A bigger board. New pieces. You can program it any way you want.
Super Chess 16x16 is a chess variant on a 256-square board with eleven unique piece types — the orthodox six (King, Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight, Pawn) plus five new super pieces (Prince, Princess, Archbishop, Super Knight, Fortress). Any piece can also be reprogrammed — you author its movement at runtime. Patent Pending.
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Why Super Chess 16x16
16 × 16 board, 256 squares
Four times the playing area of orthodox chess. Longer games, deeper tactics, more room for piece coordination.
Eleven unique piece types
The orthodox six (King, Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight, Pawn) plus five super pieces (Prince, Princess, Archbishop, Super Knight, Fortress). The Pawn also comes in a super-pawn variant; any piece can additionally be reprogrammed.
Pick your own colors
Forget black-and-white — chess has been stuck on those two colors for 1500 years and we are done with it. Each player chooses their own piece colors before the match begins: red vs blue, gold vs silver, neon vs noir, your country's flag, your favourite team, whatever fits the mood. Your army looks like your army. And there is no "white-moves-first" rule pinned to a specific color — the side that makes the first move is just a per-game setting, picked when you create the match.
Reprogram every piece
Every piece on your side — King, Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight, every one — can be reprogrammed by you. Click destination squares to teach a piece new moves. Both players do this independently; your Knight can move differently from theirs. Nothing else like it.
Play in the browser
Same engine as the desktop app. Mobile-ready. Fast, no plugins.
Member matches & tournaments
Sign up, get a rating, challenge other members, climb the leaderboard, enter tournaments.
Patent Pending
U.S. Provisional Patent Application filed for the data-driven piece-movement engine and the programmable-piece authoring subsystem.
How it works
- Sign up for your free 3-month trial (just username, email, password) — then play all you want in the browser, against the bot or live against other members.
- Get a rating and play live games against other members.
- Challenge a member from the Members list, or post an open challenge on the Matches page and the next online member can accept it.
- Win games, climb the leaderboard, enter monthly tournaments.
Questions before you sign up?
Email us first if you want to ask anything about how the site works, who can join, or how the programmable pieces are patented.
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