Simple Chess AI
Mouse + Touch
Drag your white pieces to make a move; the AI replies as black. Checkmate the computer.
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Simple Chess AI
@chesscafe · 34 plays · strategy · ~15 min
29% enjoyedMouse + ToucheveryoneHTML5 / JavaScript
Play chess as white against a small minimax AI with alpha-beta pruning, built on chessboard.js and chess.js.
About this game
This open-source game is published on PLAY from the original project by Lauri Hartikka under the Apache-2.0 license. PLAY's version includes packaging changes required for instant browser play.
- Original project
- Simple Chess AI
- Created by
- Lauri Hartikka
- Originally released
- 2017
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Source code
- Version 665606d · Apache-2.0 requires keeping the copyright and license notice; PLAY ships LICENSE with the game and shows it on the game page.
- Curated by
- Chess Café, a PLAY curation channel
- On PLAY since
- Oct 16, 2026 (PLAY version 1)
PLAY's version is the original project's files, packaged for instant browser play: a PLAY-CREDITS.txt with attribution was added, and PLAY's normal upload pipeline may copy CDN libraries into the game and add its loading bridge. Gameplay and assets are unchanged.
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