Joe Stump, the former lead architect at Digg, recently left to create a new iPhone development company called Blunder Move. The company is planning on specializing in board games for the iPhone, and what better game to start with than one that has remained unchanged for hundreds of years: chess. Chess Wars is the first title from the company, and it integrates social features through Facebook Connect.

The Facebook Connect integration allows players to play asynchronously with anyone that is either on Facebook or the iPhone, but there isn’t too much more beyond chat and notifications. After all, it’s chess. The game does have some features that highlights potential moves, and it can keep track of multiple games based on whose turn it is.

Stump has said that new features are slated in new versions of Chess Wars, but hasn’t announced a time frame. Some concepts the company is looking to add include Push Notification, both Twitter and TwitPic integration, and even greater use of Facebook Connect.

However, there seems to be some other issues that Blunder Move will have to work out first. Chess is chess – to that end, there isn’t much to be done about game play. That much is understandable, but there seems to be a lot of user complaints regarding server reliability. Whether or not this is a problem on the game or user end is irrelevant; it needs to be fixed.

Assuming the game works, this is a pretty clean and fun game for those that enjoy chess. At the moment, it is only $0.99 in the App Store, so it is hardly expensive. We look forward to seeing what comes next from Stump and his team.