Play chess for two on one screen, with legal moves, checkmate, castling, promotion and captured pieces. Free, no account required.
One game. Two rivals.
How to play Chess
Play chess for two on one screen, with legal moves, checkmate, castling, promotion and captured pieces. Free, no account required.
A pawn moves one square forward, or two from its starting square if both squares are clear. It captures diagonally forward and never moves backwards.
A rook moves horizontally or vertically, a bishop diagonally, and a queen in all those directions. These pieces cannot jump over others.
A knight moves in an L: two squares in one direction and one perpendicular. It can jump over other pieces.
A king moves one square in any direction, but never into check. No move may leave your king in check. You cannot capture your own pieces.
To castle, select the king and a square two steps towards the rook. Neither piece may have moved and no pieces may stand between them. You cannot castle out of, through or into check.
En passant is available only immediately after an adjacent pawn advances two squares. A pawn reaching the last rank promotes to your choice of queen, rook, bishop or knight.
If in check, you must remove the threat to your king. No legal moves while in check means checkmate. No legal moves without check means stalemate and a draw.
In road-trip mode, the engine automatically declares a draw for threefold repetition, the fifty-move rule or insufficient mating material. Players may also agree a draw or resign.
Only legal moves are accepted. Players swap colours between games. Saving preserves move history, castling rights and repetitions. Chess is separate from the short road-trip tournament. Rules engine: chess.js, BSD-2-Clause licence.
Play together on one phone, tablet or computer. No account is needed; the current game and scores stay in this browser. Created by Tappix.