Sometimes it’s the simple things that make you smile. As much of a product of the digital gaming age as I am, I still love a good game of chess.

Yes, Windows has a built-in 3D chess game, but I’ll admit – I never passed much beyond the beginner aspects of the age-old strategy game so the Windows version is a bit advanced for me. When browsing the Chrome Web Store, looking for some nice extensions to try and review for all of you, I stumbled upon SparkChess, which boasts a full 3D, HD chess game right in your browser. Well, of course I installed it. The game lets you choose from 3 potential AI opponents, as well as having the multiplayer capacity to search for others real people using the extension and pit you against them.

I chose Cody, the AI with the lowest difficulty. Still, it took me the better part of 20 minutes to force him into a stalemate. The app boasts that all single player games are saved after every move – even if your browser closes or restarts, you won’t lose your game. In addition, there is a package version available for download that will even allow offline play. Now, my computer is almost never offline, but when it is, I wouldn’t mind having this to play around with.

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In their own words, here are the differences between the free browser extension version, and the paid for advanced version: An advanced version is also available for Chrome as a packaged app (so it works offline) and also for Windows, Mac OS X, iPad, Android tablets and Blackberry Playbook. Some highlights: – works offline – replay mode – PGN import/export – board editor with FEN import/export – hints – move suggestions – diagram mode – multiplayer chat – priority access to multiplayer – no ads. My initial complaint about the app is that it doesn’t give you a button to start it and doesn’t seem to show up in my installed extensions list. The only way I was able to launch it was to go to the Web Store, find it’s page, open the details, and click “Launch App”. It then opened a new tab and told me a bit about my opponents. If there is a button to launch SparkChess, it clearly isn’t obvious. All in all, SparkChess seems worth it for the free version.

I may consider upgrading to the paid version in the future, but for right now I think I’m going to see if I can actually win a game. Price: Free (Advanced version is $7.95 from the developer’s site) Version reviewed: 5.2.0.1 Requires: Chrome.

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