Hamle vs Xiangqi Study

Hamle brings 15 timeless strategy board games together in one beautifully crafted app. Play offline with a friend, challenge the built-in computer or compete online in real time. ◆ 15 CLASSIC STRATEGY GAMES MILL GAMES • Nine Men's Morris — align and capture pieces in this ancient mill game, with flying enabled at three pieces. • Three Men's Morris — quick tactical duels on a 3x3 board. DRAUGHTS & CAPTURE GAMES • Draughts (Checkers) — play Turkish Draughts (Dama), featuring orthogonal movement and flying kings, or International Draughts, with diagonal movement and forced capture chains. • Alquerque — the medieval ancestor of checkers. • Fanorona — Madagascar's classic game of capture by approach and withdrawal. • Lau Kata Kati — a traditional Indian strategy game full of tactical captures. THE CHESS FAMILY • Chess — complete rules including castling, en passant, promotion and draw detection. • Xiangqi — Chinese chess with its river, palace and cannons. Choose symbols, Chinese script or letters. • Shogi — Japanese chess where captured pieces return as your own. Choose symbol, kanji or letter notation. TERRITORY • Go (Baduk, Weiqi) — play on a 19x19 board with Chinese or Japanese scoring, komi and dead-stone marking. HUNT GAMES • Hnefatafl — Viking chess in which one side defends the king while the other hunts him. Includes an optional 3D board. • Bagh-Chal — Nepal's tigers-and-goats duel, with warnings when a tiger can pounce. SOWING • Mangala — Turkish mancala using official TMOF tournament rules: 12 pits and 48 stones. BOARD CONTROL • Disc Flip — flip opposing discs and fight to control the corners. • Surakarta — the Indonesian classic where captures travel around looping corner arcs. ◆ PLAY YOUR WAY • LOCAL 2-PLAYER — pass and play on one device with no internet required. Ideal for family game nights, travel and classrooms. • VS COMPUTER — choose Easy, Medium or Hard difficulty and tap Hint when you need help. • ONLINE MULTIPLAYER — invite a friend to a private room with a short code or use random matchmaking to meet players worldwide. ◆ SMOOTH ONLINE PLAY • Instant room codes for quick invitations • Reliable reconnection after connection drops • One-tap rematches with automatic side swapping • Quick-message chat with a safety filter ◆ DESIGNED FOR STRATEGY LOVERS • Selectable board themes for each game • Distraction-free fullscreen mode • Profiles, custom avatars and match statistics • 102 interface languages with full right-to-left support for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu • Faithful rules covering forced captures, mill detection, threefold repetition, superko and more • Clean, fast and lightweight, with no paywalls, energy systems or waiting timers ◆ WHY HAMLE? Every game includes a built-in rulebook explaining setup, movement, captures, winning conditions and history. Learn the rules, practise against the computer and then take your skills online. Instead of offering just one game, Hamle provides a curated library with consistent design and accurate rules. These classics have crossed cultures and centuries; now the whole collection fits in your pocket. Hamle is completely free. Every game and every online or offline mode is available without subscriptions, locked content or hidden fees.

Chinese chess to play and to get better at, in one app with no ads, no account, and everything playable offline. PLAY THE ENGINE Nine levels, from first-timer to Chess Sage. The easy levels slip up like real people, so beginners get their wins too; the top levels never think longer than 3 seconds a move. An opening book built from real games keeps every game different. Ask for a hint, take a move back, play with a clock, play coached games that warn you before a blunder, and climb a ladder of nine masters. LEARN FROM YOUR OWN GAMES After each game the app reviews it for you: pieces given away, missed mates, tactics you did not see. The position before each mistake becomes a drill so you can find the right move yourself. Winning positions you failed to convert are kept for practice too. KNOW WHAT TO PRACTISE TODAY The Today card suggests a few minutes a day: positions due for review, your weakest skill, an endgame or opening, and a game at the right level. A placement test lets experienced players skip the basics. The Progress screen shows your tactics rating, win rate by level, and how your big mistakes per game come down. SKILL TRAINING 708 positions across 16 skills: loose pieces, forks, discovered checks, Cannon tactics, pins and blocks, exchanges, escaping check without loss, mate in one, two and three, 20 named mating patterns, finding the best move. Tactics come from real games, mating-pattern drills are composed like those in classic mate books; all graded by the engine, ordered from easy to hard. Get a move wrong and the app explains why in that very position and shows the reply. Mastery means solving it alone twice, on two different days. ENDGAMES, WINNING POSITIONS, OPENINGS 13 basic endgames played out against the engine, from a lone Chariot to Horse and Cannon holding a draw against a Chariot. 30 winning positions to practise converting. Opening training in 10 systems: step off the line and the app tells you whether your move loses something or is still playable, and every book move comes with a “why” line. LEARN — 492 LESSONS Sixteen sets: first steps, opening principles, middlegame, endgame, ten opening systems, the classical manuals, and international competition rules. Every endgame verdict was checked against the app's own engine. 39 interactive exercises, 45 practice positions, 15 puzzles. HANDBOOK Look up 105 terms, 20 named mating patterns with drills, an endgame table of wins and draws, an opening tree with 119 lines, rules and notation. All searchable; terms in lessons open with a tap. OVER-THE-BOARD GAMES Record a game played on a real board, or import one in Vietnamese notation, WXF or DhtmlXQ, and have it analysed like your own games. An analysis board to try moves and see the engine's assessment. Share games and position images. PLAY SOMEONE NEARBY Sitting next to a friend? Open Play Nearby on both phones on the same Wi-Fi, see each other in seconds and send an invite: pick your colour and a clock. Others nearby can watch live. Every game is saved to your history and can be analysed like games against the engine. Set your name and picture under Settings → Profile. INTERNATIONAL RULES World Xiangqi Federation rules (WXF 2018): no perpetual check or chase, a draw after 50 moves without a capture. The game warns you before you break a rule. Offer a draw or resign from within the game. FIFTEEN LANGUAGES English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Nederlands, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Tiếng Việt, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Русский, 日本語, ไทย, 한국어. PRIVACY No data collected, no ads, no sign-in. Your progress and games stay on your device, move to a new phone with iCloud Backup, or can be exported to a single file. The app goes to the internet in exactly one place: asking the App Store whether a newer version exists, at most once a day, sending nothing about you. Play Nearby uses only your local Wi-Fi network, never the internet, and only while you have it open. iPhone and iPad, light and dark mode.