Indiac. 600 CE
Chess
Where kings fall, queens rise.
Bagh Chal
Nepal · c. 1500 CE
The greatest games ever played, on the phone already in your pocket. Free at the table you are sitting at.
The catalog
Every game in Board & Pieces was carried across centuries by the people who played it — empires, traders, families, monks, mothers. We bring them all into one board, with the cultural stories that made them.
Where kings fall, queens rise.
Two stones. Infinite universes.
Two generals. One river between.
Five thousand years of luck.
Plant. Harvest. Repeat.
Sometimes the goats win.
The king must run.
Three in a row. Three thousand years.
Four stones. Eight points. Endless thought.
The game the empire forbade.
Every wall is a decision.
Where kings fall, queens rise.
Two stones. Infinite universes.
Two generals. One river between.
Five thousand years of luck.
Plant. Harvest. Repeat.
Sometimes the goats win.
The king must run.
Three in a row. Three thousand years.
Four stones. Eight points. Endless thought.
The game the empire forbade.
Every wall is a decision.
Wherever your people are
What it needs is a reason to sit at it.
At home
One family group, one shared balance, and a leaderboard that makes the Sunday rematch mean something.
With your circle
The group chat already exists. Keep your own standings between the six of you and pick the rematch up wherever the next coffee is.
At your café
Sponsor a venue and every game played there is free for whoever is in the room. Walk in, open the app, find an opponent at the next table.
At work
Co-working spaces and small teams put their name on a board, and the games are on the house.
And everywhere else
Chess clubs, classrooms, libraries, the regulars at your local. If your circle has a name, it can have a board.
Civilization arises and unfoldsin and as play.
Johan Huizinga
Homo Ludens, 1938
Free to install. Free to play at any sponsored table.