ChessCraft
Frame of Mind
4.6
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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!
Release Details
| Publisher Country | US |
| Country Release Date | 2019-02-23 |
| Categories | Game, Board |
| Country / Regions | US |
| Developer Website | Frame of Mind |
| Support URL | Frame of Mind |
| Content Rating | Everyone |
Average Rating
11.07K+
Rating Breakdown
Featured Reviews
By Cari Rutland
2025-03-27
Version 1.16.30
DifficultLove itI am really enjoying the adventure mode. It's the coolest cheese game I have come across. I'm usually burned out after a game or two against a "computer," but not this game. The only thing I wish they would improve on is to better explain how pieces that aren't a classic cheese piece move. I really like that element of this app, but it's hard to defend or make strategic moves when the picture they show is so limited. Otherwise still worth a try. Still 5 stars.
By James Blodgett
2025-01-09
Version 1.16.28
BugsLove itI put this as 5 stars a while back, but I forgot to add this bit. Is a good game, love the idea and games, it's super fun. One problem I have is that when you upload a board to the community, you lose it in your play menu, and you have to go back into the site and import it again. If it made a copy of the board automatically, that would be amazing. Another thing would be if you added a search bar to the boards menu so you don't have to scroll through everything to find a board.
By Amy Dutton
2025-02-19
Version 1.16.30
DifficultHate itLevelLove itSo much fun! I love all the different challenges and some of the funky pieces! (Some of the pieces I can't stand simply because I can't figure them out - why will a lion capture this deer but not that one??? How are you supposed to checkmate when some pieces will not target the king?) But aside from that, I still give this game 5 stars because it's so much fun! I love that the levels are realistically challenging; I can almost always beat a level 3 computer, sometimes a level 4 but not level 5.
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