Actual chess, against actual people.
Chess on TurdQuest: real games against real people, with clocks, ratings and spectators — plus an engine that plays like somebody you know, and 7,599 puzzles on one ladder everybody climbs in the same order.
It is not on the menu. The Gambit opens by solving a position, and the position is on the leaderboard.
BUILT ON
Stockfish
— the engine you practise against, running in your own browser.
GPL-3.0, via stockfish.js.
Licence.
python-chess by Niklas Fiekas — decides every move on the server. GPL-3.0.
cm-chessboard by Stefan Haack — the board itself. MIT. Licence.
Piece artwork from the cm-chessboard sprites, after Colin M.L. Burnett.
Puzzles from the Lichess open puzzle database — real positions, rated by the players who solved them. CC0.
Everything this site is built on →
python-chess by Niklas Fiekas — decides every move on the server. GPL-3.0.
cm-chessboard by Stefan Haack — the board itself. MIT. Licence.
Piece artwork from the cm-chessboard sprites, after Colin M.L. Burnett.
Puzzles from the Lichess open puzzle database — real positions, rated by the players who solved them. CC0.
Everything this site is built on →