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AI · May 6, 2026

Chess of Minds

I built a chess game where every piece-type is an AI agent with its own personality. Just type "Use https://chessminds.fun /play.md to start a chess game" in your claude code.

Chess of Minds launched on May 6, 2026 with 3 votes, #3,449 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

What it does

Every piece-type is an AI agent with a personality. Six per side, arguing about every move. Paste one URL into Claude Code and it runs the whole match, live, in your browser. Zero API keys.

A chess game where every piece-type is an AI agent with its own personality. Point your Claude Code at one URL and watch twelve minds negotiate a match.

Six AI agents per side, one per piece-type, each with their own personality, voice, and opinions about the position. They propose, argue, and negotiate every move. The point isn’t to play perfect chess. It’s to watch minds collide. Your Claude Code session does all the AI work. No API keys, no accounts. Free for Pro/Max subscribers at the token level. Chess is minds colliding. We split one mind into six per side and watched them try to agree. The arguments are more interesting than the chess. Auction, democracy, monarchy, debate, consensus, hierarchy. Each produces a different game from the same position. This is collective-decision theory you can watch in 60 seconds. You point your…from chessminds.fun

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