ChessCraft

Never play the same game of chess again with ChessCraft! This innovative chess sandbox lets you customize boards, rules, and pieces, and challenge an AI opponent or your friends online. Dive into adventure mode with one of the 75 built-in chess boards, or explore the world's largest chess variant database.

Visit ChessCraft to unleash your creativity. Design wacky boards and pieces with unique movements, combining bishop and rook slides with knight-like hops in a 7x7 grid. Enhance or restrict nearby pieces, create boards up to 16x16 with enabled or disabled tiles, and set custom promotion and tile rules like witch windows and sanctuaries. The AI uses advanced algorithms from computer science and graph theory to adapt to your creations and provide a challenging match.

Share your masterpieces online, and your friends can play against the AI too. Each shared board gets its own unique web page, like this: https://www.chesscraft.ca/design?id=shape-variant1.

ChessCraft is completely free and ad-free, though you may encounter occasional prompts to become a ChessCraft Patron for an uninterrupted experience. If you're a teacher, student, or facing financial constraints, just send an email for a special code.

Have feedback or questions? Visit the website and reach out via email. If you enjoy the game, please leave a rating!

What's New in Version 1.16.23

Last updated on Oct 8, 2024

• Automatically apply transparency to custom images.
• Double click designs to play or edit them.
• Enhanced internal debugging to resolve custom image issues.

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