Show HN: Chess site with 30 combinable variants, including möbius chess

1 mannymakes 0 6/9/2025, 6:08:47 AM mchess.io ↗

mchess.io (Meta-variant Chess) is an indie project friends and I developed some years back now. We've recently had motivation to introduce bot players and think it's in a state that's worth showing off to more people.

I made a youtube short for what we're calling the beta release: https://youtube.com/shorts/r9GZ59pxEM0?si=7ZRz_bPScI0xYRra

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Show HN: Chess site with 30 combinable variants, including möbius chess

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