Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition
Skip · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $6.39.
- Length
- 2h 11h to 100%
- Value
- $3.20/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 280 positive
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What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Chess! One of the world’s most popular games, has just got even better! Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition is a stunning celebration of the greatest strategy game of all time.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT or AMD Radeon HD 3830, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
May 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $6.39. Across all 23 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 47 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Chess Ultra ($3.89, scores 37) beats it on value, while it beats Business Tour - Board Game with Online Multiplayer(大富翁) (free, scores 5).
More about Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition
Finishing takes 2 hours; clearing it takes 11, which is 5.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
68% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 14:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
While playing against the computer, it played an illegal move that stevie wonder would have seen!!!. what a rip off ... dont buy this game its rigged.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/300630/pure-chess-grandmaster-editionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 15. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.