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24 alternatives to Letsplay:Chess

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Letsplay:Chess launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Invite your friends to play chess with you in real time!

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Play chess with friends right from Figma

    2020 · figma.com · its alternatives →

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    All chess tournaments in one place

    2023 · worldchesscalendar.com · its alternatives →

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    Memorize a chess position, rebuild it from memory, and get an instant score. Play free to train board vision, visualization, and spatial memory.

    2025 · thememorychess.com · its alternatives →

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    Play Chess in Slack with your fellow workspace members

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Aimchess▲129

    Learn chess your way with AI tools and data driven approach.

    2020 · aimchess.com · its alternatives →

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    BreakBase.com. Play your favorite games, with anyone you

    2012 · breakbase.com · its alternatives →

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    Chess and Ping Pong tracking in Slack

    2015 · playplay.io · its alternatives →

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    Recreating battles from history in chess

    2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Scan score sheets and generate chess games in seconds.

    2024 · chessscanner.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13CG

    For no specific reason, I trained a neural network to generate random chess positions that look similar to positions from actual games (from lichess db). I also made it so you can condition it on some fixed pieces, and adjust the number of pieces. It turned out to be quite effective and I find it surprisingly fun and instructive to generate e.g. endgame positions with a certain pawn structure (set low temperature, place some pawns and position the kings, adjust number of pieces to get an endgame), and then figure out how to win vs. the computer in those positions. I hooked it up so that you…

    2024 · chessdream.ai · its alternatives →

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    A virtual chess gym for everyone

    2022 · chesstent.com · its alternatives →

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    3Chess▲106

    Play three player chess online free for web and mobile

    2023 · 3-chess.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16CE

    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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    Chess, but each square also follows the rules of Conway's Game of Life. Only your own pieces count as neighbours when deciding births/deaths. For births, an empty square must have 3 neighbours for 2 consecutive turns. For deaths, a piece must have 3 neighbours for 3 consecutive turns. This is a simple proof of concept I made with python and curses. You can play with a friend locally or over a socket connection. Controls: Arrow keys to move the cursor, enter/space to select and move a piece, u or backspace to undo a move, r to redo a move, q or escape to quit, s to perform a move…

    2023 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 250 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!

    2011 · multiplayerchess.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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    Chess — but a mini-game decides every capture

    Jun 2026 · dualchess.com · its alternatives →

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    Play chess with your mates without leaving Slack.

    2019 · slack.com · its alternatives →

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    Program that enables you to play online chess using real chess boards. - Play-online-chess-with-real-chess-board/README.md at main · karayaman/Play-online-chess-with-real-chess-board

    2021 · github.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 →

  24. 24OC

    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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