Chaturanga
Ancient Indian chess, reborn in glowing real-time 3D — meet the carved heroes of four worlds, then command them.
Real-3D · works offline · no sign-in · a teaching AI that explains every move.
Every warrior, forged in light
A brand-new rendering pipeline gives the carved pieces real bloom glow and a fresnel edge-light — the same glow you see rotating above — so each army reads as a sculpted, radiant figure, never a flat tint.
Pick from eleven Warrior Styles — Divine Radiance, Blood & Iron, Jade Warrior, Celestial Azure and more — each recolouring both armies in vivid, distinct hues.
Choose your colours
Warrior Styles
Tap 🎨 in-game to recolour both armies. Glowing styles bloom with light; metal and stone finishes gleam with real reflections.
Not just a board — a teacher
What it is
Authentic identities, modern moves
Raja, Mantri, Ratha, Gaja, Ashva and Padati — the four-army host — move exactly like modern chess. Every piece carries a moral teaching.
A teaching AI, 5 levels
Play the Guru from Padati to Mantri. An alpha-beta engine hints the best move and reviews your blunders — beatable at first, masterful at the top.
Openings trainer
Walk six classic openings move-by-move — Italian, Ruy López, Sicilian, French, Queen's Gambit, King's Indian — each narrated as a lesson in strategy.
Piece inspector
Tap a piece to see a rotating 3D render of it and a diagram of exactly how it moves and captures.
Warrior's Eye
Drop the camera to a piece's eye level and look across the battlefield from its very perspective.
Sound & voice
An Indian-classical soundscape — a tanpura drone and raga melody with crafted move/capture/check sounds — and every teaching read aloud in an expressive Indian-English DragonHD voice.
Four battles across the ages
Four worlds, eight armies
Each world pits two factually distinct armies against each other — their own names, teachings, carved pieces and cinematic intro.
Two ways to play
3D grandeur, or a clean 2D board
Step onto the field of dharma
No sign-in. No download required to play. Just open and learn.