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Nearly a million recorded games from four centuries of chess, replayable move by move, with the real arguments in the comments.
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Chessgames.com sits in Board Games under Play, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Chess, draughts, connection games and modern board games ported honestly. Play a stranger or send a link to someone in another country.
Yes. Chessgames.com is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Chessgames.com without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Chessgames.com as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
Settlers of Catan in a browser tab, complete with the trade negotiations and the one player who will not give you wheat.
Free chess with no adverts, no account required and an analysis engine better than the paid ones, funded entirely by donations.
A quiet turn-based server for abstract strategy games — Hex, TwixT, Amazons — where matches last months and nobody rushes you.
The English-speaking world's Go server, where correspondence games run for weeks and somebody always explains why your move was bad.
Long branching novels where your stats matter and the prose does not embarrass itself; a good number play free in the browser.
Fourteen small experiments — spectrogram, harmonics, arpeggios — that explain how music works by letting you break it.
A history map with a timeline slider, layered with rulers, religions, battles and linked encyclopedia articles.
Scanned American newspapers from 1770 to 1963, full-text searchable, which is a dangerous thing to discover on a weeknight.
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