Chess your child can learn before reading.
Every lesson is read aloud, so a pre-reader never has to look at a word. Your child taps a piece and hears its name, then meets the six characters who live on the board. It works from about two years old, well before school.
Free to start · €12.99 once to open the stories · no subscription · Family Sharing on.
Six characters who live on a board, and a voice that explains them.
Your child meets the pieces the way a picture book introduces its cast: one at a time, by name and by sound. The six are ours, drawn for this app.
Meet the pieces
Tap a piece to hear its name and its sound. Sort the set by colour or by shape, take turns on a free board, and put every piece home by its picture. This first stage is free, and it is complete: nothing in it is a sample of something else.
Common questions →A story for every piece
The unlock opens one story per piece, explaining why it moves the way it does, with a small game after each. It also opens the real-board coach, which reads the lesson aloud while your child plays on a wooden board instead of a screen.
Common questions →Alive, in colour
Every piece breathes, blinks and looks at your child. Touch one and it answers the instant the finger lands; while its line is spoken, its mouth moves. If your child pauses, one piece glows and a little hand shows where to tap. It all switches off with Reduce Motion.
Each character stands on its own bright colour and the background stays calm, so the colour goes to the things to touch and never to the wallpaper. The studies behind those choices are listed inside the app, in plain language.
Common questions →Name it, hear why, then play it on wood.
The first stage is free and complete. Pay once to open a story for every piece, a game after each, and the real-board coach.
- The first stage, free
- Family Sharing
- Yours to keep, no subscription
Questions
Does my child need to read?
No, and that is the whole point. Every lesson is spoken, and each piece is shown as a picture, so a two-year-old who cannot read a single word still gets through the free stage from start to finish. There is nothing on screen that has to be read to you.
Who is doing the reading?
You choose: papa, mama, or both together. With both, papa tells the story and mama speaks as the pieces, the way reading aloud sounds at home. The voices are generated on our own hardware from a written description, so no real person is being imitated.
What does paying once open up?
One story per piece explaining why it moves the way it does, a small game after each, and the real-board coach that reads the lesson aloud while your child plays on a wooden board. It is one payment, and Family Sharing covers the rest of the household.