Chess Ultimate news & patch notes

Puzzles are here! A new puzzle mode has been added to the game. More details to come as the feature evolves.

Balance Changes

• Ghost — When a non-attacking move enters a Ghost's square, both pieces are now knocked out instead of just the moving piece

• Fisherman — Can now move like a Queen and pull diagonally

• Bomb — Diagonal movement range reduced by 1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue selecting alternative Captain Bear skins

• Fixed Rook displaying a King skin

• Fixed time not expiring in local and bot games

• Fixed 50-move rule not resetting on certain knockouts

• Fixed issue with multiple Angels in local games

• Fixed a bug where playing against a Devil would complete the knockout quest in a single game

• Fixed a bug where a Pawn could still upgrade after capturing a Bomb

• Fixed a bug involving Giant, Bomb, and Angel interactions

• Various menu fixes

• Team Builder now correctly restores your selected tiles and environment when navigating to it

Chess Ultimate 5.6 Update

Major highlights

• 2 new characters added the first new characters since launch
• Major checker rework balance changes and new behavior

New characters

Dragon (16 points)

• moves like a bishop + knight
• alternate colors added
• new skin dragon knight
• added dragon icon

Fisherman (8 points)

• can pull enemy characters toward it
• new skin pooh bear

Checker changes

• checker point cost 1 to 2
• forced attack now only triggers after an initial knock out that turn by the checker
• checker king movement increased from 1 to 8

Shop and cosmetics

• alternate skins moved to the bottom of the shop menu
• fixed issues not being able to set skins
• copy cat now shows other copy cats movement as well

Gameplay and bug fixes

• fixed issues with ghost
• fixed battle pass 100 gems animation
• fixed local team banner not closing
• fixed take back in local games
• fixed a bug where bomb would explode on game initialisation causing you to not see the true board state
• fixed bomb + angel + mage + giant interaction
• fixed issue where character swapping team with parasite while frozen removed the ice material
• fixed issue where a ghost with an angel attached kept revealing itself
• rewrote a bunch of angel code to fix multiple issues
• changed colors a bit when zoomed to game board
• changed square hover highlight color
• fixed bug where if bomb attacks a parasite the square the parasite was on didnt get cleared and would float around on the client
• fixed glass tiles shader
• after taking back or resyncing frozen pieces were not being unfrozen properly
• fixed issue where local time wasnt being reset properly
• dragging a character onto enemy squares during draft pick will now remove your character from the board
• fixed sometimes marking dots as danger moves when they werent

System changes

• improved translations
• updated new user tutorials
• all character key costs are now 1
• keys earned from winning a match made game 2 to 1
• added a new player queue
• fixed a bug where it would display blocked users to the blocked person and allowed them to essentially unblock themselves
• fixed tournament push notifications not working on android and firing at the wrong time on ios