Chess Reforged

PLAY AT YOUR PACE

Engine Match

Choose your army, color, and opponent strength.

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ChessBlack pieces
ENGINE
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ChaturangaPlusWhite pieces Β· moves first
YOU
Choose your army, then start a game.

YOUR SEAT AT THE BOARD

Player info

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Use your Chess.com or Lichess rapid rating as a starting point. The site learns your overall skill and your proficiency with each army separately. Matchmaking also accounts for the strength of the two armies. Your first game with a new army starts from your overall skill, with room to adjust as you play. You can set this before your first online game; your ratings are visible only to you in Player info.

No email or password needed. Your browser remembers your player identity. Clearing site data will reset your rating and username unless you have recovery code.

Keep your identity

Save a private recovery code to restore this player on another browser or after clearing site data. Anyone with the code can use your account.

Restore an existing player

This switches the player remembered in this browser.

Power Creep rules

Four armies share a 9 Γ— 10 board. White moves first. Win by checkmate, stalemating the opposing royal, or leaving the opponent with only their royal.

Each army has its own movements and promotion choices. When a move can either promote or remain unchanged, choose the form you want. Infiltration transforms the standby Ninja into its active form.

Palace-bound pieces stay inside their own gold palace. River and territory rules follow the army’s design. Threefold repetition and the fifty-move rule are draws. Takebacks are available in engine practice.

Explore the armies and their pieces β†’

A NEW POSSIBILITY

Choose your promotion.

Start a fresh game?

Your current game will be replaced.