Alternatives

Products that do what Esochess, customized chess (3/4 player, capablanca, two king) in C/WASM does

1. 1KF
   Kung Fu Chess▲140

   2019 · github.com

2. 2SC
   Scannable Chess Scoresheets▲117

   2019 · reinechess.com

3. 3SA
   Sokyokuban, a puzzle game in a non-Euclidian world▲184

   2021 · sokyokuban.com

4. 4
   4D Chess▲2

   9h ago · 4dchess.org

5. 53C
   3D chess game done entirely in HTML/CSS/javascript (webkit only)▲10

   2012 · codepen.io

6. 6ID
   I designed a printable parametric open source chess set▲7

   2012 · iamwil.posterous.com

7. 7AR
   A RISC-V core in Racket▲122

   2021 · guillaume.baierouge.fr

8. 8LE
   Lichess.el – Play Lichess Inside Emacs▲22

   Jan 2026 · github.com

9. 9OS
   Open-sourced my Java chess AI high school project▲51

   2013 · github.com

10. 10CA
    Cicada, a hobby chess engine written in Rust▲10

    2017 · github.com

11. 11MA
    Monsiv – A lightweight alternative to Chess▲17

    2018 · monsiv.com

12. 12MP
    Multi-player Competitive Conway's Game of Life▲85

    2014 · gameoflifetotalwar.com

13. 13CI
    Chess in Elm▲6

    2016 · github.com

14. 14PC
    Printable Chess Set▲6

    2022 · observablehq.com

15. 15CT
    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

16. 16PC
    Play Chess Without Moving Pieces▲36

    2017 · ba.net

17. 17AS
    A Simple COBOL Game, TicTacTOBOL▲23

    2020 · github.com

18. 18AD
    A Different Kind of Scoreboard▲23

    2012 · scoreboard.dpearson.me

19. 19CH
    Chess Hold'em▲7

    Oct 2025 · chessholdem.net

20. 20CA
    Colorbars – A challenging new take on the match three game genre▲27

    2014 · itunes.apple.com

21. 21CG
    CS:GO HideNSeek▲25

    2015 · github.com

22. 22AA
    Animate Any Chess Opening▲17

    2021 · deepnote.com

23. 23CB
    ChessMe board game 2nd Edition – chess without board▲21

    2015 · mancereus.github.io

24. 24PA
    Porting a Classic 1970s Chess Program to Modern Hardware▲5

    2020 · github.com

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