
Challenge 20 chess masters from around the world to duels across the board. Defeat them one by one, prove your skills, and fight your way to the top to become the ultimate CHECKBORNE Champion.
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Challenge 20 chess masters from around the world to duels across the board. Defeat them one by one, prove your skills, and fight your way to the top to become the ultimate CHECKBORNE Champion.

Enkhbayar's Olympiad Chess: Multi-Board Team Matches
Olympiad Chess evolves classical chess into a unified 4v4 team sport. Across shared middle ranks, pieces migrate between boards to flank opponents and save teammates. A true multi-board competitive variant built to completely revolutionize FIDE team chess format!

Chex
Chex is a strategic board game currently based on Gliński's hexagonal variant of chess. Players must use their pieces to capture their opponent's king. The hexagonal board introduces new challenges and opportunities.
Olympiad Chess evolves classical chess into a unified 4v4 team sport. Across shared middle ranks, pieces migrate between boards to flank opponents and save teammates. A true multi-board competitive variant built to completely revolutionize FIDE team chess format!
Why similar: Chess 52.4% ★, Board Game 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Strategy 6.7%, PvP 3.8%
Chex is a strategic board game currently based on Gliński's hexagonal variant of chess. Players must use their pieces to capture their opponent's king. The hexagonal board introduces new challenges and opportunities.
Why similar: Chess 55.8% ★, Board Game 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Strategy 6.2%, Tabletop 6.2%
Lead ten animal armies in 3D chess. Challenge the computer across five difficulties or play a friend locally. Learn with Danger Sense and 100 guided lessons, solve 100 mate-in-two puzzles, and conquer the nine-battle Gauntlet.
Why similar: Chess 56.7% ★, Board Game 16.1%, Local Multiplayer 10.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Family Friendly 2.5%
3D Chess Online combines the magical world of chess with a modern and three-dimensional experience! Determine your strategy and fight against your opponents worldwide in this simulator equipped with realistic graphics.
Why similar: Chess 46.8% ★, Board Game 16%, Strategy 9.1%, Local Multiplayer 7.8%, Tabletop 6.9%
Chess... chess never changes. How much can you do?! It's time for something new - a combination of chess and snake!
Why similar: Chess 53.9% ★, Board Game 15.5%, Strategy 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%, Tabletop 5.6%
Four Kings One War is a 1 or 2 player strategy game inspired by chess. Each player controls two armies as though they were one and get's two moves per turn. This opens up guerrilla style tactics and hidden attacks. This is strategy for the modern mind, outside the 64th square.
Why similar: Chess 47% ★, Strategy 24.5%, Board Game 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Indie 0.8%
Chess, but with wizards. Every piece has HP and Attack and spell cards bend the rules. Outplay a friend in hotseat, over LAN, or online and climb the leaderboard.
Why similar: Chess 48.4% ★, Board Game 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Strategy 7.4%, Local Multiplayer 5.2%
At the turn of the century, Fritz fascinated the chess world with victories over Garry Kasparov and then-reigning World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The "most popular chess program" offers you everything you will need as a dedicated chess enthusiast.
Why similar: Chess 63% ★, Board Game 20%, Strategy 12.3%, 3D 2%, 2D 1.9%
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
Why similar: Chess 48.7% ★, Board Game 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Strategy 7.5%, Tabletop 5.2%
Welcome to the Chess Game of Tomorrow!
Why similar: Chess 48.8% ★, Board Game 18.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Strategy 9.6%, Family Friendly 2.3%
Face the demon queen Lilith in high-stakes, asymmetrical chess matches. Capture all of her pieces, EXCEPT ONE! Carefully sacrifice your own pieces, use special items, and outthink Lilith’s unpredictable moves to gain the upper hand.
Why similar: Chess 56.8% ★, Board Game 14.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.6%
Play with living, battling characters! Combat Chess takes the basic chess game and adds an imaginative element for players. Beautifully done in rendered 3D graphics, Combat Chess adds stunning animation sequences during gameplay.
Why similar: Chess 56.5% ★, Board Game 12.6%, Strategy 7.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.9%, Tabletop 3.9%
Not a chess. It is a war strategy. Tamerlane Chess is the digital version of the board Timur used to shape his battlefield tactics. With a larger board, unique pieces, and deep strategy, every move demands the mindset of a true commander.
