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   ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves▲506

   2021 · chrisbutner.github.io

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   Chess Tent▲91

   A virtual chess gym for everyone

   2022

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   Chesster▲117

   3D Chess for your iPhone and iPad

   2015

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   Chesscademy▲135

   A fun and free way to learn chess.

   2014

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   Jongler▲106

   All you have to do is juggle the ball & smash the high score

   2016

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   Chessmaster AI▲232

   Transform Your Chess Skills with AI-Powered Training

   Jan 2026 · play.google.com

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   I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight▲155

   2025 · knightride.rakhim.org

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   Noctie▲284

   Practice chess with a genius owl

   2024

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   Visualizing Chess Games▲58

   2024 · louisabraham.github.io

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    Chessmate▲79

    Chess for macOS

    2020

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    Memory Chess▲198

    Train your spatial visualization with chess

    2025

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    Checkmate Champ – a training tool for chess tactics▲192

    2024 · checkmatechamp.net

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    Chess Scanner▲123

    Scan score sheets and generate chess games in seconds.

    2024

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    Half chess▲76

    A casual chess game where games only last 5 minutes

    2020

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    Chess With Friends▲105

    Play chess with friends right from Figma

    2020

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    Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves▲126

    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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    Chess Master▲76

    A real-time move calculator for online Chess

    2020

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    Chess Twist▲29

    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

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    ChessLair▲5

    Build, quiz, and remember your chess openings.

    May 2026 · chesslair.com

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    ChessBoss – enhancing physical chessboards with computer vision▲83

    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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    ChessWoodie▲26

    Chess tactics training inspired by the Woodpecker Method

    Jul 2026 · chesswoodie.com

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    Matchess▲48

    Find local chess players & events for casual real-life games

    2025

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    Chess bot predicts your blunders to beat you faster▲8

    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

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    Chess Neurons▲7

    Stop grinding tactics. Master Positional Chess & Strategy

    Jul 2026 · chessneurons.com

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