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kaakwha

Is there a beginners level chess app that allows visual chat... is there such a thing?

I am a probably beginner level chess player. maybe a high level beginner, but anyway, I am teaching the game to my grandson via phones.  He holds his phone to show me the chess board and I coach him, telling him where to move my pieces as we play.  Is there an app which would make such a way of playing easier to facilitate?  TIA

WSama

So you and your grandson are playing a game of chess online. He's viewing it through his phone, and you're viewing it through your own. 

In order to coach him, he shows you his phone and you point out the move to play.

I don't know about visual chats, but there is a way to use one phone as a board for the both of you to play on, just as if it were a real board. I think this would suit your needs, unless you mean you two are skyping from separate locations and are showing each other your phones over the video call.

WSama

So if you're coaching your grandson over a video call, the easiest solution is to open the chess game on the same device you're skyping with, say your laptop, and then display what's on your screen (the board) on the video call. That'll mean both you and your grandson are looking at the same board while video calling.

WSama

https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA34895/how-do-i-share-my-screen-in-skype

MarkGrubb

I was going to suggest the same. Try a screen share. Microsoft Teams supports it and presumerably many other conferencing apps will such as skype and zoom. The video feed will become a small window in one corner.

AtaChess68

I don’t have experience with shared screen in Skype but I do use it in Zoom to teach or learn chess. That works fine.

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