Odin's

Chess

In the style of the Lewis chessmen

No ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking and no account.

Coming soon to the App Store

iPhone · iPad · Apple TV · Mac

Odin's Chess is chess played with standing figures in the style of the Lewis chessmen — the twelfth-century Norse set of seated kings, thoughtful queens and warders with sword and shield — on an oak board. Pick up a piece, see every square it can reach, and set it down. Play Classic chess or seven more boards, against the computer, on one screen, with someone in the same room, or online.

Choose the Lewis set or flat sigils, and an oak, iron-bound, engraved cherry or green leather board.

One purchase, every screen

Buy it once and play it on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac. On the Apple TV the board stands at an angle, made to be read from across the room, and the Siri Remote moves a piece in two clicks. On the Mac it is a native app with menus and the keyboard. On iPhone and iPad you tap or drag, and in Pass & Play the board can turn to face whoever is to move.

Made for the Apple TV

Odin's Chess is built for the television, not stretched onto it. The board stands at an angle, so the pieces read from across the room, and the Siri Remote moves a piece in two clicks: one to pick it up, one to set it down. Prefer it flat? One switch in Settings. The same purchase plays on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

A real Mac app

Odin's Chess is a native Mac app, with menus, the keyboard and a window you size yourself: click a piece and its square, or move with the arrow keys and Return. The same purchase plays on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, where the board stands at an angle for the room.

Play people, not a server

Pass & Play

Two players, one screen.

Nearby

Connect device to device over the room's network and play without any account.

Online, live or turn-based, through Game Center

Your matches wait in one place, with your move on top.

No sign-up, no company server and no subscription. Everything but the online games works on a plane.

One price, nothing else

No ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking and no account. Nothing to unlock and nothing to buy: every board, every set and every rule is in the game you bought. A child can play it unattended, and the only other games it ever mentions are our own.

iOS · iPadOS · tvOS · macOS

Learn in words

The Coach marks a good move and says what it does: a check, a capture, the winning move. When a position comes round for the third time, or fifty moves pass without a capture or a pawn move, the game tells you that you may claim a draw. Every board has its How to Play, and the Video Instructions teach on the real board, chapter by chapter — how to use the app, the pieces in brief, check and checkmate, castling, en passant, promotion and the draws — captioned, offline, in 50 languages. Play against four computer strengths, from Easy to Expert, with undo in your own games.

Eight boards, five house rules, every way to play

Classic

8×8

Chess as the world plays it.

Chess960

8×8

The back rank shuffled into one of 960 starts — no opening book.

Quick

6×6

A six-by-six board for a short game.

Shatranj

8×8

The medieval game the Lewis carvers knew, with counsellors and elephants.

Horde

8×8

Thirty-six pawns against a whole army.

Racing Kings

8×8

The first king to the far rank wins.

Antichess

8×8

Give every piece away to win.

Atomic

8×8

Every capture explodes.

House Rules change any board that allows them:

The High Seat

A king on the centre wins

Three Blows

The third check wins

The Jarl's Gift

One side starts without a piece, so a parent and a child can play the same game

Open Hall

No castling

No Quarter

Stalemate loses

Every board and every rule plays against the computer, on one screen, nearby and online — the Jarl's Gift online only with someone you invite.

A place in the family

The same menu, controls and ranks as Odin's Checkers. Earn XP and climb from Wanderer to Grand King, chase 30 achievements and 14 Game Center leaderboards, including a leaderboard for each board, and pick up your game on any of your devices through iCloud.

iPhone & iPad

A Home Screen widget shows when you have moves waiting, and Siri can continue your game.

In 50 languages, with VoiceOver and Dynamic Type.

Apple TV

In 50 languages, with VoiceOver.

Mac