A project by John TibellSchackdagsChess on a living board.
The pieces breathe, worry when they're threatened and cheer each other on, and captured pieces sulk on the bench beside the board. Play right in the browser, on a phone or a computer, against fourteen opponents from completely lost to impossible. Free, in Swedish, and no account.
Choose your opponent
Fourteen opponents, each with a style and a voice of their own. Or a friend at the table, on the same screen.
At the table, or far apart
Send a link, and you sit at the same board, wherever you are.
One move when it suits you.
You play white on every board: make a move, and go on to the next.
An open arena every hour, round the clock, with a new opponent each time a game ends.
From the first move to the first game
Twelve short lessons with Max. You learn by moving the pieces yourself, one thing at a time.
- The board and the pieces
- The rook
- The bishop
- The queen
- The knight
- The pawn
- The king, and check
- Checkmate
- Castling
- En passant and promotion
- Stalemate and draws
- Your first game
The same puzzle for everyone in Sweden. Find the best move.
A famous game to play through, move by move, with the moment that decided it.
A chess word a day, explained in plain Swedish.
“Captured pieces sulk on the bench beside the board.”
It is chess, every rule of it, on a board that is alive: the pieces have moods, the opponents talk, and a good move gets a cheer.
