Experience endless variety with ChessCraft, the ultimate chess sandbox that lets you play against an AI or challenge your friends online. Say goodbye to repetitive games and hello to a world where you can customize chess boards, rules, and pieces to your heart's content. With ChessCraft, you can share your unique creations online and explore one of the 75 built-in chess boards in adventure mode. Dive into the world's largest chess variant database and let your creativity soar.

Visit ChessCraft to start your journey. Unlike other chess AI mobile games, ChessCraft stands out by allowing you to craft wacky boards and pieces, then immediately test them against a competent computer opponent.

Unleash your imagination by creating new pieces with any combination of the 8 bishop or rook slides, plus a 7x7 grid of knight-like hops. You can also enhance or restrict nearby pieces, design new boards with enabled or disabled tiles up to 16x16, and set promotion rules for any piece, anywhere. Add special tile rules like witch windows (teleporters) and sanctuaries to make your game truly unique. The AI opponent leverages advanced concepts from computer science and graph theory to understand and play against your custom creations.

When you share a board, your friends can also take on the AI. Each shared board gets its own web page, like this example: ChessCraft Design.

ChessCraft is completely free and ad-free, with the exception of occasional popups inviting you to become a ChessCraft Patron. As a patron, you'll enjoy uninterrupted gameplay. If you're a teacher, student, or facing financial constraints, simply send an email for a special access code.

Feel free to visit the website and send feedback or questions via email. If you enjoy the game, please leave a rating!

What's New in the Latest Version 1.16.23

Last updated on Oct 8, 2024

• Automatically apply transparency to your custom images.
• Double click designs to play or edit them.
• Added lots of internal debugging to help diagnose custom image problems.