
Chess & Variants
Board
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad
* Open up your Chess horizon *
Jocly's Chess Variants is by far the most complete mobile application for playing Chess variations.
In addition to regular Chess, it offers 45 variants, all of them featuring:
- artificial intelligence to play alone / offline
- server connectivity to play real people, create or join tables, invite friends
- full rules description
- live games are saved and can be replayed
- ELO based leaderboard
- and many more ...
Supported variants:
- Classic Chess
- XiangQi (Chinese Chess)
- Gardner Chess
- MiniChess4x4
- MiniChess4x5
- MicroChess
- Baby Chess
- Malett Chess
- Los Alamos
- Chess Attack
- Courier (Middle-Age Chess)
- Makruk (Thai Chess)
- Shako (10x10 board with elephants and cannons)
- Shatranj
- Raumschach (5x5x5)
- Glinski Chess (hexagonal)
- Brusky Chess (hexagonal)
- DeVasa Chess (hexagonal)
- McCooey Chess (hexagonal)
- Shafran (hexagonal)
- Modern circular Chess (on a round board)
- Byzantine Chess (on a round board, as played in the Xth century)
- 3D Chess (6x8x3)
- Cylinder Chess
- RollerBall (Chess on an unusual board)
- Chess960 (randomized start position)
- Metamachy (big board)
- Capablanca Chess
- Carrera Chess
- Gothic Chess
- Janus Chess
- Grand Chess
- Modern Chess
- Chancellor Chess
- Wildebeest Chess
- Smess (give it a try)
- Demi Chess (half a regular board)
- Romanchenko Chess
- Amazon Chess
- Duke of Rutland Chess
- Gustav III Chess
- Hyderabad Chess
- Kaiser Chess
- SultanGame Chess
- Reformed Courier Chess
- Tutti-Frutti Chess
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
39 Chess variants have been added.
It is now possible to play against remote opponents, whether you are connected at the same time or not.
Full access to played games archives for analyze.
The developer, ACLAP, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Information
- Seller
- ACLAP
- Size
- 54.6 MB
- Category
- Board
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 6.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 6.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 6.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2014 Jocly