nowfound

Life & fun · April 29, 2026

Chess Peace

A peaceful puzzle game for iPhone, no chess knowledge needed

What it does

The puzzle at the core of Chess Peace is genuinely original: place one of each chess piece on an irregular board so no piece can take another. Rather than the conflict of traditional chess, here players find Chess Peace. It works for non-chess players and experts. It contains 26,500 puzzles of 3 difficulties across 5 modes, each a twist on the core rule, plus free Daily Puzzles. I'm a TV quiz producer, as well as a chess, puzzle & tech lover. This is my first app, built entirely independently.

Does the same job

all alternatives →
  • OO
    OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app2025 · offchess.com · ▲369

    Hi HN! I'm the developer of rdx, a mildly popular ad-free, privacy and user friendly Reddit client. This time, I made something for a very specific use case: solving chess puzzles with no internet. Why? Well, my Wi-Fi is terrible in the bathroom—and that's where I do some of my best thinking. I tried printing out “mate in X” puzzles to solve offline, but they weren’t fun without interaction. So I built OffChess. OffChess is an iPhone/Android app that contains over 100,000 chess puzzles, fully offline and completely ad-free. You can solve puzzles by category (Mate in…

  • Chess & Chat2022 · ▲163

    A new chess puzzle to solve every day

  • Chessmate2020 · ▲79

    Chess for macOS

  • Half chess2020 · ▲76

    A casual chess game where games only last 5 minutes

  • Not Chess2020 · ▲76

    A puzzling chess-like game

  • ChessBoutMay 2026 · chessbout.com · ▲12

    Multiple-choice chess duels & daily challenges ♟️

More life & fun this month

the category →

Launched alongside, April 2026

the whole month →
  • Brila1,367

    One-page websites from real Google Maps reviews

    AI · Apr 2026 · brila.ai

  • AG

    Thought the resources for GPU arch were lacking, so here we are

    Life & fun · Apr 2026 · jaso1024.com

  • IB

    Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.

    AI · Apr 2026 · github.com

  • AI meeting notes: now bot-free, in ChatGPT & Claude + more

    AI · Apr 2026 · fathom.ai

  • BC

    Life & fun · Apr 2026 · sam-burns.com

  • IB

    With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories. There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/ If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.

    AI · Apr 2026 · text.blogosphere.app