Conquer your city

Take the monument.

Walk to a real bridge, windmill or statue. Win one short chess challenge. It turns your colour on every player's map, until someone comes and takes it back.

Free on iPhone. Android soon.

Free to play
Never pay-to-win
Location only while the app is open

How it works

Three steps to your first monument

1
Find one
Your map shows every monument around you in the colour of whoever holds it. Grey means nobody has captured it yet.
2
Win the challenge
Stand at it and play: thirty to ninety seconds of chess at your own level. A fork, a mate in three, an endgame against Stockfish.
3
Hold it
Win, and it turns your colour for everyone and you pocket a pawn. Then somebody from another faction walks up.

Factions

Pick a side

Three factions, one map. Whichever you join, the other two want your street.

Rooks

Straight at it. No detours.

Knights

Always coming round the corner.

Bishops

Halfway across the board already.

Up to four players of one faction hold a monument together. When another faction wins there, all four are out.

The map

10,000+ monuments, and almost all of them are still grey

15kinds of monument
3factions
40 mhow close you stand

Bridges, windmills, church towers, statues, parks, artworks, pumping stations, viewpoints and public chess boards, from Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Every one of them can be yours by tonight.

Bridge
Memorial
Statue
Church tower
Place of worship
Pumping station
Windmill
Artwork
Viewpoint
Trail marker
Park
Fountain
Landmark
Chess club
Chess board

See the live map

Map of the Netherlands with every monument marked as a dot, most grey, some in the three faction colours. — Uncaptured
Rooks
Knights
Bishops
An illustration of the map, three factions holding their corners. The live one is in the app.

The challenge

One challenge. Thirty to ninety seconds.

Opening test

Play the first moves of a named line, as deep as your rating takes you.

Tactic

Fork, skewer, pin. Find it.

Mating pattern

Mate in two, three or four.

Endgame puzzle

One move decides it.

Endgame vs Stockfish

Lucena, Philidor. Convert it, or hold the draw.

Difficulty follows your own rating, so a beginner and a club player both sweat a little. Openings, tactics, mates and endgames are rated separately, because being sharp in the endgame says nothing about your Sicilian.

Free to play

Free, and never pay-to-win

Pawns buy impatience, never strength

Every win earns one pawn, and that is the only way to get one. Saving a challenge to play later from the couch is free. A pawn buys an extra slot, or skips the hour a monument rests after you play it. Nothing you buy wins you a monument.

The saved-for-later panel: four slots for challenges saved at a monument, playable from anywhere.

Free at every monument

Challenging is free, as often as you like. A player on zero pawns is one win away from a full wallet.

Hints cost the win

Take one for free. Solve it with the hint and you keep the answer, not the monument.

Your location stays yours

Read only while the app is open, never in the background. Other players see the monument, never you.

Your map too

Put your club or chess board on the map

Clubs, outdoor boards, and anything the map missed

Does your club play at a fixed venue? Is there a chess table in your park that the map does not know about? Send it in. A person checks it, and it becomes a monument every player in town can walk to. Free, and never worth more in the game than the bridge down the road.

Add a monument

Before you install

What to know before you go

LocationRead while the app is open, so it can tell you are standing at a monument. Never in the background, and other players never see where you are.
PriceFree. Everything you have in the game, you won.
Pay-to-winDoes not exist. Money never buys playing strength or a rating.
AccountE-mail and password. No advertising in the app.
AgeThirteen and up. Between 13 and 15 a parent or guardian agrees first, which Dutch privacy law requires.
WhereTwenty countries: the Netherlands and fifteen more across Europe, plus the United States, Canada, India and Indonesia. Elsewhere the map has no monuments on it yet.

Keep your head up out there

This game sends you into the real world. Look around you rather than at your screen, play the challenge standing still, and do not go anywhere you are not supposed to be.

Your town is still grey.

Be the first colour on it.