ChessCraft
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4.4star
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PEGI 3
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About this game
Never play the same game of chess again! ChessCraft is a chess sandbox with an AI computer opponent. Customize chess boards, rules, and pieces. Share your creations online. Play your friends online, or play the computer, or choose from one of 75 built-in chess boards in adventure mode. ChessCraft is also the world's largest chess variant database.
https://www.chesscraft.ca
Many chess AI mobile games already exist, but only ChessCraft allows the player to create such wacky boards and pieces and immediately play a decent computer opponent.
Create new pieces with any combination of the 8 bishop or rook slides, plus a 7x7 grid of knight-like hops. Pieces can also enhance or restrict nearby pieces. Create new boards with any enabled or disabled tile up to 16x16. Place promotion rules for any piece, anywhere. Place tile rules like witch windows (teleporters), sanctuaries, and more. The computer AI opponent then uses concepts from computer science and graph theory to understand your creations and play against you.
When you share a board, your friends can play the AI too. Sharing creates a new web page just for you, like this:
https://www.chesscraft.ca/design?id=shape-variant1
ChessCraft is full and free with no ads, except for the occasional popup which asks you to buy ChessCraft Patron. If you become a patron, you won't see those interruptions anymore. If you're a teacher, student, or you cannot afford ChessCraft Patron, send me an email and I'll send you a special code.
Visit the website and send me an email if you have any feedback or questions. If you like the game, please rate it!
https://www.chesscraft.ca
Many chess AI mobile games already exist, but only ChessCraft allows the player to create such wacky boards and pieces and immediately play a decent computer opponent.
Create new pieces with any combination of the 8 bishop or rook slides, plus a 7x7 grid of knight-like hops. Pieces can also enhance or restrict nearby pieces. Create new boards with any enabled or disabled tile up to 16x16. Place promotion rules for any piece, anywhere. Place tile rules like witch windows (teleporters), sanctuaries, and more. The computer AI opponent then uses concepts from computer science and graph theory to understand your creations and play against you.
When you share a board, your friends can play the AI too. Sharing creates a new web page just for you, like this:
https://www.chesscraft.ca/design?id=shape-variant1
ChessCraft is full and free with no ads, except for the occasional popup which asks you to buy ChessCraft Patron. If you become a patron, you won't see those interruptions anymore. If you're a teacher, student, or you cannot afford ChessCraft Patron, send me an email and I'll send you a special code.
Visit the website and send me an email if you have any feedback or questions. If you like the game, please rate it!
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Ratings and reviews
4.5
10.4K reviews
Oliver Riches
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March 24, 2025
I like it, it's a great way to pass time. Although I've realised whenever I have a lot of custom chess pieces on a board that am playing on there's a chance (not always) that it straight up kicks me onto the home screen. It doesn't do this at all whenever am creating a piece/board it only does this whenever am playing a game. It's completely random so it doesn't always happen on every game. Besides that though the game great, just gets a little annoying whenever it decides to crash randomly.
18 people found this review helpful
Daniel Yuan
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December 22, 2020
Great game. So far I've only played adventure, but it's pretty fun already. There are a few typos in some of the descriptions, but the reason I didn't give 5 stars was because of 2 things. First, I believe there is a wrong piece in front of the black tree in neebling (doe not lion). Second, I was trying to get the 2 seconds per turn badge and realized that it's basically impossible for levels 3 and 4 because they take a while to make a move and the timer seems to count their time.
67 people found this review helpful
Frame of Mind
January 1, 2021
Oops, you're right! I'll fix Neebling in the next version. As for the timer, it should be working correctly. You may be seeing your opponent's timer tick, which is okay. I have won those time badges on 3 and 4 plenty. Thanks for the review!
Alejandro González Cuesta
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February 25, 2023
Its a great game, very good idea, but there is a bug, that makes this game almost impossible to play, the computer problem, when I get it, even if I win the game, I don't get the gems. Also, it usually happens when I'm about to win, like crowning a pawn or eating the last piece of the AI, so I only give this game 2 stars, if that's solved, I'll give it more stars. Keep up the good work
2 people found this review helpful
Frame of Mind
April 26, 2023
Hello. Thanks for the bug report. Unfortunately, I don’t quite understand what you mean. If you'd like to send a bug report, feel free to send me an email. See the instructions here:
https://chesscraft.ca/faq?language=#question-72557ec9
What’s new
Bug fixes.
User interface improvements.
Fixed ghost appearance.
Added graphics for special days.
User interface improvements.
Fixed ghost appearance.
Added graphics for special days.
App support
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