BoardWay: Board Games

BoardWay teaches four classic board games in one calm app: Xiangqi (Chinese chess), Chess, Go and Gomoku. Start from the board and the pieces, practise every idea right away, then test yourself against a bot that plays at your level.

LEARN BY MOVING THE PIECES
• 30 short lessons, from setting up the board to the first real tactics
• Every lesson asks you to play the key moves yourself, with feedback on each one
• Five practice puzzles after each lesson use exactly what you just learned

PUZZLES FOR EVERY GAME
• 110 puzzles: checkmates, captures, tactics, ladders, ko, endgames and double threats
• Step-by-step solutions that explain why each move works
• A daily puzzle, a streak to keep and badges for your milestones

PLAY A BOT THAT FITS YOU
• Strong open-source engines (Pikafish, Stockfish, KataGo, Rapfi) tuned to four levels, from Easy to Master
• Clocks, hints, undo and handicaps; Go komi; Gomoku with freestyle, blocked-ends or Renju rules
• Perpetual check, repetition, ko and Go scoring handled by the real rules

LEARN FROM EVERY GAME
• Review shows your accuracy, the key moments and the move you missed
• Replay any game move by move, or save a position to play again
• An Elo rating for Xiangqi, Chess and Gomoku, kyu/dan for Go, that grows with you

MADE FOR LEARNERS
• Works offline, no account needed
• 7 languages: English, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish and German
• Light and dark themes
• Bot data downloads over Wi-Fi in the background

BoardWay is free with ads. An optional one-time purchase removes all ads.