Boardlore: World Chess & Go

About Boardlore: World Chess & Go

Every great board-game tradition of the world, in one beautiful app.

Boardlore brings together twenty of the world's chess and board-game traditions under one elegant design — from Western chess to Shogi, Xiangqi, Go, and the historic games that shaped them all. Learn a new tradition, master an old favorite, and play a strong AI opponent anywhere, even offline.

WORLDS OF STRATEGY, ONE APP
- Western chess, plus rule-variants: Chess960, Crazyhouse, Antichess, Horde, Atomic, Racing Kings, Three-check, and King of the Hill
- Shogi and Minishogi (Japanese chess)
- Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
- Go, Atari-Go, and multiple board sizes
- Janggi (Korean chess), Makruk (Thai chess), Sittuyin (Burmese chess), Shatranj (the medieval Arabic root of chess), and Dobutsu (animal shogi)

Twenty playable variants across five living traditions and their historic roots.

PLAY ANYWHERE, EVEN OFFLINE
An on-device AI opponent with multiple strength levels plays fully offline — on a plane, on the train, or anywhere without a signal.

LEARN THE RULES
Never played Shogi or Go? A built-in "learn the rules" onboarding teaches every unfamiliar variant, step by step, so nothing is ever off-limits.

HERITAGE REPLAY
Explore a curated corpus of historic games across traditions, and see how the masters played.

TRAIN
Sharpen your game with puzzle practice tailored to each tradition.

BEAUTIFUL REGIONAL ART
Each tradition is rendered in its own visual heritage — a beautifully bound anthology of the world's strategy games, not a generic chess board.

Available on phones and tablets.

HONEST AND PLAYER-FIRST
The core game is free to play. Optional rewarded ads unlock hints and undo, cosmetic in-app purchases add regional art sets, and an optional premium unlock is available. No pay-to-win. No forced mid-game interstitials.

Boardlore — the world's board-game traditions, beautifully together.