How It Works
Three steps to elemental chess mastery
Pick Your Elements
Before each game, assign elements from your collection to your chess pieces. Fire, Water, Plant, Air, and over 100 discovered elements are available. Your element loadout is part of your strategy — different elements produce different reactions when they clash on the board.
Capture and React
When you capture a piece, the two elements combine — just like crafting. Fire plus Water makes Steam. Lightning plus Metal makes Electromagnet. An AI determines who had the semantic advantage and generates a unique board reaction: damage, shields, poison, transformation, and more.
Win the Trade
If your element beats theirs, the reaction hits your opponent's pieces. If it doesn't, it hits yours. Every capture becomes a tactical decision: is the chess position worth a bad elemental trade? Sometimes sacrificing a piece wins the board through a powerful reaction.
Discover Elements
An ever-growing tree of elements built by the community
Start with four, discover hundreds
Every player begins with the four base elements: Fire, Water, Plant, and Air. Each capture creates a new element from the two that clashed. Fire plus Water makes Steam. Stone plus Fire makes Magma. Lightning plus Water makes Storm. The combinations follow intuitive real-world logic.
Discoveries are permanent and shared across all players. When you find a new combination, your name is recorded as the discoverer for everyone to see. The element tree grows as the community experiments with new matchups.
Before each game, open the board configuration screen to assign your discovered elements to your chess pieces. Build a loadout that matches your playstyle — aggressive fire-based elements, defensive shields, or tricky status effects.
Game Modes
Play your way
Local
Two players on one device. Share a screen and settle who has the better elemental loadout. Perfect for playing with a friend sitting next to you.
vs AI
Play against a computer opponent with three difficulty levels. The AI plays standard chess while you experiment with element strategies and discover new combinations.
Online
Create a room and get a 4-character code. Share it with a friend to start playing together. Full reconnection support — if someone disconnects, they can rejoin within 5 minutes.
Board Effects
Every reaction reshapes the board in a different way
Push
Shoves pieces outward from the capture point. Pushed pieces can collide with the board edge or block other pieces.
Stun
Freezes a piece in place for several turns. Stunned pieces cannot move or capture until the effect wears off.
Poison
A ticking countdown appears on the piece. When it hits zero, the piece is destroyed. Race to cleanse it or sacrifice it strategically.
Transform
Temporarily changes a piece into a different type. A pawn might become a queen — or your queen might become a pawn.
Invulnerable
Protected pieces cannot take damage or be affected by negative effects. A powerful but temporary defense.
Convert
Turns an enemy piece to fight for your side. One of the most powerful effects — but kings can never be converted.
Ice Tiles
Pieces that step onto frozen tiles slide across instead of stopping. Plan your movement carefully around icy terrain.
Burning Tiles
Tiles that damage any piece standing on them each turn. Control the board by creating dangerous zones your opponent must avoid.
Void
Dark tiles that pull neighboring pieces inward each turn. A gravitational hazard that disrupts formations and forces repositioning.
Haven
Safe zones that protect any piece standing on them from debuffs. Strategic positioning on haven tiles can turn the tide of a game.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know