Chess

Chess is the classic 8×8 strategy game played here as a local two-player board. Each side starts with 16 pieces — one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights and eight pawns — and White moves first.

Click one of your pieces to select it, then click a destination square. The board validates each move against the real movement rules for that piece: pawns advance one square (two from their starting rank) and capture on the forward diagonal, rooks travel along ranks and files, bishops along diagonals, queens do both, knights jump in an L, and the king steps one square in any direction. Sliding pieces are blocked by anything standing in the path, and no piece may land on a square occupied by its own colour.

What this version deliberately keeps simple: it enforces piece movement and captures, but it does not run check, checkmate or stalemate detection, and castling, en passant and pawn promotion are not implemented. Treat it as a rules-faithful board for practising openings and tactics with a second person sitting next to you — you call the game's result yourselves.