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Play four-dimensional chess with a friend or the computer.
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Play chess online for free against computer or friend!
Jan 2026 · free-online-chess.com
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2025 · knightride.rakhim.org
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Thought I would post in celebration of 1 year of my website being online. I've been working on it on and off and currently the website allows users to play Hex, Tumbleweed, Amazons, and Connect 6 against friends or against practice bots. I've been a long time player of some of these games and I felt for a long time that the world could use a few more popular abstract strategy games compared to Chess or Go. If you try it, let me know what you think. I'm always looking for new games or new features to add :)
Oct 2025 · abstractboardgames.com
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Chess, but each square also follows the rules of Conway's Game of Life. Only your own pieces count as neighbours when deciding births/deaths. For births, an empty square must have 3 neighbours for 2 consecutive turns. For deaths, a piece must have 3 neighbours for 3 consecutive turns. This is a simple proof of concept I made with python and curses. You can play with a friend locally or over a socket connection. Controls: Arrow keys to move the cursor, enter/space to select and move a piece, u or backspace to undo a move, r to redo a move, q or escape to quit, s to perform a move…
2023 · gist.github.com
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Laser is a turn based game similar to chess, with different piece movement rules, starting position, and win conditions. It's named after the laser piece, which can shoot diagonally through every piece on the board except for the wall, which blocks it. The detailed rules are on the website. I made the website as a super minimal way to play online against friends. Nobody really knows about it so it might be hard to find a game, but maybe you will against someone on HN if people read this. It uses the lichess.org chessboard UI which is super pretty and allows you to draw on the board, make…
2023 · playlaser.xyz
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2017 · ba.net
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blunderchess.net is an open source, peer-to-peer chess app where every five moves, players each get to make one blunder-move for their opponent
2025 · blunderchess.net
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My personal project: https://github.com/leonidasdeim/chasse Goal was to build session based chessboard game without any rules - to play just like oldschool over the board. Just create new board and share link with a friend. I would appreciate any feedback and github star. Thanks!
2023 · chasse.fun
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Play real-time chess with friends and players worldwide.
Jan 2026 · play.google.com
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Play chess vs AI or yourself — free, no account required
20d ago · grandmasterchess.in
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2021 · github.com
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