Local AI
Choose a strength and make a move. The other side answers on this device — or pass the screen for local two-player.
Move on this board · One game hereMove on this board · Puzzles stay local · One game here
You (White)
AI (Black)AI takes the other color. You can swap anytime before the first move.
Moves
Record
Local tally only. Wins, losses, and draws stay on this browser.
Below the board
Easy lets you look around after months away. Medium is a proper lunch fight. Hard digs in; Master thinks longer. None of them are titled players in a trench coat — they’re dials on a local worker. Same oak as home, with the difficulty knobs named out loud.
Easy through Master. Change it any time — the board does not make a fuss. Local 2-player hides the dials and lets a friend take the other color on this screen.
Replies are searched in a Web Worker on this device. No “connecting to engine” spinner that dies after thirty seconds.
A small local tally in this browser. Clear site data and the gossip goes with it — no cloud vault.
On this page
Some days you want a reply without waiting for anyone else to sit down. That’s what this page is for. Pick a strength, move a piece, and the other side answers on this device — not after a spinner that says “connecting to engine” for thirty seconds and then dies.
Easy is for rusty afternoons and first games after months away. Medium is the default mood: enough bite to punish a free queen, not so mean you resign on move twelve. Hard digs in. Master thinks longer. None of them are “FIDE rated.” They’re dials on a local worker, not a cloud coach with a monthly plan.
If someone is sitting next to you, flip to Local 2-player and pass the device. Same oak board. Same rules. The difficulty knobs just go quiet until you’re alone with the machine again.
When
Solo lunch. Practicing without chat. Checking whether you still hang queens for free. A short game when you don’t want to commit to a stranger’s clock. Same-screen play when a classmate wants the black pieces for ten minutes.
When not
You only want the sharp tactical moment — go to puzzles and skip the opening noise. You still mix up bishops and knights — start on how to play, then come back on Easy. You wanted fifty other browser games in a neon grid — wrong house; we only do chess here.
Defaults
Standard Western rules. White moves first unless you swap colors before the first move. Difficulty changes how deep the worker looks and how greedy it gets — not a magic “always win” cheat code. Record is a small local tally in this browser. Clear site data and the gossip goes with it. Sound stays off until you poke it.
Steps
Worked notes
Watch-outs
Why this URL
The homepage is already a playable game. This page exists because searchers often want the difficulty sermon labeled out loud — Easy, Medium, Hard — before they touch a pawn. Same engine family as home. Fewer adjectives about the rest of the house. More knobs on the fight itself.
If you landed here from a school filter day, you’re still looking at one chessboard, not a directory. Unblocked has its own door when that’s the mood. Here the mood is: pick a strength and play.
Under the hood
Moves are checked and replies are searched in a Web Worker so the page doesn’t freeze while you stare at the oak. That matters on a tired laptop. It also means there’s no account tether and no “engine online” badge pretending a distant server is your coach.
You’ll still lose games. Local doesn’t mean soft. It means the thinking stays near the board you can see.
Next doors
Puzzles drop you into one sharp position — fork, pin, quiet mate — without the opening parade. How to play is for the friend who still thinks knights slide like bishops. Openings for beginners is three habits, not a Sicilian farm. Come back here when you want the long fight again.
Nearby pages
Home: same engine, fewer knobsPuzzles: short tactical fightsHow to play: rules before the bruiseOpenings: first habits, not a library
Controls
Vs AI locks the difficulty row; Local 2-player hides it and lets you pass the device. New game clears the fight. Undo steps back while you practice. Hint suggests a move when we can explain the idea. Sound stays muted until you turn it on — libraries exist. Fullscreen is for when the rest of the desktop is noise.
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