ChessCraft

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4.4
10.6K reviews
500K+
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Content rating
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!
Updated on
Jan 12, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.5
9.68K reviews
nur achmad mirza
January 21, 2025
I'm just like the game, but there is a different way to crash the game. Scrolling up and down, picking 4, 5, 6, and 7 difficulty computer, spam the randomize board button, and making the hardest board and fight with AI until it crash your game. There's also a bug if you rotate your garb image, it's sometimes slightly turned bigger. Oh, also the "garb" folder says it has 15 folders in it, but it's actually 13. The missing folders in the "garb" folder is the Celtic and Calendar folder.
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Frame of Mind
January 15, 2025
Thanks! The next time this happens, could you tell me the exact time (hours, minute, second) that this happened? I can look at the detailed logs, but only if I can find you among lots of other players: [email protected]
James Blodgett
January 9, 2025
I 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.
7 people found this review helpful
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Frame of Mind
January 15, 2025
Search is a good idea. Also, that sounds like a bug. Sorry to hear that. The more bugs I fix, the ones that remain are especially elusive. I may be asking a lot here, but if you can reliably reproduce this, especially with a clean install, that would be extremely helpful to me. [email protected]
Alex
December 8, 2024
I had Chesscraft a long time ago and I felt like the only problem was that I could add any pictures. But with the new update with pictures and folders, I feel like it's perfect! I personally never liked Adventure Mode, but it's great for building new strategies and challenging yourself to new game modes. I would definitely recommend this app if your trying to build a new and original boardgame or to strategize with boards that could be difficult in a chess game. Also, the bots are great practice
11 people found this review helpful
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Frame of Mind
January 15, 2025
Thanks! Glad to hear those new features are working well for you. Usually I only hear about problems ;)

What’s new

Bug fixes.
User interface improvements.
Fixed ghost appearance.
Added graphics for special days.