Defend your castle wall and bring down stone after stone on a chessboard battlefield. Enjoy a stylish blend of brick-breaking action and the elegant world of chess, told like a classic magazine column.
♟️ Every move matters
• Smart play: drag anywhere to slide your battlement and release to put the ball in play. Bring down every stone to complete an opening.
• Tricky defenses: black rook towers never fall, so plan each angle with care.
• Chess power-ups: red caskets release a piece. Pawns split the ball in three, the rook widens your wall and the crown slows the game.
👑 Claim your crowns
• Campaign: 20 famous chess openings, each with its own castle wall to break.
• Fewer moves, more crowns: clear a board with as few touches as possible to claim up to three crowns.
• Endgame: endless waves that grow faster, three lives and a scoresheet of your last 20 games.
📖 Study the game
• Chronicle: 23 stories about chess and board games from around the world, in four chapters.
• Odd One Out: spot the item that does not belong, with a short explanation after each answer.
• Collection: carve 12 chess pieces as your crown total grows.
🎨 A page-turning design
• Editorial look with serif headlines, roman numerals and page-turn transitions.
• Plays in portrait and landscape, on phones and tablets.
• Haptic feedback and background motion can be switched off in the settings.
The game plays fully offline, needs no account and has no adverts or in-app purchases.
Claim every crown on the chessboard