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. Customise 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.

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

It's a great game, no ads, adventure mode is fun and i love how you can make your own board and pieces along with their own designs. a suggestion i have is that you could play with random people online. one problem i have is that your custom board just disappears and its getting really frustrating remaking it over and over again, please fix and ill change to 5 stars!! Thanks for fixing it!!

A very well made sandbox, but I do run into a glitch where I'll take a check able piece, and the game keeps going. This doesn't happen when they can take mine, though. I also think adding upload able sounds for specific pieces, like a sound for moving a specific custom piece, or capturing with it, or an ability to have pieces have to wait 1 or more turns in between capturing a piece to move/attack would be useful for muskets or other pieces, having to reload would stop movement/attack, and sound

Great game. So far I've only played adventure, but it's pretty fun already. There are a few typos in some of the descriptions, but the reason I didn't give 5 stars was because of 2 things. First, I believe there is a wrong piece in front of the black tree in neebling (doe not lion). Second, I was trying to get the 2 seconds per turn badge and realized that it's basically impossible for levels 3 and 4 because they take a while to make a move and the timer seems to count their time.

What's new

Several bug fixes for combinations of: witch, fallow, mimic, en-passant, check, ferrophile, blacksmith, mimic, cannon, vagabond, fallow.
Font: Alice replaces CherryCreamSoda.
Other fixes: relics, profile backup.
UCI: now compatible with the universal chess interface. Sometimes a ChessCraft bot is available to play on lichess.org