Alternatives

Products that do what Monsiv – A lightweight alternative to Chess does

1. 1RC
   R-cade, a simple arcade game engine for Racket▲205

   2020 · 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. 4OS
   Open-sourced my Java chess AI high school project▲51

   2013 · github.com

5. 5CA
   Crown – A flexible game engine written from scratch in C++▲193

   2017 · github.com

6. 6TA
   Toy – A thin C++ game engine▲180

   2018 · hugoam.github.io

7. 7AP
   A point-and-click game engine▲72

   2019 · purdone.com

8. 8AA
   Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks▲118

   2019 · github.com

9. 9AP
   A puzzle game inspired by functional programming, written in PureScript▲121

   2015 · david-peter.de

10. 10PC
    Play Chess Without Moving Pieces▲36

    2017 · ba.net

11. 11MA
    Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine▲10

    2020 · maiachess.com

12. 12
    Monsiv▲74

    Fast, simple game but with real deep strategy

    2018

13. 13BA
    Ballparq – a small PaaS for Godot games▲71

    2020 · ballparq.games

14. 14AI
    A Implementation of Alpha Zero for Chess in MLX▲71

    A chess engine implementation inspired by AlphaZero, using MLX for neural network computations and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) for move selection.

    2025 · github.com

15. 15AS
    A simple site to make chessboard images▲79

    2020 · chessboardimage.com

16. 16NA
    NumPop, a small mathematical puzzle game▲17

    2017 · petedeas.co.uk

17. 17AO
    An Open Source Number Game▲36

    2013 · zachschnell.com

18. 18ZA
    Zero – an HTML5 game about modular arithmetic and prime numbers▲39

    2015 · zero.karaniwan.org

19. 19MM
    Math Machine – a game based on the concept of a stack machine▲10

    2014 · play.google.com

20. 20SG
    Simple Gaming AI▲11

    2017 · github.com

21. 21PC
    Parallel Chess engine written in Haskell▲8

    2017 · github.com

22. 22SA
    Sortes Alearum – a web emulator for an ancient Roman dice oracle▲7

    2022 · sortesalearum.com

23. 23ID
    I designed a printable parametric open source chess set▲7

    2012 · iamwil.posterous.com

24. 24TA
    Termite, a minimalist real-time strategy game▲6

    2023 · milgra.com

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