More room to play, more little moments together. • A bigger chessboard without coordinate labels. • Visual hints highlight up to four pieces to explore. Four moves by either player refill the hint. • Gentle, playful game sounds with a parent option to turn them off. • Clear swipe cues for the parent controls. • An extra Kid Power level for an even bigger head start. • A new Nordic Sage app icon and refreshed App Store screenshots.

Clearer feedback for young chess players: • Learn why a king cannot move to a square and why a position is checkmate. • See the whole board when a game ends. • Use Undo and Replay from the kid’s side, with a clearer replay animation. • Select only the current player’s pieces. • Follow clearer, rounded knight paths in Show My Moves. • Enjoy a steadier board between turns and controls positioned farther from the top of the screen.

SWAP SIDES, NOTHING ELSE. Swap Sides now turns the board with a smooth animation and keeps the current position, turn, and move history exactly where they are. YOUR GAME COMES BACK. An in-progress game now survives closing the app, restarting the device, or temporarily losing membership access. Promotion, hints, take-backs, Kid Power, and whose turn it is all come back too. KID POWER STAYS HONEST. During an unfinished game, a safe dial change updates every surviving power piece together right away. Captured pieces stay captured. Unsafe changes are refused inline and never queued for a later move. Once the game is over, its board stays fixed and the selected level applies to the next game. SMALL THINGS NOW DO WHAT THEY SAY. Picking the already-active player or Table Game keeps playing instead of restarting. Favourite moves are truly saved in the Growth Journal. “Watch the last three moves” now plays all three in order, with the arrow pointing at the move being shown. We also tightened crash recovery around finished games, promotions, player changes, and Growth Journal saves.

This one is big. The version you have predates the whole relaunch, so here is everything that changed. ONE SIMPLE MEMBERSHIP. One membership now unlocks everything, for up to 6 people through Family Sharing. No locked features, no second thing to buy, nothing held back for a higher tier. TABLE GAMES. Pawn Race, First Catch, King of the Hill, and Three Checks — short games played with real chess rules, for the nights nobody has forty minutes. GROWTH JOURNAL. Every finished game is written down: who played, what Kid Power was set to, whether hints were used, how it ended. It tells the story parents actually care about — the handicap coming down over time — and marks the date of the first checkmate won with no hints and no take-backs. One tap makes a milestone card worth keeping. KID POWER IS FIVE TAPS. The balance dial became five named levels — Even match, Little help, Head start, Big boost, Superhero boost — that you can change mid-game without a fight with the toolbar. It can now hand the advantage to either side, so two kids can play a fair game, and after three clean wins it quietly suggests stepping down a level. TAP ANY PIECE. Tapping a piece shows where it could go even when it is not that player's turn, so nobody gets a dead tap while the grown-up is thinking. SHOW MY MOVES. A button on their side of the table draws every move they can make right now, in a slow five-second wave that is calm enough to read. PARENT TIPS AND WEEKLY CHALLENGES. A short, practical card for the grown-up at the start of a game, and a new family challenge to try each week. 11 PIECE STYLES AND SAVED PLAYERS. All eleven sets are included, and each saved player keeps their own name, color, and Kid Power level. FIRST TIME? START HERE. A few skippable screens for grown-ups who do not play chess. You really do not need to know the rules. FIXES FROM OUR OWN KITCHEN TABLE. The kid's pieces now face the kid. Move lines paint under the pieces like chalk on a real board. The end of a game is a two-sided card both players can read instead of an alert facing one of them. The membership screen uses the whole sheet on every size. And a full audit of the chess rules themselves fixed en passant, castling, promotion, stalemate, and draw detection.