ChessCraft

Frame of Mind

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About this game

Never play the same game of chess again! ChessCraft is a chess sandbox with an AI computer opponent. Customize chess boards, rules, and pieces. Share your creations online. Play your friends online, or play the computer, or choose from one of 75 built-in chess boards in adventure mode. ChessCraft is also the world's largest chess variant database.

https://www.chesscraft.ca

Many chess AI mobile games already exist, but only ChessCraft allows the player to create such wacky boards and pieces and immediately play a decent computer opponent.

Create new pieces with any combination of the 8 bishop or rook slides, plus a 7x7 grid of knight-like hops. Pieces can also enhance or restrict nearby pieces. Create new boards with any enabled or disabled tile up to 16x16. Place promotion rules for any piece, anywhere. Place tile rules like witch windows (teleporters), sanctuaries, and more. The computer AI opponent then uses concepts from computer science and graph theory to understand your creations and play against you.

When you share a board, your friends can play the AI too. Sharing creates a new web page just for you, like this:

https://www.chesscraft.ca/design?id=shape-variant1

ChessCraft is full and free with no ads, except for the occasional popup which asks you to buy ChessCraft Patron. If you become a patron, you won't see those interruptions anymore. If you're a teacher, student, or you cannot afford ChessCraft Patron, send me an email and I'll send you a special code.

Visit the website and send me an email if you have any feedback or questions. If you like the game, please rate it!

Ratings and reviews

Amazing game, I've played the adventure mode for a while, and it's amazing. The piece creation? Amazing. The board creation? Say it with me, amazing. there are only 2 small problems I have. 1st, I wish you could make the customer knight hops go a bit further, and 2nd, I wish you could move multiple things at once to a folder. Other than that, game is perfect.

Truly an amazing expansion to the game of Chess! I had been looking for a game that gave a true way to create whatever pieces and boards I wanted. I tried downloading the large, flashy games, but none of them stuck or were engaging. But this app has all that AND the ability to play against a bot who understands all the rules instantly AND a story mode that lets you unlock boards, pieces, and backgrounds. And the best part... it's all free...WITH NO ADS. Amazing game with an amazing team too

Edit: I also found a glitch (I guess) that was balanced and must not be removed from the game, it basically spawned a bunch of relics on the grid for a 100ms (I guess) and I also think this is rare (it happened on April 8 2026), when I was playing Wasaya, Edit: I will call the glitch a "casino", also add a leaf piece rule that makes the piece that has it be able to be captured by it's own pieces by their normal capture/passive move/archer capture

What’s new

Required security update for Google.