Why similar: Chess 46.8% ★, Board Game 14.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.9%, Local Multiplayer 5.7%
The world's most popular board game enhanced with unique pieces, various maps and new game modes. Experience gorgeous graphics, engaging campaign, challenging puzzles and diverse battles.
Why similar: Chess 50.4% ★, Board Game 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Strategy 7.5%, Local Multiplayer 5.5%
MetaChess is chess that lets you build your own army and rewrite the board. With alternate roles for every piece, it creates billions of new possible games possibilities. No more memorized openings, no more solved meta. Every decision matters. Outdraft, outthink, and outplay your opponent.
Why similar: Chess 55.2% ★, Board Game 18.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8%, Strategy 7.7%, PvP 4.2%
Play in the dark or under open skies. Sharp Chess is a clean, distraction-free chess experience — Stockfish AI, nature and dark themes. At home or on the go with Steam Deck.
Why similar: Chess 62% ★, Board Game 20.3%, Strategy 13%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Passant is a chess roguelike that changes all the rules. Progress through challenging rounds while collecting powerful pieces and game-changing items to seize victory.
Why similar: Chess 58.2% ★, Board Game 11.5%, Strategy 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 2.6%
Caîssa Board is a graphical chess user interface that is evolving toward becoming an online chess club.
Why similar: Chess 51.7% ★, Board Game 18.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Tabletop 6.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.8%
GoblinChess is a new type of chess game where we introduce ten different magical cards to the gameplay, and some chaos if you want. You can play online or against the built in robot.
Why similar: Chess 49.8% ★, Board Game 17.8%, Strategy 12.8%, Tabletop 4.9%, Local Multiplayer 4.4%
If regular chess has become stale and you're looking for a unique, new challenge, Chess++ is the game for you! Play a game against the AI in a chess board with 3 dimensions, new movesets, and new rules.
Why similar: Chess 59.2% ★, Board Game 20.1%, Strategy 17.2%, 3D 2.4%, Singleplayer 1%
Sans Issue is a 2D game mixing chess and card-deck building. Use cards to summon new pieces, move your pieces in new ways, and change the board's terrain. Earn new cards via the campaign, create custom decks using the deckbuilder, and play against your friends both locally and over Steam.
Why similar: Chess 53% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Board Game 10.5%, Strategy 8.3%, Local Multiplayer 5.3%
Je Di Bo is a chaotic, deep turn-based card strategy where chess-like logic meets unpredictability. Move pieces, upgrade their ranks, and dominate the board. But beware: every 7 turns, Karma rolls the dice and completely changes the rules of engagement. Can you outsmart the chaos?
Why similar: Chess 40.1% ★, Board Game 21.1%, Strategy 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Tabletop 7.4%
There are NO TURNS in this wild version of Chess! Pieces move across the board in real-time, so you'll need to think fast to protect your King!
Why similar: Chess 57.1% ★, Board Game 18.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Local Multiplayer 7%, PvP 3.2%
Chess on hexagonal field with local play, online multiplayer & against AI. Based on Gliński's chess variant.
Why similar: Chess 48.5% ★, Board Game 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%, Strategy 7.4%, Tabletop 5.8%
It took 2,000 years for someone to make chess better! The most challenging game on earth comes to life in Battle Chess. An entire medieval world at war is reflected on the checkered field. Everyone who's ever had a knight take a pawn has seen that capture as more than one piece replacing another on the board.
Why similar: Chess 52.3% ★, Board Game 26.9%, Strategy 12.7%, Tabletop 8.2%
Study piece movements, checkmate conditions and tactics; learn Janggi inside out! Solve endgame puzzles and play against AI opponents, perfecting your Janggi strategy.
Why similar: Chess 58.8% ★, Board Game 18.6%, Strategy 12.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.3%, Family Friendly 2.8%
A unique and casual chess experience with new rules and luck-based mechanics which requires fresh strategies, tactics, and ingenuity to conquer.
Why similar: Chess 51.5% ★, Board Game 17.3%, Strategy 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.3%
A new outlook on the classic strategy game, battle your way to winning.
