Fidchell is a board app developed by Philippe Schober.
How many times has Fidchell been downloaded?
Fidchell has been downloaded 34 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 36 times.
What is the rating of Fidchell?
Fidchell is rated 3.79 out of 5 stars, based on 210 ratings.
Is Fidchell free?
Fidchell is free to download. The APK download size is 74.88 MB. The latest version available is 2.27. The last update was on November 1, 2025.
What are the requirements for Fidchell?
Fidchell requires Android 4.4+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play April 2016.
Description
Fidchell, which is also called Faery Chess or Celtic Chess, is an ancient celtic game which was mentioned in multiple Irish epics and chronicles. Under the name of Gwyddbwyll it also appears in the Welsh Mabinogion and seems to have been held in peculiar reverence throughout the British Isles. Faery Chess is what emerged from Nigel Suckling's investigations and speculations about the lost game.
The game is played an a board consisting of circles and lines on which the game pieces are placed and can move along. Similar to games like the ancient abstract board game Nine Men's Morris the pieces are first placed onto the board in turn and moved afterwards once all of them have been placed. The capturing of pieces works differently though and is alike to Tafl games: a piece gets captured if a player traps it between two of his own pieces. This even grants him another move with which he may trap another one and so on.
The app features two variants of the game: the basic edition which is easier to understand and where both players are treated equally and the advanced version which has different goals for both players. The general goal is to connect the central Naval stone with the border of the board by forming a connected line of stones.
This app features both game modes for offline play against a human or the computer/AI and asynchronous online play against humans.
The app is ad supported. These ads can be permanently deactivated through an one-time In App Purchase (IAP).
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Calling this game Mitchell is a little far-fetched, given that the game play is more akin to Nine Man Morris than Tafl and given that there is a Mitchell Tafl variant already. This is Nigel Sucklings invention based on the interpretation of historical texts descriptions only. That being said, the game is fun. It is more akin to Nine Man Morris in game play, but rewarding all the same (Recommended). It would be great if it were possible to turn off the extra turn for capturing rule. This creates unbalanced game play. It would also be good if it had multiple AI levels like in the version of Tafl (Which is the best to date I've played (**Highly Recommended**)
★★★★☆Cory Matheson· May 17, 2023
Great and fluid app design. Only major criticism is the oddly Norse themed elements that seem out of place for an ancient Celtic game that existed long before the Vikings ever raided Celtic shores. AI should have names that are authentic to the Celtic peoples rather than Norse names, and the art on the board should be Insular Celtic notwork rather than Scandinavian art. Again, it's a game that was played by Gaels and Britons (probably Gauls too), not the Norse.
★★☆☆☆Anthony Biggar· Oct 22, 2021
Game tends to freeze causing some unwanted and concerning issues on my device such as screen going black for a while and rendering the phone unresponsive. The game's responses to my moves are also slow and takes a while to register that I've made a move. Also, as Mitchell is a Celtic I find it odd that the AI has Anglo-Saxon names rather than Gaelic or Welsh. Due to the issues experienced, I give this only 2 stars.
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