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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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    Play chess online for free against computer or friend!

    Jan 2026 · free-online-chess.com

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    Four player chess with a simple invite link

    16d ago · 4playerchess.plus

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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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    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, create, & collect your favourite games of chess

    2022

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    Chess pattern training. No timers, no streaks, no ratings.

    Jun 2026 · boxwoodchess.com

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    Hi HN! I built a simple chess game so that my son in Singapore can play chess with his grandfather in China. Why? There is currently no service or open source software that has all of the following: * All processing and assets on a single server (Critical to workaround a firewall) * No email account required (Chinese Internet services typically login via WeChat) * Works on Android browser * Simple to install and config I built it, together with Claude Code, using simple and boring technologies (Django + Client-side JS). I hope that when you use it, you will find it simple to understand…

    Sep 2025 · github.com

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    A fun and free way to learn chess.

    2014

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    Play chess with friends right from Figma

    2020

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    Casual, minimal chess app

    2020

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    2020 · rootshirechess.glitch.me

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    Play four-dimensional chess with a friend or the computer.

    4h ago · 4dchess.lol

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    Chess — but a mini-game decides every capture

    Jun 2026 · dualchess.com

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    Play online chess for free

    Jul 2026 · chessrooms.vercel.app

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

    19d ago · gmchess.online

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    Play free online chess vs powerful AI. No login.

    Jan 2026 · chessmoveexpert.com

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    Hello HN, For a few months I'm been working on a fun side-project to port the (awesome) chessboardjs library to an easily reusable and embeddable web component. The quarantine has finally spurred me to put the finishing touches on it. https://justinfagnani.github.io/chessboard-element/ It works in plain HTML files just by writing an HTML tag: And it works in any framework because it's just an HTML element. Styling is encapsulated and customizable with CSS properties and parts: chess-board { --dark-color: darkmagenta; } /* Highlight the e2 square in red */…

    2020

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    Multiple-choice chess duels & daily challenges ♟️

    May 2026 · chessbout.com

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    Tl;dr: Would like to hear thoughts on board games platform prototype (https://bordga.me/games/7) We are building an online board games platform which lets you create & play any board game online while video chatting with your co-players. Game play resembles the real world where users have to do everything from moving the pieces to enforcing the rules. We are quite early in our journey. We prototyped Chess to see if people would be interested in this direction. Please try it here! (https://bordga.me/games/7) You can enter your name that creates a new…

    2021

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    Play real-time chess with friends and players worldwide.

    Jan 2026 · play.google.com

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    Free browser chess for kids — no signup, no ads in the way

    May 2026 · spinthecrocodile.com

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

    Jun 2026 · play.google.com

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