Chase®
Play Now — 100% Free
Chase®
Play Now — 100% Free
It's chess having fun!®
You and your opponent build the board as you play, tile by tile, restricting movements in order to trap each other — without trapping yourself in the process.
100% Free, in your browser right now. No ads, no email, no download.
This is the real game, opened at the tutorial section's overview. Press Next and watch it play itself.
Cramped in a frame? Open it full size.
The object of the game is to jump, sweep and block your opponent and collect debts so that their pawns have no legal moves left. No pawn is ever taken off the board; the gold moves instead, and a player who owes more than they hold has lost.
Try it right now in your browser: in one move, earn the most gold you can.
Cramped in a frame? Open it full size.
(Because we want you to have fun and share it with your friends.)
Start a game for someone else to join. Choose which type and who can join. Or play the computer, or two can play on one screen.
Every game gets a list of its turning points: the moves where the lead changed hands, and what the gold was after each one.
Press one and the replay jumps straight to it. You don't have to mark anything up. It works this out on its own.
Every game you finish becomes an object. Turn it over, look through it, and see the whole shape of what happened in one go.
This one is real: eighty-five turns. Drag it around. Click any element of the crystal and the board opens at that moment.
Watch any game again, as fast or as slow as you like. Send the link to anyone and it just opens. They don't need an account and it plays right in their browser instantly.
Found the move that lost it? Stop there and play it out again the other way, against the computer or a friend.
Classic (next tile), Tile Drafting (pick from the next three tiles), and Inception (the tiles you used to jump an opponent change direction when you land). Same rules, three different modes.
Your win rate, mostly, plus credit for the games you won from behind. Leading the whole way earns you nothing extra, but showing true grit in your gameplay does.
Chase® Chess was invented by a 5 year-old girl (4-and-a-half, really) while playing with ducks in the shower on tiles whose intersections were like circuits for ducks to pass or be blocked by. After some months, her father realized that the novel game could be played on a chess board. As the game evolved, she would go on to suggest the game's style, using color, directional function, and many of its rules to make it what it is today.
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