Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to e4e5
Casual, minimal chess app
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. e4e5 launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Play against Stockfish engine, get best hints.
2025 · play-chess-stockfish.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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I made a chess engine today, and made it fit within 2KB. I used a variant of MinMax called Negamax, with alpha beta pruning. For the board representation I have used a 120-cell "mailbox". I managed to squeeze in checkmate/stalemate in there, after trimming out some edge cases. I am a great fan of demoscene (computer art subculture) since middle school, and hence it was a ritual i had to perform. For estimating the Elo, I measured 240 automated games against Stockfish Elo levels (1320 to 1600) under fixed depth-5 and some constrained rules, using equal color distribution. Then converted…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Play chess in your browser – with Stockfish AI power.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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Master chess with Stockfish AI or challenge friends online
2025 · speedmat.ing · 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
25d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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BrainyChess▲83Play, practice, analyze, and save chess games online!
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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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 :)
2025 · abstractboardgames.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · rootshirechess.glitch.me · its alternatives →
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Ruin their weekend. One move at a time 😉.
Apr 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Spicy Chess▲76Hello! I created SpicyChess(https://spicychess.com) because I wanted a tactics training app that would have the following features: - Spaced Repetition. - Countdown time to simulate blitz Chess where you have to find the best move quickly. - The ability to save puzzles for later review. I'd love to hear any feedback that you may have !
2023 · spicychess.com · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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Contribute to openwhisk-blog/whisk-chess development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Halfchess▲69Learn to be a better Chess player, playable in your browser
2017 · halfchess.com · its alternatives →
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Play chess online or offline, analyze games with an engine.
Jun 2026 · play.google.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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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…
2025 · 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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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 · its alternatives →
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Silksong Save Editor: Manage Your Game Progress Easily
Oct 2025 · chessanalysis.net · its alternatives →
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