Lazy Chess

Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis

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About this game

Lazy Chess is a free, non-profit game created for casual players and enthusiasts alike, where players, at worst, make the second best move available to them. On average, there are more than 30 legal chess moves available to a player in a turn, creating vigintillions of possibilities throughout a game. Lazy Chess compresses that by having you choose only two in a given turn selected by Stockfish, the most robust chess engine in the world. The catch? You won’t know which move is the best!

Learn new skills while you compete against a highly skilled AI, online friends and random opponents. Unlock new themes and settings that up the difficulty, and play challenges of famous board states provided from some of the world's most active grandmasters.

Lazy Chess is open source and available on GitHub. It is made by Cinq-Mars Media, an educational non-profit with projects and games featured at E3, PAX and other festivals worldwide.

Ratings and reviews

Excellent idea. I have a bug though. On Mi 9T pro, in the evenings, when the phone goes into dark mode, all the pieces are drawn in white and really hard to distinguish.

After several games, it changes which moves to choose from. You get to play different opening moves (not just e4 or e5) which is great! As a completely casual player, it is satisfying choosing the correct move.

I was asked d4 or e4 in the first move, and I chose d4, and it said it was the worst move...that doesn't make sense. Because d4 is a book move also one of the best openings in Chess. I think standard opening moves can't be judged as they can only be seen as still in draw position...I mean no one got advantage in the beginning. You've to improve this

What's new

Stability + performance enhancements