Fantastic Chess

Chess, exactly as you know it — until your opponent's queen turns into a dragon.

Fantastic Chess is real chess with a twist: before every match you pick three magic cards. Freeze a piece for two turns. Teleport a knight across the board. Bury a hidden bomb. Take a free extra turn. Every rule of chess still applies. You just have three ways to break someone's plan.

WIN WITH CHESS. WIN WITH MAGIC.
Cards don't replace the chess — they raise the stakes on it. A card spent badly costs you tempo you'll never get back. A card held one move too long is a card you never played. Knowing when is the whole game.

19 SPELLS. 39 CARDS.
Dragon burns a path across the ranks. Ice freezes a piece where it stands. Warp teleports. Bulwark drops an immovable stone. Phoenix brings a fallen piece back. Bomb, Curse, Shield, Swap, Summon, Bayonet, Rewind, Royal Pardon and more — many in three escalating tiers. Earn packs by playing; there's no wall between you and a full collection.

PLAY REAL PEOPLE
Quick match pairs you with someone at your rating in seconds. Play a friend with a room code. Climb four independent ranked ladders — Rapid, Bullet, Chess 960 and Variants — because they're four different games. Rematch instantly with colours swapped, and see your head-to-head record against anyone you've faced before.

SIX BOARDS, ONE GAME
Standard 8x8. Chess 960 with its 960 starting positions. And four compact variants — 5x5 Gardner, 6x6 Los Alamos, 7x7, and a layered 10x10 where pawns open up to three squares and en passant applies to every square they skip. Same cards. Completely different geometry.

A CAMPAIGN WORTH FINISHING
Six named opponents, each with a signature card and a deck built around it. Sir Gareth turtles behind Bulwark. Mira freezes you out. Erebus opens with Dragon III. Beat one and you keep their signature card. A new Boss arrives every week with a global leaderboard.

GET BETTER, NOT JUST LUCKIER
Every finished game is analysed move by move — accuracy score, blunders, brilliant moves, and an estimated rating for how you actually played. Scrub back through any position mid-match. Replay any archived game. Puzzle Rush trains the tactics; the review screen tells you what to fix.

PLAY YOUR WAY
Portrait, one-handed, on any phone. Bots from complete beginner to roughly 2000 Elo. Clocks from 1+1 bullet to 10-minute rapid. No ads, ever. Full offline play against bots. English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Nederlands and Italiano.

Free to play. Free to finish. Card packs and gems are optional.

Chess has been the same game for 500 years. This is what happens when you give both players a spellbook.