Flamingo Chess

Flamingo Chess is plain chess for you and your friends: in Messages, live in the app, or across the table on one phone.

No login, no tracking, no engine. Just a game of chess between people.

PLAY IN MESSAGES
Start a game right in a conversation and take turns whenever it suits you. Your opponent's move plays out on the board when you open it. Games in Messages are serverless: your moves travel in the conversation between your iPhones and are never stored on our servers.

PLAY LIVE IN THE APP
Pick a color, start a game, and share its five-letter invite code. Your friend types in the code and takes the other seat. Moves appear the moment they are made, and every game you play in the app waits in your games list, titled with both players' names, like "blueberry764 vs orange489."

PLAY HOT SEAT
Two people, one phone. The board turns to face whoever moves next, you can take moves back, and the game stays on your phone until you come back to it.

SHARE YOUR GAMES
Share any online or hot seat game as a scoresheet: plain text laid out like the paper sheet at a tournament, with the date, both players, the result, and every move in numbered rows. Send it to your opponent or keep it in your notes.

KEEP YOUR GAMES
Finished games go to the archive, where you can replay them move by move.

AND ALSO
• Offer a draw or resign, just like over the board
• Speak your move: hold the Speech button and say "Move pawn to D3"
• Playable with VoiceOver: every square announces its name and its piece, and legal moves are called out
• Two board themes, Neon and Standard
• Choose your own display name in Settings

Have fun everyone!