{"id":3882,"date":"2017-10-30T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/chess_ultra_arrives_on_the_switch_eshop_with_cross-platform_play_this_week"},"modified":"2017-10-30T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:00:00","slug":"chess-ultra-arrives-on-the-switch-eshop-with-cross-platform-play-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/30\/chess-ultra-arrives-on-the-switch-eshop-with-cross-platform-play-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess Ultra Arrives on the Switch eShop, With Cross-Platform Play, This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some may recall when Ripstone published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu-eshop\/pure_chess\"><strong>Pure Chess<\/strong><\/a> on Wii U and 3DS, a game developed by VooFoo Studios. It was an impressive title (despite some nagging flaws) that offered cross-platform play and attractive visuals. A little while ago Ripstone confirmed that its own internal team was bringing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/chess_ultra\"><strong>Chess Ultra<\/strong><\/a> to the Switch, which should be rather enticing for those that enjoyed Pure Chess back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s confirmed for this week, arriving on 2nd November with a price tag of \u00a39.99 \/ $12.49USD \/ \u20ac12.49 depending on your region.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A particularly pleasing feature will be cross-platform online play with Xbox One and PC, so it shouldn&#8217;t be too hard to find matches. A feature-set is below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stunning environments and beautiful chess sets, including a \u2018Fire and Brimstone\u2019 chess set that literally burns<\/li>\n<li>10 Grandmaster approved AI levels<\/li>\n<li>Comprehensive time controls, including Classical, Blitz and Marathon, all available online<\/li>\n<li>Intuitive local and online multiplayer with ELO ranking system<\/li>\n<li>Cross-platform online play against Xbox One and PC players<\/li>\n<li>Spectate and compete in Official Ripstone tournaments<\/li>\n<li>Numerous playing options including full touch screen and cross-table playing modes<\/li>\n<li>Over 80 chess puzzles<\/li>\n<li>Re-write the past by winning the biggest historic matches<\/li>\n<li>In-depth tutorials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unique to the Switch will be &#8216;cross-table&#8217; chess, in which you can lay the Switch down flat when undocked.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/chess_ultra_arrives_on_the_switch_eshop_with_cross-platform_play_this_week\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/chess_ultra_arrives_on_the_switch_eshop_with_cross-platform_play_this_week\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Ultra Switch.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Will you be making a move for Chess Ultra on Switch?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some may recall when Ripstone published Pure Chess on Wii U and 3DS, a game developed by VooFoo Studios. It was an impressive title (despite some nagging flaws) that offered cross-platform play and attractive visuals. A little while ago Ripstone confirmed that its own internal team was bringing Chess Ultra to the Switch, which should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}