Chess & Variants
Experience one of the top-rated Free games on the App Store, Chess & Variants! Developed by the innovative team at ACLAP, this Board game provides a unique gaming experience like no other. With a content rating of 4+, it’s perfect for a wide range of players. Since its initial release on 1st May 2012, the game has seen numerous updates, with the latest version launched on 2nd February 2015.
Are you a fan of Board, Strategy, games? Then Chess & Variants is right up your alley! You won’t be able to resist its appeal.
User Ratings of Chess & Variants
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How Much Does Chess & Variants Cost?
Good news! You can download Chess & Variants on your iOS device absolutely free!
Chess & Variants Release Date
Eager to know when Chess & Variants first graced the App Store? It was launched on 1st May 2012.
When Was Chess & Variants Last Updated?
The latest version of Chess & Variants was updated on 2nd February 2015, ensuring a more enjoyable gaming experience for all players.
Where Can I Download Chess & Variants?
To get started with Chess & Variants, head over to the official Apple App Store.
A Glimpse into Chess & Variants
- 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 (10×10 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
What’s New in the Latest Update?
Find out what’s new in the latest version of Chess & Variants updated on 2nd February 2015:
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.
User Reviews on Chess & Variants
Looking for more information? Read a comprehensive review of Chess & Variants below:
Many chess variants are here, including some we have never seen. We have only played against the computer so far. No problems at all.
Plays great, super fun game with tons of interesting variants, including Shatranj!!!!!!! Anyway, we 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.
Pretty good app for Jockly. We are using an iPhone 6 but we have a difficult time getting to our tables. It comes up quickly and crashes. We can follow an email link for our 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 8×8 chess board always has a black square to the players lower left but this is not the case in a 5×6 variant. It would be nice if this could be fixed.
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.
While this Chess app offers a quite a few Chess variations, and it really is alone in the App Store in that respect, there are two pretty serious issues when it on our iPhone. 1. There is no screen zoom, and for many of these Varients, the boards and pieces are so small that you really need one. Being able to select pieces for some of the games are almost impossible on an iPhone sized screen. Then theres 2. The lag. We dont mean lag when the computer opponent is thinking. Theres a lot of lag when its waiting for a move to be entered by the player. Id be poking at a piece on our screen over and over again before the poke would register. We thought that there was an issue with our screen, but no. Its the app. Everything, including trying to click the X to close out of a game just doesnt register without poking the screen over and over again. Also, Id like to beg for the inclusion of Millenium Chess, and Omega Chess. Those are our two favorite Chess varients. This app has a lot of potential, but it needs that zoom ability and something done about the lag. edit we also just discovered that on our iPhone, when we pull up the game rules, the lag increases a thousand fold. It scrolls really choppy, and it takes multiple finger slides to make it scroll just once. The scrolling and lag induced make it impossible to read the rules at all.
Since we’re the 1st person who has written a review for this app so far, we’re sure that you’re actually going to take the time to read what we have to say, unlike all the reviews we’ve written for other apps (which were popular enough to be getting reviews written every other second) which we’re sure were probably just ignored. But we digress. We 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…