Chess, with the handshake removed.
PLAYTwo players, one screen, red against black. No account, no matchmaking, no rating to protect. You turn the laptop around, they make a terrible move, you turn it back. This is the correct way to play chess and the internet has spent twenty years forgetting it.
The move generator is a complete implementation, not an approximation. Castling on both sides, en passant, promotion, pinned pieces, and the difference between check, checkmate and stalemate all behave the way they should. It was verified by counting every legal position several moves deep — sixteen million of them — and matching those counts against the known correct values, which is the standard way a chess engine proves it is not quietly making up moves.
Taking a piece is not a tidy swap. Pieces are dispatched rather than removed, and the board keeps a record of it. The look is deliberately blunt — pixel art, two colours, no board theme to pick — and the game ends when a king falls, which it announces without ceremony.
| Move | Click or tap a piece, then its destination. Legal squares are shown. |
|---|---|
| Sound | Toggle from the menu. |
| Resume | A game in progress is picked up where you left it. |