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

This game is probably the best custom chess system available for now, but there's one problem I'm starting to see, sometimes when I finish making a new board and save it then get an ad for this game, I just ignore it and close the game because I did what I wanted to but when I relaunch it later, the next thing I know: the board I made is gone. So you should probably look into this because needing to replicate and make the board all over again isn't nice, I had to do it like 4 times because of it

Great game and allows you to make the chess pieces and boards of your dream. It's everything you could want from a game about chess and more. It works really well except when you make MASSIVE boards the game doesn't work too well and starts to glitch out. Sometimes when I make a board the game deletes it after I exit the app. Just bugs I would like to have fixed but other than that It's a great app, would recommend

Had to downgrade to 2. Why are the boards I create fail to save? They keep deleting themselves. Trying to share them online then importing them has errors which I also assume they have been deleted. Also, chess pieces that are adjacent to pieces that have the warden rule or equivalent of can no longer move if a different piece captures the piece(s) with the warden rule. You have to exit the app and go back in for all those pieces being able to move again, but other issues happen.

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