Free chess, chess variants and checkers: play the computer or a friend

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The classic game with all official rules. Play against the computer at five levels.

The pieces on the back rank are placed at random (960 possible positions), so memorized openings do not help.

Chess where every piece you capture joins your reserve and can be dropped back onto the board.

Move your king to one of the four center squares to win at once. Everything else is normal chess.

Give check three times to win. Everything else is normal chess, so every check counts.

Captures are compulsory, and you win by losing all your pieces or by being stalemated.

Every capture explodes: the captured and capturing pieces and the pieces around them disappear. Blow up the enemy king to win.

A huge horde of pawns attacks a normal army. White has no king and tries to checkmate; Black tries to capture every White piece.

Race your king to the eighth rank. Giving check is not allowed.

Russian draughts with compulsory captures and flying kings. Five computer levels.

Nothing to pay, no account and no app to install. Games against the computer run in your browser and are not stored on our servers.

Works on phones, tablets and computers, in 11 languages, with large touch-friendly controls.

Every move is checked by a proper rules engine, so illegal moves are impossible.

A genuine chess engine and a search-based draughts engine think on your device, with five difficulty levels.

Chess, Chess960, Crazyhouse, King of the Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic, Horde, Racing Kings and Russian checkers.

Send a link and play in real time, with a clock or without. Anyone else who opens the link can only watch.