What is it?

Infinite Chess is a variant of chess in which there are no borders, much larger than your familiar 8x8 board. The queen, rooks, and bishops have no limit to how far they can move per turn. Pick any natural number up to infinity!

With no limit to how far you can move, there are positions possible where the doomsday clock, or checkmate-in-blank, number is represented by the first infinite ordinal, omega ω. In fact, researchers have discovered that any countable ordinal is achievable for the checkmate clock!

As you can imagine, there are infinite possibilities for starting configurations, many of which you can play competitively! Your end goal is still checkmate, which requires new tactics seeing as there are no walls to trap the enemy king against. Games don't typically last much longer than normal chess games. Pawns also still promote at ranks 1 & 8!

How can I play?

The current version release is 1.6 on the Play page!

About the Project

I am Naviary. Since I first discovered Infinite Chess (the concept existed long before this website), I have been very intrigued by it and its possibilities! Up to just recently, playing has been quite difficult, requiring players to create images of the current board and send them back and forth for every move played. Due to this, not many people know about or have been able to play this.

It is my goal to build a way to make this easily playable for everyone and grow a community surrounding it. I have spent countless hours of my own time on this website, upkeeping it, and developing the game. I have many more ideas that will keep me occupied for some time. While I wish to keep this free to play, life has requirements. To help support me financially please consider joining my Patreon.

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