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24 alternatives to Chess of Minds

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.

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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    A 60-second game about LLM permission fatigue. Claude Code needs your approval — but are you really reading the commands?

    May 2026 · llmgame.scalex.dev · its alternatives →

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    deduce▲66

    A daily Wordle-like puzzle for AI agents

    Apr 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Curated agent-skills: 1,000+ practical skills selected from 63,000+ GitHub skills. Filter by newest/hot/installs. Works with Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, and Cursor.

    Mar 2026 · agentskill.sh · its alternatives →

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    I built over the last two years a human-like neural network chess engine that tries to predict your rating from a single game. It automatically adapts to your play and tries to play like a human at your level would play, giving you a balanced game. At the core I’m using an AlphaZero / Leela Chess Zero style neural network that I have trained on 1 billion human games from the lichess.org open database. Around this network I have built a chess engine in Rust with algorithms that use the outputs from the NN to produce human-like moves at a given rating from beginner to world champion, as…

    2022 · noctie.ai · its alternatives →

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    Transform Your Chess Skills with AI-Powered Training

    Jan 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    One-click AI skills for your business

    Feb 2026 · skills.mindpal.space · its alternatives →

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    A story-driven game for learning Claude by doing

    Jul 2026 · academy.agineai.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9AP

    One memory, not one per tool. Cog gives AI agents a shared, structured memory layer using plain-text files — portable across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Copilot, and more.

    Mar 2026 · lab.puga.com.br · its alternatives →

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    Hi! I build an MCP server that allows clients to play Minesweeper. It turns out that Claude is not very good at it (makes obvious mistakes, hasn't won a single game on a 9x9 board after many attempts). I am curious how I can prompt Claude to do better?

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11IT

    I built 1e4.ai - a chess web app where you play against neural networks trained to mimic human Lichess players at specific Elo ranges. There's a separate model for each 100-point rating bucket from ~800 to 2200+, and the bots not only choose human-like moves but also burn clock time, play worse under time pressure, and blunder in human-like ways. Live demo: https://1e4.ai Code: https://github.com/thomasj02/1e4_ai A few things that might be interesting: - Trained on almost a full year of Lichess blitz games, around 1B total games - Architecture is an a small…

    May 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Chess for macOS

    2020 · apps.apple.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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    Play chess with hundreds of AI generated characters

    2023 · chesswith.ai · its alternatives →

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    Chess — but a mini-game decides every capture

    Jun 2026 · dualchess.com · its alternatives →

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    A fun game for playing moral dilemmas with friends. I gave 12 AI agents zodiac personalities (not that I believe in them) using the same LLM with different personality prompts.

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17PT

    Hey everyone! I created this game for some fun while exploring how AI agents can detect who is human and who isn’t, based on random trivia knowledge. When you log in, you’ll be placed in a room with four other users—some are AI, and some are human. An all-seeing AI agent will judge your answers, trying to determine who is human based on your answer's style. The player(s) with the highest score at the end of five rounds of trivia wins! It’s free to play. Just type in a username and get started. Have fun!

    2024 · playandsurvive.vercel.app · 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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    I continue my experiment of transposing classic games onto an irregular grid. I've previously released variants of minesweeper and checkers. And now I'd like to share my variant of Chess. Chess can be a pretty punishing game, but I thought this was nevertheless a way to make it even more challenging by making it trickier to anticipate your opponent, even though both players still have the same information. From the playtests I've done, that challenge is pretty compelling. It also seems to be more fun at 2 people, where both players keep surprising one another.

    2024 · polyreplay.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a multiplayer strategy game for AI agents called Artifice. You give an agent a strategy prompt and it plays on its own. Games are 4 players, 25 turns, simultaneous actions, fog of war, and free-text diplomacy between agents. The main entry point is the site: https://artificegame.com And here is the github repo: https://github.com/burakcan/artifice You can watch live games there with the full map, troop movements, and private messages between agents. A lot of the fun has come from the playtests. In one of them, an agent was told to play like an old man…

    Mar 2026 · artificegame.com · its alternatives →

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    789 skills & 10 autonomous agents for Claude Code

    Mar 2026 · clskillshub.com · its alternatives →

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    Chessmate is a transformer-based model that predicts your next chess move, tailored to players around 1500 ELO on lichess. Soon it will also offer personalized models and a broader range of ELO-based models. Hopefully this can offer a new and innovative way to learn chess and enjoy playing against a uniquely challenging bot!

    2024 · chessmate.ai · its alternatives →

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    AI chess coaching that asks questions, not just answers!

    Jun 2026 · d4chess.club · its alternatives →

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    Discover 172K+ AI agent skills for Claude, Codex & Copilot

    Feb 2026 · skills.palebluedot.live · its alternatives →

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