Why similar: Chess 59.5% ★, Board Game 15.3%, Strategy 12.7%, Local Multiplayer 6.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.1%
Play Classic chess expanded with 9 unique classes, Mana, spells, traps and passive abilities. Outsmart your opponent, create unexpected positions, compete online across PC and mobile.
Why similar: Chess 54.4% ★, Board Game 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Strategy 10.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.4%
A casual puzzle played with 4 sided chits with a swords or a shield on an edge played on a classic chess board. when chits clash they may rotate or capture the other, your objective is to capture the crown chits, there are 4 on both sides.
Why similar: Chess 59.9% ★, Board Game 25.5%, Strategy 12.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%
Bring chess to life in a fantasy battlefield where every capture becomes an animated duel. Command mythical armies, outmaneuver your opponent, and experience the timeless strategy of chess through cinematic combat and immersive 3D boards.
Why similar: Chess 37.5% ★, Board Game 30.8%, Strategy 17.8%, Local Multiplayer 9.3%, 3D 3.2%
You know how the pieces move. You don't know how they die. A chess roguelike where every piece bleeds. Level them, perk them or lose them forever. Take the enemy King's head, or bleed their army dry. One path saves you. One damns you. Hell keeps score.
Why similar: Chess 67.2% ★, Board Game 15.5%, Strategy 10.2%, PvP 2.5%, Tabletop 2.4%
Save the forest in this improved version of chess with new boards with obstacles and power-ups.
Why similar: Chess 56.5% ★, Strategy 8.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%, Board Game 6.6%, Local Multiplayer 5.7%
Enter the mafia underworld of 2D Chess, where animals take on the roles of mob bosses. Play 10+0 minute games online on the Lichess server. Analyze your moves with Stockfish. Checkmate with style in this captivating cartel-themed chess adventure!
Why similar: Chess 62% ★, Board Game 17.8%, Strategy 13.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.1%, 2D 1.5%
Thumper Chess is a free to play chess game with basic animated pieces. Better looking and more fun chess sets, maps, animations, etc... are available in cheap DLC content.
Why similar: Chess 50.9% ★, Board Game 26.2%, Strategy 19.8%, 3D 3.1%
This project was inspired by Oats Jenkins' video on Youtube titled "I Made a BETTER Chess". In their video, they revised the pieces and rules. This project is that idea, turned into a video game!
Why similar: Chess 52.9% ★, Board Game 17.5%, Strategy 7.8%, Tabletop 6.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.9%
A chess game where you can combine your own pieces by capturing them. The combined piece moves as both pieces that got combined or with new rules when combining two pieces of same type. It's improving chess by making it more exciting & dynamic.
Why similar: Chess 44.9% ★, Board Game 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, Local Multiplayer 7.4%, Strategy 6.7%
A roguelike chess game where players see how far one set of pieces will take them. A short, run based game that respects the classic, but with a few fun twists. Compete against friends and the world on the leaderboards, how far will you go?
Why similar: Chess 62.6% ★, Board Game 18.1%, Strategy 12.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.2%, 2D 1.6%
A chess-based roguelike tactics game where you empower pieces with cards, build tag synergies, and shape each run through strategic choices.
Why similar: Chess 58% ★, Board Game 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Strategy 7.2%, 3D 2.1%
Play the ancient game of "Hnefatafl" in style on your PC, in Singleplayer mode against the AI or Multiplayer over the internet. "Hnefatafl" is a strategic, chess-like boardgame with assumed origins all the way back to the Viking era.
Why similar: Chess 45.4% ★, Board Game 21.3%, Strategy 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%, Indie 2.5%
From piece movements, to drops, promotion and strategic formations, you'll learn Shogi inside out! Play against a wide variety of AI opponents, developing your Shogi playing style.
Why similar: Chess 57.8% ★, Board Game 19.5%, Strategy 15.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 5%, 2D 1.6%
RanaRangam reimagines chess as a tactical battle of health, attacks, and step-by-step commands. Instead of instant captures, pieces can be commanded to any valid tile and then advance one step per turn, turning movement, combat, and board control into a deeper tactical battle.
Why similar: Chess 46% ★, Board Game 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Local Multiplayer 8.1%, Strategy 7.2%
An exciting and fast-paced chess roguelite, full of ridiculous abilities! Explode your opponent's pieces, spawn queens all over the board, move twice in a row... But watch out for the bosses, who have crazy powers of their own!
