Chess
Understand what your move changes.
Play calm local games or face the computer on iPhone and iPad. With standard chess rules, clear move feedback and a board designed to keep every position readable.
Move by move
A classic board without an engine room around it.
Schaken handles legal moves, check, mate, stalemate, castling, en passant, promotion and applicable draws. The rules stay beneath the board so attention remains on the position.
Ways to play
Play, learn and review.
Local two-player
Share one iPhone or iPad and play without an account or internet connection.
Against the computer
The reproducible computer opponent makes the same position verifiable again.
Save and replay
Matches can be saved locally, resumed and replayed deterministically.
Learning
The position stays more important than the interface.
Save a match locally and replay its moves in the same order. A position stays reviewable without a busy analysis dashboard around the board.
- 01Castling, en passant and promotion
- 02Check, mate, stalemate and applicable draws
- 03Reliable saves with version and integrity checks
Play now
Mankala is available
Play Asseler Studio’s calm, tactile board game now on iPhone.
Quietly private
Your match is not a profile.
Chess has no ads, Asseler tracking, subscription or game coins. Local matches need no Asseler account. If an upgrade is offered through Apple later, Apple processes that purchase under its own terms.
VoiceOver labels, larger text, reduced motion and differentiation beyond colour belong to the interface. This support remains part of our checks on iPhone and iPad.
Made for focus, not distraction.
No ads. No tracking. No subscription. No game coins.