
BChess
Chess with its own engine
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About
BChess is a free, open-source chess app for iPhone, iPad and Mac with its own chess engine. It plays entirely offline and collects no data.
PLAY
- All the rules of chess, including castling, en passant and promotion. Checkmate, stalemate, the fifty-move rule and threefold repetition end the game.
- Play against the computer or a friend, or watch the computer play itself.
- Five computer strengths, from Beginner to Maximum. Below Maximum the computer takes a moment before it replies, like a human player.
- Promote a pawn by picking the piece over the board.
UNDERSTAND
- The Engine button shows who stands better, the evaluation and the best line, including on your own turn.
- The full move list in standard notation: one tap away on iPhone, beside the board on iPad in landscape and on the Mac.
- Step back and forward through the game.
Open source: the full source code is on GitHub at https://github.com/jean-bovet/BChess
Credits: chess pieces by Colin M.L. Burnett (Wikimedia Commons), BSD license. Move generation uses magicmoves by Pradyumna Kannan. The full notices are in the app, under About BChess.
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What's New in BChess
1.0
November 6, 2026



