Life & fun · September 6, 2026
4D Chess
What it does
A demo game is playing. Drag the tesseract to rotate it, scroll to zoom, or tap a piece on the flat boards to take over. Four boards make one tesseract. A rook slides from one board to the same square on the next; your king can be in check from a piece in the other cube. Play people or the computer, free, no account needed. Bullet, blitz, rapid, classical and daily games. Rated with Glicko-2, or casual. Four levels, from a pawn that blunders to a queen that searches four plies deep. Mate in one and two across the boards, rated so they keep pace with you. Plus Puzzle Rush. Hourly arenas. Join late, get paired the moment you are free, streak for double points. From 3D to 4D in four steps,…from 4dchess.org
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