Checkmate Challenge
A chess arcade game where you play against the strongest chess engine in the world.
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A chess arcade game where you play against the strongest chess engine in the world.
ChessCorp - an indie puzzle game that takes you to a pixel art world to solve the mystery of your existence. Tackle AI-generated chess puzzles, develop your own thinking machine, and win the Grand Tournament. This is the only way.
Gambonanza is a turn-based chess roguelike, set on a tiny board with higher stakes. Master tactical twists, invest your winnings and discover new rule-bending Gambits, tile and piece combinations. Face off against challenging bosses and get lost in all the ways you can break traditional chess!
Save the forest in this improved version of chess with new boards with obstacles and power-ups.
ChessBlaze is a strategy game based on Chess but with a major twist: TURNS DO NOT EXIST! Who needs turns if you can have energy instead. Every move costs energy, no need to wait for opponents response. Some game-modes feature "PowerTiles". They offer unique abilities for pieces entering them!
A single player only PvE autobattler that is purely GUI (graphical user inteface). Keep or reroll dealt cards (units). Combine units to level them up. Upgrade items. Survive 50 randomized rounds that are highly replayable. No synergy system, no other maps/campaigns, no meta-progression.
Customize your board with a host of new pieces. Start with an aggressive forward assault, Or perhaps a defensive fortress designed to weather the storm. Will you outwit, outmanoeuvre, or out-explode your way to victory?
In this modern take on an ancient board game similar to Chess, one side must defend Odin against an onslaught of attackers as he makes his escape to one of the corners of the board. Use sharp strategy and tactics to help Odin reach safety before he is caught defenseless between multiple assailants!
MEGACHESS is a roguelite dungeon crawler with chess elements. Blast through high-paced tactical battles, adapt your army against outnumbering foes, craft and combine your units to form MEGA-PIECES and obliterate the bosses.
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
Chess remixed as a fast roguelike. You get 10 moves to beat a target score by chaining captures into big combos. Build around piece types or mechanics like cooldown, buy/upgrade passives and one-shot effects in the shop, tackle rule-twisting bosses and King Challenges.
Fat Fritz 2.0 is the successor to the revolutionary Fat Fritz, which was based on the famous AlphaZero algorithms. This new version takes chess analysis to the next level and is a must for players of all skill levels.
A chess-inspired roguelike with flash-inspired graphics. As King, accumulate and command your army across a series of procedurally generated train carts. Outsmart a variety of unique enemies, capture them, and add them to your army... but one wrong step, and you lose them forever!
chess...expect no more,no less.
Chess where familiar principles come together in new ways. New roles, unexpected synergies, and no luck—only cold calculation in a world of magic and monsters.
A brand new approach to Chess!
Play against a low level engine, simulating a 100 rated player, while completing challenges. Multiple difficulty modes make the game suitable for chess beginners and experts.
Master the Knight’s challenge! Move a knight across the 2D chessboard, visiting as many squares as possible within limited moves. Plan ahead, think like a strategist — are you a swift King or a true Knight?
A unique and casual chess experience with new rules and luck-based mechanics which requires fresh strategies, tactics, and ingenuity to conquer.
out maneuver your opponent without letting them leverage your own pieces against you. play against your friends or the computer to see if you can bring balance to the board.
This is Chess on a conveyor belt -- an ingenious roguelike, melding tactical strategy and explosive action! Deal with a mind-bending scrolling board that pulls towards you relentless waves of foes and perils. Prepare for their violent collision with your pieces. Prepare for TOTAL ZUGZWANG.
This is a moderately challenging single-player 2D puzzle game with approximately 100 levels. You control your piece to evade or capture other pieces, ultimately reaching the target point. Different pieces follow distinct movement logic. You must deduce these patterns through exploration.
Chess Bomb is a unique puzzle game where bombs take the shape of chess pieces. Strategically use these explosive chess bombs to fend off waves of invading monsters threatening the chess kingdom.
Escape custom chess boards with your king while your opponent hunts you down. Play campaigns, solve puzzles, compete locally or ranked online, and build your own puzzles and campaigns in the editor.
Blindfold Chess is a minimalist strategy game where you play chess entirely from memory. Practice with blindfold exercises, improve your visualization, and battle Stockfish AI or online players without ever seeing the board.
Wall Street meets street fighting! Engage in arcade-style trade duels where you buy low, sell high to drive your opponent into bankruptcy.
Checkmate Kings is a high-paced chess-like multiplayer bullet hell 👑 Shoot at your opponent, summon chess pieces, dash around the arena and crush the enemy king! Choose from 8 characters with unique playstyles and conquer the Kings Gauntlet!
2D action game where every click determines your survival! Enemy shapes - squares, circles and triangles - drop down from above and it's your job to destroy them before they overwhelm you. Each enemy has its own specific characteristics that force you to be ever vigilant and quick.
Try Boardfall for free! Progressively harder waves of enemies fall from the sky. Capture them to earn gold, and then purchase your own reinforcements to drop onto the board.
No more taking turns. Both players move at once in this tactical chess variant where military power-ups reshape the battlefield every round
ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard throughout the world. Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it.
Prove you're worthy of King's Challenge! Master items, navigation, and combat in over 30 levels of increasing difficulty! Many contenders have failed before. Will you be able to defeat King and claim the ultimate prize?
Fritz. Your chess trainer! Chess is fun with me! With AI help you learn to play brilliant winning games even as a beginner. Or play at professional level without help. Always with a humorous commentary. I also find opponents for you on the chess server and give you tactics training.
Chess meets Tetris in a series of handcrafted puzzles. Drop chess pieces to checkmate rival kings while avoiding checkmating your own. New to chess or a grandmaster, it doesn’t matter. The only way you’ll prevail is thinking outside of the board.
The ultimate chess variant roguelike game. Start with pieces and the board set up for the ancient precursor to chess, Chaturanga. Defeat progressively more sophisticated computer opponents and chess variants while leveling up your pieces to their modern equivalents and beyond into new faery pieces.
A Chess Roguelike where you combine your pieces to build a NUKE and annihilate the enemy Boss.
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