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    Hi HN! I'm the developer of rdx, a mildly popular ad-free, privacy and user friendly Reddit client. This time, I made something for a very specific use case: solving chess puzzles with no internet. Why? Well, my Wi-Fi is terrible in the bathroom—and that's where I do some of my best thinking. I tried printing out “mate in X” puzzles to solve offline, but they weren’t fun without interaction. So I built OffChess. OffChess is an iPhone/Android app that contains over 100,000 chess puzzles, fully offline and completely ad-free. You can solve puzzles by category (Mate in…

    2025 · offchess.com

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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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    GoChess173

    The most powerful Chess board ever invented

    2023

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    Play chess online for free against computer or friend!

    Jan 2026 · free-online-chess.com

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    Noctie284

    Practice chess with a genius owl

    2024

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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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    A casual chess game where games only last 5 minutes

    2020

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    Play, create, & collect your favourite games of chess

    2022

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    Padel tactics learning app

    Feb 2026 · padelchess.me

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    Play chess online or offline, analyze games with an engine.

    Jun 2026 · play.google.com

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    Play real-time multiplayer chess with friends or AI

    May 2026 · superchess.iamraj.dev

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    Guess sports winners without the betting

    2018

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    Chess for macOS

    2020

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    We built ChessBoss at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon this week. It didn’t make the top 10 but I thought Hacker News might think it’s pretty cool. https://devpost.com/software/chess-boss There are these really cool smart chessboards that can suggest moves and track your games... but they’re $400 and weigh 19 pounds. And of course there are apps that can analyze games but tracking and inputting games by hand is a huge pain. Or fully-digital chess apps... but board games are way more fun in real life! We wondered: “why can’t you just do that in software and bring the best…

    2019 · devpost.com

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    Chess — but a mini-game decides every capture

    Jun 2026 · dualchess.com

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    Free chess game analysis with engine review

    Feb 2026 · yoochess.vercel.app

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    160+ free browser games that work offline, no install

    Aug 2026 · appfreegame.games

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    Stop playing chess. Start understanding it.

    Jul 2026 · learnchess.ai

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    Hi HN, I’ve released a new version of chess-tui, a Rust terminal UI for playing live games against Lichess opponents. The update includes a cleaner TUI, better performance, improved keybindings, and smoother real-time integration with the Lichess API. It’s designed as a simple, fast way to play chess without leaving the terminal. Repo:https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui Feedback and bug reports are welcome. Happy to answer questions!

    Dec 2025 · github.com

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    Play Chess Online. No Sign-Up. No Ratings. Just Play.

    19d ago · gmchess.online

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    Minimalist daily chess habit game

    Dec 2025 · dailychessblitz.com

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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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    Compete in 2 min chess puzzles with other players.

    Nov 2025

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    Multiple-choice chess duels & daily challenges ♟️

    May 2026 · chessbout.com

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