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Online computer chess games4/19/2024 ![]() ![]() I plan to get a Pegasus and leave it on my desk as a permanent fixture. I need to haul the Pro out to the kitchen table to use it. Tournament sized is a little too unwieldy on my desk. Everything has worked as advertised with no hiccups. Over 10,000 positions, all taken from actual games. I’ve played on and Lichess with no issues at all. Get feedback on sub-optimal moves and receive an endgame rating. My board also rolls out flat but it’s brand new so I don’t know if it’ll change. I haven’t had any of the issues that guy had. The Pegasus seems to be similar but smaller, I'm still curious to see how it plays. The only problem is it doesn't work online lol. The pieces are weighted but feel pretty cheap on the bottom. I have the DGT centaur board and that thing works perfectly and effortlessly. The person had trouble registering some moves and had to press or replace the piece on the square a couple times. ![]() I saw a demo of that board but it seems pretty flaky. It works great on and Lichess as well as their own chess server with Square Off players only. I tended to like HIARCS and Delfi Trainer (DT is no longer available, except for the. There are LEDs in the board that light up and tell you your opponents move. The more natural engines tend to be commercial engines (that is, not free). It’s not one of Square Off’s goofy self-moving boards. Board + smartphone = exactly what OP was looking for. You may play this game embedded in the above iframe or click here to view it in a separate browser window by itself.I’ve been using the Square Off Pro board over the last couple of days. Kings can also make the special move castling, where it moves two squares left or right toward a Rook and the Rook is moved in to the square the King just crossed. Kings: Kings can move one square in any direction as long as the square they are moving to is not under attack.Queens: Queens move horizontally, vertically, or diagonally any number of squares, though they do not jump other pieces.Rooks also move as part of the special Castling move. Rooks: Rooks can move horizontally or vertically any number of squares, though they do not jump other pieces.Bishops: Bishops can move diagonally in any direction any number of squares, though they do not jump other pieces.When Knights move they are able to jump over intermediate positions. Knights: Knights move in an 'L' shape, where they move two squares horizontally or vertically & one square in the other direction.Pawns also have a special move named En Passant, which allows them to capture an opposing pawn which is paralle to them while jumping forward at an angle to another cell. When pawns capture opposing pieces they move forward at a diagonal rather than directly forward. Pawns: Pawns move one space directly forward, though you can move them 2 pieces forward as their first move. ![]() If you play against the computer your score is based on how quickly you play. The game shows a counter clock in the bottom right for the first player & a play clock in the upper left for the computer or second player. The game ends via stalemate (when one player can not make a valid move) or checkmate (when one player has the other player in check and can not move the king out of check). Players move any of their 16 pieces per standard chess rules. The playing grid consists of a 8x8 grid of 64 cells. The first player controls the white pieces & the computer or second player control the black pieces. When playing against the computer you can set the difficulty at 1, 2, or 3 stars. Select single player to play against the computer, or select two players to play against another human computer sharing your computer. Try the game in it's own window by clicking here. You can play this game on computers powered by the Microsoft Windows operating system, the Apple OS X Mac operating system, and mobile phones like the iPhone powered by iOS or Google Android powered Samsung. These games are rendered using JavaScript and a mobile-friendly HTML design, so they work on desktop computers, laptops like the Google Chromebook, tablets like the iPad or Amazon Kindle Fire, and mobile devices like the iPhone. Almost every game in our collection was created using a game building tool named Construct. ![]()
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