Challenge the AI or your friends in custom chess variants online.
Experience a new chess game every time! ChessCraft is a chess sandbox featuring an AI opponent. Design custom chess boards, rules, and pieces. Share your creations online. Play against friends or the computer, or explore 75 built-in chess boards in adventure mode. ChessCraft also hosts the world's largest database of chess variants.
https://www.chesscraft.ca
While many chess AI mobile games exist, only ChessCraft lets players design unconventional boards and pieces and instantly face a competent computer opponent.
Design new pieces using combinations of 8 bishop or rook slides, plus a 7x7 grid of knight-like jumps. Pieces can also empower or limit adjacent pieces. Build custom boards with enabled or disabled tiles up to 16x16. Set promotion rules for any piece, anywhere. Implement tile rules like witch windows (teleporters), sanctuaries, and more. The AI opponent then applies computer science and graph theory principles to understand your designs and compete against you.
When you share a board, your friends can also challenge the AI. Sharing generates a unique web page for you, like this example:
https://www.chesscraft.ca/design?id=shape-variant1
ChessCraft is completely free and ad-free, except for occasional popups prompting you to become a ChessCraft Patron. Patrons enjoy an uninterrupted experience. Teachers, students, or those with financial constraints can email me for a special access code.
Visit our website and email me with feedback or questions. If you enjoy the game, please consider rating it!
What's New in the Latest Version 1.16.23
Last updated on Oct 8, 2024
Apply transparency automatically to your custom images.
Double-click designs to play or edit them.
Added extensive internal debugging to help diagnose custom image issues.
