Chess with animated battles
Fighting Chess
Ivory Order against Obsidian Legion. A complete chess engine where every capture is fought rather than announced.
Opens a dedicated game view. Exit game brings you back here.
About the game
A complete chess engine underneath, with a fight animation on top. Take a piece and the two of them settle it: the cavalier charges, the sorceress throws chain lightning, the golem brings the ground up.
Four difficulties, a side to choose, a war log down the right, and a roster naming what each piece does. It is the shape a commission takes when the person it is for plays a game rather than remembers one.
- Playable chess engine
- Animated piece captures
- Four difficulty settings
How to play Fighting Chess
Click a piece to select it, then click a highlighted square to move. Everything else sits in the panel on the left.
Choose Play to open the game. Use Full screen in the player to hide browser controls where supported, or play with the game filling the window. Exit game returns to this page.
Play nowInside the build
How Fighting Chess was made
The chess rules and the battle presentation do different jobs. The engine decides which moves are legal and which piece has been captured. The animation then gives that capture a visible character: a cavalier charge, a spell or a golem’s strike.
The Ivory Order and Obsidian Legion supply two distinct rosters. A war log records moves in chess notation while a separate panel records captured pieces. Those details keep the board readable even when the battle effects are elaborate.
The interface includes a side selection and four difficulty settings. Its layout adapts to narrow screens, making this a different kind of commission example from the wide, side-scrolling platform games.
Screens & artwork
A closer look at the game’s characters, setting and presentation.
In motion
Questions about Fighting Chess
Does Fighting Chess still use chess rules?+
Yes. A chess engine handles the moves. The fight animation visualises a capture rather than replacing the rules with a separate combat game.
Can I choose the difficulty?+
Yes. The game offers four difficulty settings and lets you choose a side.
More games to explore
The Adventures of B Bear
A platformer whose hero is a real teddy bear, photographed in twenty-three poses and cut out frame by frame.
Tape Loader
A 60th birthday build that opens on a cassette loading screen and drops the birthday person into a bedroom in 1983.
Noodles, Cake & Elf
A 3D browser fighting game with four characters, painted stages, jumps, combos and local two-player battles. Explore the build and play Noodles, Cake & Elf.
More from the studio
A Fighting Game Starring Your Entire Friend Group
Every friend group is secretly a fighting game roster. The moves, the taunts, the ancient rivalries. Here is how the group chat becomes a hand-painted fighter.
5 Corporate Event Entertainment Ideas That Aren't a Quiz
Ideas for company milestones, launches and team celebrations that work on a mixed and partly reluctant audience.
One Christmas Gift for the Whole Family
Instead of adding to the pile, one gift the whole family actually shares. What works, what gathers dust, and why.