Sounds dumb, but my favorite phone game is checkers on flyordie.com which has 100s of players at any given time. Its a quick and fun competitive game that involves IQ that I constantly get beat at, which keeps it interesting. Not at all easy like I thoughts. Chess is too long to play and requires too much for, and most phone games aren't that great imo. Source: about 1 year ago

Flyordie.com is my playground of choice. Source: about 1 year ago

3) Chess.com is not really "official" chess, just the largest online platform with the obvious domain. "Official" would porbably mean FIDE, USCF, or another national organization for OTB play. In that respect there is the American Checkers Federation (ACF) and other national organizations, but they are much less well established than FIDE or USCF. Online play happens on sites like playok.com, flyordie.com,... Source: about 1 year ago

I fell for this when I was a kid on Byond. The idea guy thought he was J. R. R. Tolkien. My sprite artist friend joined me. He was vague about what he wanted and even though we had been making everything he asked of us he brought another coder in, a couple years younger than me, I was a teen and he was 13. When he was given my code he called me boring and started throwing together some stuff. He ended up writing... Source: about 3 years ago