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CHESS — full rules, own engine

Complete chess with castling, en passant, promotion, the 50-move and threefold repetition rules. Face a three-level bot or a friend on one device.

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Chess

Board game · Chess · 1–2 players (bot or same device) · 5–20 min · free · no download · no sign-up

Chess is the classic battle of two armies on an 8×8 board; the goal is to checkmate the enemy king. This version implements every official rule: castling (short and long), en passant, pawn promotion (choose queen, rook, bishop or knight), stalemate, the 50-move rule, threefold repetition and insufficient-material draws. The bot’s engine was written from scratch for this site: it searches deeply with alpha-beta pruning and quiescence search, and the move generator passed the standard perft verification tests of chess programming — so the rules are exact. The easy bot is quick and careless, normal thinks ahead, hard calculates deep. You can also play two players on one device.

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Is the engine correct — does the bot cheat?
The engine was written from scratch for this site and verified with perft tests: on known positions every move count matches exactly (e.g. 197,281 nodes at depth 4 from the start). The bot only uses what is on the board; there is no hidden information.

Which draw rules are implemented?
Stalemate, the 50-move rule, threefold repetition and insufficient material (such as king and bishop versus king) are all automatic draws.

How strong are the bots?
Easy thinks briefly and sometimes plays loosely; normal searches about half a second, hard about 1.5 seconds. The hard bot spots forks and tactical traps several moves ahead.

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