ChessCraft

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4.4
10.3K reviews
500K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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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!
Updated on
28 Sept 2024

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Ratings and reviews

4.4
9.39K reviews
Renin Cole
13 September 2024
This is a very good game! Sure the UI is kinda bad but it's still amazing. I've read the 1 and 2 star reviews and I feel like most of them are wrong. I suggest learning the game before you complain that you got a stalemate. The creation of pieces and boards are really cool. A good idea would be to change how many players can play.
28 people found this review helpful
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Daniel Yuan
22 December 2020
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.
59 people found this review helpful
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Frame of Mind
1 January 2021
Oops, you're right! I'll fix Neebling in the next version. As for the timer, it should be working correctly. You may be seeing your opponent's timer tick, which is okay. I have won those time badges on 3 and 4 plenty. Thanks for the review!
Dragon
24 November 2022
Could use more abilities such as area attack, & attacking multiple times in one turn. Also: To those who play this game for the first time. If you create a unit, you can tap on a square in the preview menu for attacks or movement, & allow them to use a knight hop attack/move to there. This is useful for creating complex or strong characters.
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What's new

Automatically apply transparency to your custom images.
Double click designs to play or edit them.
Added lots of internal debugging to help diagnose custom image problems.