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Free Chess Games Online
7 free chess games, all
playable straight in the browser.
Standard chess against an adaptive engine is the centre of this collection, in a flat board and in 3D. Around it sit the chess families that most Western sites leave out: Xiangqi, the Chinese game played on the lines rather than the squares with a river between the armies; Junqi, where both sides move face-down pieces and rank is revealed only on contact; and Animal Chess, the small jungle board where a rat beats an elephant.
There is also a daily tactics page for people who want the pattern practice without the game: a fresh position each day where one line wins material or mates. Every board runs against the computer, so there is nobody to wait for and no clock unless the game sets one.
Chess questions
Can I play chess against the computer for free here?
Yes. Every chess game on this page runs against a computer opponent, free, with no download and no account.
What is Xiangqi?
Xiangqi is Chinese chess. Pieces sit on the intersections rather than inside the squares, a river splits the board, and each general is confined to a nine-point palace. The goal is the same: checkmate the other general.
Is there a way to practise chess tactics rather than play a whole game?
Yes. Daily Chess Tactics gives you one position per day where a concrete tactic wins, and Xiangqi Endgame Puzzles does the same for Chinese chess.
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