Why similar: Chess 59.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Board Game 10.9%, Strategy 7.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 5%
A playable Chess board that visualizes where each piece can go and what every move does
Why similar: Chess 51.9% ★, Board Game 16%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Strategy 7.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.8%
The World has united their strongest Grandmasters to challenge us! But they forget one thing: the Soviet School of Chess has no equal. Take your seat, comrade. It is time to show the globe who truly rules the 64 squares!
Why similar: Chess 65.8% ★, Board Game 11.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 7%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.8%
Whether you’re a beginner or a veteran, this fully featured chess game from Capstone has all the tools and features you need to learn and master the game of chess. Challenge an opponent with five adjustable skill levels from beginner to grandmaster.
Why similar: Chess 48.5% ★, Board Game 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Tabletop 6.7%
Cute Chess is all the fun of regular chess but with cute little characters, scene designs and music to make the game even more fun. Improve your chess skills by practising against computers with a range of different difficulties or take your skills online and compete against friends.
Why similar: Chess 62% ★, Board Game 17.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Tabletop 5.3%, PvP 2.2%
Learn chess by reliving the greatest games of all time. Train with 70+ tutorials, 150+ puzzles, and interactive quests where you guess the moves of legends like Tal, Fischer, and Carlsen. Includes variants, analysis tools, and 2D/3D boards.
Why similar: Chess 55.1% ★, Board Game 19.7%, Strategy 10.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.9%, Local Multiplayer 3.6%
A fantasy chess variant. An enchanted board where pawns hide magical secrets. Hatch dragons, transform enemy pieces into unicorns. Outwit clever computer opponents: Jester, Bard, or Wizard —or pass and play. Beginner-friendly to deliciously strategic. Handcrafted pixel art. Local gameplay, so retro!
Why similar: Chess 55.5% ★, Board Game 13.2%, Strategy 9.1%, Local Multiplayer 7.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.3%
Customize your board with a host of new pieces. Start with an aggressive forward assault, Or perhaps a defensive fortress designed to weather the storm. Will you outwit, outmanoeuvre, or out-explode your way to victory?
Why similar: Chess 54.3% ★, Board Game 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Strategy 9.7%, PvP 4.6%
Do you think chess is a man's game, comrade? THINK AGAIN! The Soviet Queens are here to crush your ego and show you true elegance on the board. Enroll NOW!
Why similar: Chess 58.2% ★, Board Game 16.5%, Strategy 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 2.9%
Command history on a chessboard. Unique piece stats shape your strategy, while dynamic Board Effects can turn the battle in an instant. Create custom matches, challenge your friends, and experiment with different piece sets to fight your way.
Why similar: Chess 44.8% ★, Board Game 16%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.4%
Isometric Chess is a challenging chess variant that expands the game into the third dimension in a unique way.
Why similar: Chess 30.9% ★, Board Game 26.9%, Strategy 19.1%, Local Multiplayer 10.1%, PvP 5.3%
Enjoy a pure, distraction-free chess experience with Just Chess! Includes a built-in engine, UCI support and engine profiles, and a Puzzle Arena with 4M+ puzzles. Lichess integration lets you challenge players, play Chess960, and watch live games and broadcasts.
Why similar: Chess 58.7% ★, Board Game 19.2%, Tabletop 5.9%, Strategy 5%, PvP 4.7%
Vantageous is a competitive board game, where you have to strategize your piece placement, stack your pieces to increase their range and outsmart your opponent. You can play on the same device, online or against the computer! Play against your friends or challenge the rank ladder!
Why similar: Chess 45.2% ★, Board Game 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%, Strategy 7.3%, Tabletop 7.1%
Master Xiangqi anytime! Thrilling games, custom boards & challenging AI.
Why similar: Chess 58.4% ★, Board Game 16.1%, Strategy 9.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 5%, Local Multiplayer 4.7%
A chess game where you lead a customizable fantasy army through 1,500 levels of curated puzzles. Face checkpoint commanders in full matches, recruit new races, and customize your hero and army. Key chess concepts encountered are logged in a Sage Ledger for education and future reference.
Why similar: Chess 61.1% ★, Board Game 17%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.2%, Strategy 7.2%, Tabletop 2.9%