Chess & Variants
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Free | ACLAP | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
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
Reviews
Very nice app
Dr. Zachary Smith
Many chess variants are here, including some I have never seen. I have only played against the computer so far. No problems at all.
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Stefenismyname
Since I'm the 1st person who has written a review for this app so far, I'm sure that you're actually going to take the time to read what I have to say, unlike all the reviews I've written for other apps (which were popular enough to be getting reviews written every other second) which I'm sure were probably just ignored. But I digress. I have a (sort-of Captain Obvious) suggestion of something you could do to help improve your app. You could search Wikipedia (more thoroughly than you already have) and Google (for websites other than Wikipedia) to find even more versions/variations/styles of chess such as Shogi, Endgame Chess, Parallel Worlds Chess, Suicide Chess, Einstein Chess, Extinction Chess, Gryphon Chess, Mock Chess, Rejection Chess, Take-All, 3-Check Chess, Unirexal Chess, Progressive Chess, Double Chess, Four-way Chess, 'Maharajah and the Sepoys', Pole Chess, and even Chessers... Just a thought...
At last - quality chess variants
Jonny0007
This app also has the best mini/speed chess games programmed into it, at the App Store. The paid version, which I own, offers 16 intelligent variants and is well worth the price of admission. The other reviewer, Stefan, gives this *free* app 1-Star because it "only" offers 8 quality programmed chess variants? What is that all about?? He then proceeds to paste a "suggestion/request list" of almost 20 variants from the internet. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, Stefan. Please revise your review upward, to be fair to the developer. This app (and its upgraded version) contains the most powerful chess variant engine at the App Store. And 8 to 16 variants in one chess app is nothing to stick your nose up at.
A couple bugs...
Masterhearts
Great game for playing lots of variants, but a lot of the games' rules won't scroll on the iPhone, so you can't see them, which is obviously a problem.
Awesome
Bomber337
Plays great, super fun game with tons of interesting variants, including Shatranj!!!!!!! Anyway, I would give it 5 stars, but the reading the descriptions and rules is a little buggy as you can't scroll down sometimes, and also the fact that they somehow forgot to put Tamerlane Chess in there. But hey, it's an awesome app, more than worth the nothing that you pay for it (which is also pretty awesome), and everyone should get it. But seriously guys, put Tamerlane Chess in the next update and you get 5 stars.
Little Buggy
dogofdogness
Pretty good app for Jockly. I am using an iPhone 6 but I have a difficult time getting to my tables. It comes up quickly and crashes. I can follow an email link for my turn to a game without a problem. Wish this bug would be fixed. Also when playing mini chess variants like "chess attack" the square colors do not change when you invert the view (say you are playing the black piece s). This is because a standard 8x8 chess board always has a black square to the players lower left but this is not the case in a 5x6 variant. It would be nice if this could be fixed.
