onlookers keep an eye out for future games on the "Games with Friends" network.
