ChessCraft

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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

This takes chess and the strategy involved to a whole new level!!! Adventure mode is a fun and refreshing twist on a classic game. To those wondering; you can play classic chess, but the adventure mode introduces a ton of new pieces, movements, challenges, board sizes, and unique spaces. My ONLY 2 issues are; 1. Lack of info on new pieces, movements, attacks, and symbols. 2. The "Create" section needs a tutorial (or something) to explain all the capabilities, #1 info, or ideas for use.

Very fun, but I keep ending up in "draws" that stop me from progressing, whenever I checkmate the other king, there's like a 50% chance for it to just make me lose, and it seems to happen more on smaller boards. i understand this is a rule in chess but it makes the game frustrating considering I've already won at that point, so it's a kick in the nads just to be force failed. Maybe make it an option to disable?

I love this game! The adventure mode and peice creation is so unique. However, the garb creation section seems to be broken and when I play a custom board online with friends, the whole board and all the peices get deleted right after. These seem to be universal problems as people I know who play have the same problems. other than that though the game is fun!!

What’s new

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