Chess & Variants

Name: Chess & Variants
Rating: 4.1 (14 reviews)
Author: ACLAP

By: ACLAP App

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Overview

Version:

3.4.4

Last updated: 2015-02-02

Ranking

#353,101 ▼ 10,637

Overall

Features & Capabilities

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 (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

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

ACLAP

Rating:

4.10

(14)

Version:

3.4.4 Last updated: 2015-02-02

Version code:

837133004

Creation date:

2012-05-01

Compatible devices:

Size:

52.04MB

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-19

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Ranking

# 353,101 ▼ 10,637

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Developed by:

ACLAP

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chess-variants/id522062562

User Reviews

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by Bl*****, 2026-05-31

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 my 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 there’s 2. The lag. I don’t mean lag when the computer opponent is thinking. There’s a lot of lag when it’s waiting for a move to be entered by the player. I’d be poking at a piece on my screen over and over again before the poke would register. I thought that there was an issue with my screen, but no. It’s the app. Everything, including trying to click the X to close out of a game just doesn’t register without poking the screen over and over again. Also, I’d like to beg for the inclusion of Millenium Chess, and Omega Chess. Those are my two favorite Chess varients. This app has a lot of potential, but it needs that zoom ability and something done about the lag. *edit* I also just discovered that on my iPhone, when I 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.