A hundred chess levels, and the opponent gets stronger with every one of them. Click a piece and every move it may make lights up; click a lit square and the piece goes there.
It starts gently. On the first levels the opponent plays with a handicap — without a queen, without knights, or with nothing but a king and pawns — so a first game is winnable. From there the strength climbs level by level, from around 150 ELO to 1900, and every stage of ten levels brings a board of its own: pine, olive, walnut, marble, ink, emerald, plum, graphite, glass and obsidian.
There is help for every skill level. A hint button suggests a good move, your own pieces blink red when they are under attack, and any move can be taken back. Two dice decide who opens the game. Every game you win is kept as a board you can look at again, with your time and your stars.
Available in 22 languages.
Chess engine: js-chess-engine by Josef Jadrny, MIT licence.
Music: "Only silence remains" by zero-project (https://zero-project.gr), licensed CC BY 4.0.
Also available as .deb, RPM, Flatpak, AppImage and for Arch at www.budbrain.de
Developed by Vera and Josef Sejrek / Budbrain Software Contact: chess@budbrain.de
Keywords: chess, board game, strategy, levels, single player, offline, beginner, club player, classic, relaxing
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On Arch Linux, snap can be installed from the Arch User Repository (AUR). The manual build process is the Arch-supported install method for AUR packages, and you’ll need the prerequisites installed before you can install any AUR package. You can then install snap with the following:
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