TrickMate

TrickMate

A card-powered twist on chess

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TrickMate is real chess with one addition: a deck of 50 Tricks that bend the rules. Swap two of your own pieces. Move a pawn twice. Bring a captured piece back from the graveyard. Your opponent can see it coming - and if they are holding a Cancel, they can stop it dead. Nearly every Trick is restricted, so the deck rarely lands the finishing blow on its own. It buys you a tempo, an escape, a second chance. The chess still has to be good. - Real chess underneath, fully validated on the server - 50 Tricks across 15 types, drawn as you play them - Play several games at once, a move a day or all in one sitting - Get told when it is your move, even with the app closed - Sign in with a phone number to keep your games on every device - Ratings, rankings, and your record against every opponent - Nudge an opponent who is holding things up, or concede gracefully - Free, no ads Signing in is optional. Your phone number is stored as a one-way hash and is used only to recognise you across your own devices.
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What's New in TrickMate

1.0.4

October 5, 2026

Take a Trick back. A Trick you've played but not yet used can now be handed straight back to your hand — on your phone and on your Apple Watch, which until now had no way out of one. Your Watch also tells you which Trick is in force and what it can't do. Also fixed: - Playing against the computer: it could cancel its own Trick before you got the chance to answer it. Your Cancel now always gets its turn. - Checkmate, stalemate and draws now take account of the Tricks you're holding and the Trick in force, so games no longer end while you still have a move. - A card can no longer promote a pawn — it promotes by reaching the last rank under its own power. - Challenge anyone straight from the Rankings table. - Fewer taps to play a Trick.

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