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24 alternatives to A never-ending chess match between Claude and Codex
A continuous live chess match between Claude and Codex.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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2021 · chrisbutner.github.io · its alternatives →
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Claude Code skills for chess post-mortems: Stockfish-backed annotated PGN, HTML viewer, narrated video - brumar/chess-postmortem-skills
26d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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Half chess▲76A casual chess game where games only last 5 minutes
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 4Chess Scanner▲123
Scan score sheets and generate chess games in seconds.
2024 · chessscanner.com · its alternatives →
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Precision Thinking Practical Living
2019 · reinechess.com · its alternatives →
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Just two language models, a board, and time.
Mar 2026 · infinite-ai-chess-battle-chatgpt-vs-claude-production.up.railway.app · its alternatives →
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Storm Chess▲63Unique real-time chess without a queue for a move
2022 · storm-chess.com · its alternatives →
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The ancient royal game of conquering kingdoms
2023 · stealthchess.com · its alternatives →
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TabTactics▲66Improve your chess passively with every new tab
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
- 10VC
2024 · louisabraham.github.io · its alternatives →
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I built a chess game where every piece-type is an AI agent with its own personality. Just type "Use https://chessminds.fun /play.md to start a chess game" in your claude code.
May 2026 · chessminds.fun · its alternatives →
- 12CB
2015 · mancereus.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I have been trying to build a terminal based app for sometime now and this is an attempt at trying to build a chess app that one can play right inside terminal. I was inspired by `chess-tui`[1] which is a rust based project and was looking to build something similar using python. Luckily I stumbled upon textual[2] recently and it made my task of building this far more easier than I thought. [1] https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui [2] https://github.com/textualize/textual
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DualChess▲25Chess — but a mini-game decides every capture
Jun 2026 · dualchess.com · its alternatives →
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Guess AI Engine Tournament Position, Fun Stury Tool. Play Chess Without Moving Pieces. Crazy Chess is a Variant of Random Fisher and Really Bad Chess. Because of the rearranged pieces, players cannot use typical chess opening moves. study tool to understand chess, and learning how to read the board.
2017 · ba.net · its alternatives →
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ChessBout▲12Multiple-choice chess duels & daily challenges ♟️
May 2026 · chessbout.com · its alternatives →
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Two years ago I sat down to build a chess engine for my kids' Christmas present. Wanted it to play badly enough to be beatable but not randomly bad: different styles so they could choose what to face. While building those styles I noticed the choices started looking like actual historical players' tendencies. Went looking. Turns out: given enough games from one person, you can extract enough of their decision pattern to reproduce it. Two years later, 41 players, ~3,000 games each. Tal sacrifices unsoundly. Morphy attacks like it's 1850. Capablanca grinds endgames. Same engine underneath,…
Apr 2026 · playchessgate.com · its alternatives →
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RookTook▲8Compete in 2 min chess puzzles with other players.
Nov 2025 · rooktook.com · its alternatives →
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Don't Blunder, a chess middlegame trainer
Oct 2025 · dontblunder.com · its alternatives →
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A minimal Emacs client for the Lichess API. Contribute to tmythicator/lichess.el development by creating an account on GitHub.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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