Drawless Chess

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About this game

Every game has a winner.

Drawless Chess reworks familiar chess rules to replace routine draw endings with decisive results. Checkmate still wins, but the Drawless rules keep the fight going:

• A player with no legal move loses under the default stalemate rule.
• Causing the same position a third time loses, unless every legal move repeats.
• When checkmate becomes impossible, the selected dead-position rule awards the game.
• A player left with only a king loses immediately.
• After 50 moves without a pawn move or capture, material points decide the winner.

PLAY COMPLETELY OFFLINE
Challenge the Drawless-tuned Fairy-Stockfish engine entirely on your device, without an account, internet connection, or online matchmaking. Choose from eight illustrated opponents: seven fixed-strength levels from Learner through Grandmaster, plus Vesper, the Adaptive opponent that matches your current strength and evolves after each unassisted game.

MAKE THE GAME YOURS
Start instantly with Quick Play, which chooses your side at random by default, or customize your side, opponent, rules, and clock. Choose untimed play, 3-, 5-, or 10-minute games, or a 15+10 control. An optional Escape variant changes how stalemate is scored.

BUILT FOR REAL GAMES
• Automatic local save and Resume
• Eight illustrated opponents, including Vesper with Adaptive strength
• Tap or drag pieces with legal-move guidance
• Captured-piece tracking, material scores, and piece-marked move history
• Optional threat indication for learning safer moves
• Hint, undo, pause, board flip, and resign controls
• Rematches after a finished game
• Local career record, streaks, opponent breakdown, and motivational game scores
• Clear victory and defeat effects with synchronized sampled sound
• Phone and tablet layouts

REVIEW THE GAME YOU JUST PLAYED
From the completed-game result, open Game Review for grades on your moves, better alternatives, short suggested lines, and move-by-move board replay. Analysis runs entirely on your device with the Drawless-tuned Fairy-Stockfish engine—there is no game upload or cloud analysis. Reviews are not saved as a review history.

FIVE DISTINCT THEMES
Switch between Imperial Marble, Desert Sandstone, Glacier Slate, Verdigris Copper, and Amethyst Geode. Your choice is remembered on your device.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account. No ads. No analytics or tracking. No in-app purchases. Games and preferences stay in local app storage, subject to your Android backup settings.

OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
Drawless Chess is licensed under GNU GPL version 3 or later. Project source and notices are available at:
https://github.com/DeviousVon/Drawless-Chess/releases/tag/v1.0.2

What’s new

Game Review now prepares in the background while the full victory or defeat presentation and sounds finish. Tap anywhere afterward to open Review. Review starts on your first move and shows only your moves by default; turn on Show opponent moves for the complete timeline. Save & exit returns Home, and Rematch is available when Review finishes.