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Play 3D chess offline, vs AI or friends. Capture a piece, throw it back.
Chessplosion is a 3D chess game with a second mode you will not find anywhere else: capture a piece and you get to throw it back onto the board. Play chess offline against the built-in AI, two players on one device, or a friend move by move. No account needed for the chess itself. WHOEVER CAPTURES GETS TO THROW The captured piece becomes the projectile, in the same turn or never. There is no ammo store: skip the throw and you lose the right to it. Otherwise whoever is ahead would hoard projectiles and the game would tip for good. You throw from well behind your own back rank, not from the edge of the board. That is exactly where the difficulty comes from — the same small angular error grows across the distance into a wide miss. Drag to set direction and power, release to throw. Reaching all the way across the board is a gamble, not target practice. NO FRIENDLY-FIRE PROTECTION Your own pieces topple just as easily. Whoever leads gets more ammunition but risks their own position with every throw. Toppled means captured: tilted more than 45 degrees, or knocked off the board. Everything else slides back onto its square. A toppled king ends the game. THREE DIFFICULTY LEVELS THAT CHANGE SOMETHING The difference is not a number, it is how much you get to see. • Easy: the full arc, and you pick the power freely. • Normal: half the arc, and the power swings, so you have to release at the right moment. • Hard: only the launch direction, a faster swing, plus crosswind you have to account for before you let go. OR JUST CHESS The throwing mode is a switch, not an obligation. Leave it off and you get complete chess: castling, en passant, promotion, every draw rule. With a main menu, pause, saved games, replays and settings. AN OPPONENT THAT CAN THROW, TOO Play two players on one device, or against the built-in chess AI in three strengths. It is a hand-written alpha-beta search with piece-square tables. It picks between several throwing targets rather than aiming at the king every single time, and it accounts for its own inaccuracy: a valuable target at the far edge gets left alone when the throw is too risky. It throws with the same ballistics you do — no engine privileges. TWO PLAYERS, ONE DEVICE The board turns to whoever is to move. Switch it off under Settings if you would rather it stayed put. PLAY A FRIEND, MOVE BY MOVE Correspondence games: challenge someone from your friends list, or send an invitation link — it works for a player who does not have the app yet. Turn by turn, not in real time, so nobody has to be online at the same time. Open a game and it goes straight to your opponent's throw instead of replaying thirty moves you already know. A correspondence game needs an identity so the other side knows who they are playing; one tap is enough, no email address needed. BALANE PLAY, IF YOU WANT IT A leaderboard that counts the opponent pieces you have toppled: worldwide or friends only, for today, this week, this month or all time. Add friends by friend code or by name, report or block a player right where the name appears, delete the account again in two taps. One account across every Balane game. It is optional in the real sense — leave it alone and the game is complete without it. THE GAME STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE No ads, no tracking, no analytics. Saved games and replays never leave the device, the chess AI thinks locally, and the whole game works offline on a plane. Balane Play and correspondence games are the parts that talk to a server, and only once you sign in: a name and a score for the leaderboard, the moves of a running game, an email address so you can get back in. DETAILS • Figurine notation by default because it is language-neutral; letter notation is one switch away. • The sound is synthesised from the actual physics impact, so a hard hit sounds like one. • The app interface is available in English and German. Free. No ads, no in-app purchases.