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Chess, explained like a friend would.

For kids and complete beginners. Thirteen lessons that start at “this is a rook”, 2,997 puzzles that adapt as you improve, and an opponent you can actually beat.

Ng5 — Blunder

The knight moved to g5, but the queen attacked it. The pawn could move to a3 to stay safe instead.

Every other chess app stops at the first word.

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A lesson introducing the rook The app explaining a blunder on the board A tactics puzzle with a rating and a streak
13lessons
2,997puzzles
17openings
20engine levels

Watch it catch a blunder

Four moves into a real game, at engine level 6. The knight goes to g5, the engine takes its turn, and the app says what went wrong — not a score, not a label, a sentence about this position.

Recorded from the app. Nothing here is a mock-up.

A game in progress: the knight moves to g5, the engine replies, and the app explains that the queen attacked it.
The rook lesson: the sentence changes above the board and arrows show how the rook moves.

It starts at “this is a rook.”

Thirteen lessons across four chapters: how each piece moves, how to capture, check and checkmate, and the three special moves that surprise every beginner. Each one ends with a position your child plays, not a page they read.

“This is a rook. It looks like a castle tower.”

A puzzle being hinted: first the idea, then the piece, then the square it should go to.

2,997 puzzles, every answer proved

Every puzzle is rated, and so is your child. Solve a hard one and the next gets harder; miss a few and it eases off. Practise one idea at a time — forks, pins, skewers, loose pieces, mates.

None of them were copied from anywhere. The app’s own engine generated and checked each one, so every puzzle has exactly one answer and the app can show its working.

The Italian Game walked through a move at a time, with the idea explained above the board.

Seventeen openings, named as you play

The Italian, the Sicilian, the London and fourteen more, each explained in a sentence, each with a walkthrough and a memory drill. The app tells you which opening you are in while you are in it, so the names attach to something you recognise instead of a list you memorise.

It collects nothing.

Not a reduced amount. Nothing. The app makes no network connection of its own, so there is no server to trust and nothing to leak.

Everything it remembers stays on the device, and Settings has one button that erases all of it. The whole app is a two-megabyte download, because all of it is already in your pocket.

Two boards, one tap apart

Modern and Classic change the whole app — colour, type, corner radius, motion and the piece artwork — not just the squares. Children pick one and stay with it.

Switching the board style from Modern to Classic: the whole app turns from green to wood, and back again.

Questions parents ask

What age is it for?

It starts at “this is a rook”, so a child who can read short sentences can start — around five or six with an adult nearby, and on their own from about seven. There is nothing to age out of: the engine’s top level will beat most adults.

Is it really free?

Yes. No advertising, no in-app purchases, no subscription and no trial. There is nothing to buy and nothing to cancel.

Can anyone contact my child through it?

No. There is no chat, no multiplayer, no profile and no account. The app has no way to send or receive a message, because it has no way to reach the network at all.

Does it work without the internet?

Entirely. The lessons, the puzzles, the engine and the coach are built into the app, which is why it is a two-megabyte download and why it teaches the same on a plane as at home.

How is it different from the other chess apps for kids?

Most of them label a mistake. This one explains it, in a sentence about the position your child is actually looking at — without an account, without advertising, and without sending anything anywhere.

Teach a child chess this week.

Get it onGoogle Play Coming soon tothe App Store