UNCOMMON
CHESS
Chess where the pieces fight for the square. Every capture is a hand-animated duel between two original characters — the Bone Court against the Iron Court.
WHAT IT IS
35 battles
Every attacker and defender pairing is choreographed by hand. A pawn taking a rook does not look like a queen taking a pawn.
Learn to play
A screen for somebody who has never played: how each piece moves, shown on a board, plus the rules that look like exceptions.
Atlas
Every battle, frame by frame, at any speed. Scrub it, slow it, watch the one you like again.
The Matrix
A real study of 162,000 games, and a plain-language explanation of what its numbers mean and what they cannot tell you.
Your own view
Turn the board, tilt it, zoom in. Watch the fight from wherever you like.
Online, by Game Center
1v1 and 2v2, turn by turn. Your turn waits for you, so a game can take an evening or a week. No account of ours, and nothing to sign up for.
Play anywhere
Against the computer at four strengths, or pass the phone to somebody sitting opposite you. No account, no internet needed.
Fun modes
Optional novelty rules — a champion that survives one attack, a berserker that strikes twice. Strict chess is free, default, and always there.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
FOR PARENTS
Uncommon Chess teaches chess from the beginning, and it teaches a little statistics as well — a child can read how a 162,000-game experiment works, what a margin of error means, and why more data helps only slowly.
The one exception is worth stating plainly: there are optional rewarded video adverts, from Google AdMob, and only if you choose to watch one. They buy tokens for novelty game modes. Nothing behind them affects normal chess, and you never have to see one. The privacy policy explains exactly what that involves.
GET IT
Coming to iPhone and iPad. Free — no subscription, nothing to buy.
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