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CHESS
Every capture is a fight.
Simple, proper chess with a soft glossy army and a bot in four moods. Take a piece and the board wipes away to an arena: thirty pairings, thirty little fight scenes.
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Fights
Take a piece, start a fight
The board wipes away to an arena. The attacker uses its signature move, and the captured piece goes down in its own way. Thirty pairings, each with its own name.
Pawn
Three determined hops, a crouch, a shield-first lunge.
Knight
Leaps straight up, then dives across in an L and stomps.
Bishop
Gathers light and fires a beam that zigzags off the ceiling and floor.
Rook
Rumbles, backs up, then charges like a battering ram.
Queen
Vanishes into four slashing dashes, then cuts in all eight directions.
King
One solemn square, a kneel, and a giant royal seal from the sky.
Thirty fights.
The Knight stomps, the Bishop's beam zigzags off the ceiling, the Queen cuts eight ways. A Pawn taking a Queen is a Giant Slayer.
Every rule.
Castling, en passant, promotion, the fifty-move rule, threefold repetition, insufficient material.
A bot in four moods.
Squire, Knight, Champion, Grandmaster. Ask it for a hint and it draws you an arrow.
Pieces with eyes.
Drawn from math, not bitmaps: they squash, stretch, hop, flinch and wince at any size.
A thinking score.
Unhurried piano over minor chords that tightens in check and gives way to drums in a fight.
Screens
Take a look at the board
01 / 06 · ← → to look aroundswipe to look around
Glossy ivory and onyx armies, and a running move list.
Controls
Click, or use the keys
Expansions
More to play
New sets, scenes and challenges for the board. When one is published, it appears here.
The first expansion is on its way.
Download
Take it home
One small file for Windows. Double-click it; it opens in Windows Terminal.
Windows
Windows 10 and 11
macOS
Apple silicon and Intel
Linux
x64, any modern terminal